Receivingto ship,one floor.
Six steps from incoming dock to ship dock. Seventy tanks, a NADCAP wet-chem lab, and an NDT room — under one roof, audited as one envelope.
Incoming
Parts arrive, drawings are read, every requirement is recorded against the order. Pre-process inspection catches anything that would have failed downstream before a single tank gets touched.
- Print + spec logged
- Incoming inspection report
- Lot ID assigned
Masking & Prep
Glass-bead and sand-blast for surface activation. Tapes, plugs, and lacquers on critical features. Aluminum deox or acid etch, depending on the spec being run.
- Tape / plug / lacquer map
- Bead-blast or etch log
- Activation sign-off
Process
One of seventy tanks — anodize, plate, chem-film, passivate, phosphate. Bath chemistry monitored by atomic absorption spectrophotometer; current density and time logged per lot.
- Bath chemistry log (AAS)
- Current density & time
- Per-spec process traveler
Rinse, Cure, Bake
Cascade rinses to zero discharge. Bake cycles to 525°F across 4–24 hours for hydrogen embrittlement relief, paint cure, and coating densification.
- Cascade rinse to zero discharge
- Bake schedule (4–24 hr to 525°F)
- Embrittlement relief
Inspect
Bowman XRF for plating thickness. PerkinElmer Pinnacle 500 AAS for bath chemistry. DeFelsko gauges, salt-spray chamber, microscopic exam. NDT lab for penetrant and mag-particle.
- XRF thickness · DeFelsko
- Salt-spray + microscope
- NDT — penetrant / mag particle
Ship
Cert package — chemistry, thickness, NDT, salt-spray — assembled with the lot. Parts packaged to print and routed to the customer or to the next-step vendor on schedule.
- Cert pack — chem + thickness
- NDT report attached
- On-time ship to print
Equipment by department
The full capability matrix.
Every process line, every chemistry, every test — under one NADCAP-audited roof.
- Type II sulfuric line — clear and dyed
- Type III hard-coat line — 32–40°F bath
- Type IC boric-sulfuric line
- Titanium anodize cell — per AMS2488
- Electroless nickel — high / medium / low phosphorus
- Ni composite tanks — PTFE, silicon carbide, nanodiamond
- Cadmium · zinc-nickel · bright / sulfamate / hard / black nickel
- Precious metals — gold, silver · plus copper, tin lines
- Chem-film Type I hex · Type II tri (RoHS)
- Passivation — nitric Type II/VI · citric per ASTM 967
- Phosphate — manganese, zinc, fluoride, titanium
- Black oxide · Ebonol C for steel and iron alloys
- Liquid penetrant per ASTM 1417 Methods A & D
- Magnetic particle inspection per ASTM 1444
- Nital etch · titanium phosphate pre-pen etch
- AMS 2446 testing · pre-pen etch for Ti, Al, SS
- Bowman XRF — plating thickness on every lot
- PerkinElmer Pinnacle 500 AAS — bath chemistry
- DeFelsko coating-thickness gauges
- Salt-spray chamber · 2-hr and 24-hr cycles
- Pulse Reverse Electropolish (PREP)
- Dry-film lubricant — Mil-PRF-46010H, Mil-L-8937, AS5272
- Primer + paint — single coat, primer + topcoat, primer + 2 coats
- Bake cycles to 525°F · 4–24 hour holds
- Glass-bead blast cabinets
- Sand-blast booth
- Tape, plug, and lacquer masking station
- Aluminum deox · acid etch pre-treats
- NADCAP chemical processes — continuous since 2004
- FAA approved · USFCR verified vendor
- Approved at Boeing, Raytheon, Rolls-Royce, P&W, IHI, Donaldson
- Microscopic examination with photo documentation
Next step
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