News & Events
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NASF’s annual SUR/FIN conference and trade show
Next week a team of our engineers will be traveling to Chicago to attend NASF’s annual SUR/FIN conference and trade show. This year our own Patrick Howe will be presenting the results of a collaborative Design of Experiment Anoplate and Rolls-Royce teamed up to complete. The purpose of the DoE was to push Low Hydrogen Embrittlement Zinc Nickel to the far limits of its standard operating parameters to better understand what the finish is capable of, even in non-ideal plating conditions. This pro…
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Anoplate’s branded line of “AnoBlack” coatings are designed to reduce stray light and outgassing for the optics industry for a variety of alloys. Our AnoBlack coatings have been used on Satellites, Life-Support systems, Military Optics, Medical devices and more. AnoBlack EC Our two-step inorganic anodize is designed to work with 1000, 5000, and 6000 series aluminum and will not work with 2000, 7000, or cast material. AnoBlack EC meets and exceeds the coating requirements of MIL-PRF-8265 Type…
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Another Successful NADCAP Audit
Anoplate recently completed another week long NADCAP reaccreditation audit resulting in a single finding! That’s remarkable considering Anoplate has one of the broadest scope of approvals in the industry. Anoplate’s approval ranging from 5 types of anodize to zinc-nickel plating and more than fifty other finishes in-between. The auditor cited “pride and dedication among the team members on the floor resulting in a lot of cooperation among everybody.” NADCAP accreditation not only opens Anopla…
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There is often a lot of confusion around these terms and for good reason because by themselves they do not alone define a coating or process. Decades ago they were synonymous with yellow, hexavalent chromate conversion coating of aluminum as MacDermid’s Iridite® 14-2 and Henkel’s Alodine® 1200 products were the leading products used to apply the coating. These yellow chromate conversion coatings, also known as chemical film, provide corrosion protection and act as an adhesion promoter for paint…
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Electro-chemical oxidation of aluminum in a sulfuric acid electrolyte results in a thin, porous layer of aluminum oxide. Those pores are a perfect receptor for organic dyestuffs; the same dyestuffs used to color printing ink, plastics and textiles. Nearly any color can be incorporated into a properly anodized layer with the exception of white. One of the limitations of organic dyes is that they can begin to fade when exposed to light, temperature and/or certain chemicals. The ability to resis…
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