Whether you have an occasional need for brush plating, or your operation involves large volumes of parts, SIFCO Applied Surface Concepts provides flexible alternatives for your finishing needs. We can plate your parts on-site, at your facility, or at one of our service facilities worldwide

SIFCO has been providing job shop brush plating services to industry since 1959. Our team of experienced technicians backed by our Technical Support and R&D Groups will provide you with a level of service and expertise that is unparalleled within the industry.

• A winning combination: Brush plating experience, expertise in chemistry, engineering, metallurgy, and electroplating

What We Do

We will work with you to gather information about the technical aspects of your job and clearly define your needs and objectives. We will ask you to provide prints, specifications and any other relevant documentation.

We will review the information and prepare a proposal outlining what needs to be done, when and where the work will be done, and a price for doing the work.

• Depending on the application, we will work with you to determine the best and most cost effective SIFCO facility to service your needs.
  
  

We will review the proposal with you to ensure that we are meeting your requirements and to confirm the technical and logistical aspects of the job.

• If the work is to be performed at your facility, we will work closely with you to ensure that we provide the necessary documentation for our people and equipment to be at your facility, and to arrange any logistical support that we may require.

Once we receive your purchase order, we will proceed with the job as planned and scheduled.

Our Team

Each of the members of our Technical Support Group has over 25 years of industry experience working with a broad range of applications. We are able to draw on that experience as we evaluate your application. Our trained and experienced Technicians hold certifications that demonstrate their ability to professionally perform the work for you.

We have the flexibility to draw on talent to support your needs from our four locations in the US (Independence, OH; Houston, TX; Norfolk, VA; East Windsor, CT) and from our Facilities in the UK, France, and Sweden.

We are looking forward to working with you!

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Our R&D and technical support staff has over five decades of experience in providing plating solutions. The team has expertise in the fields of electrochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, physical chemistry, and environmental health & safety.

We provide support in all aspects of the plating process, including process development as well as anode design and modeling. Our process development services include plating and anodizing new components in addition to improving the deposit uniformity or efficiency of existing processes. If our standard plating products do not meet your plating requirements, we will work with you to develop a custom solution for your application.

We also provide application troubleshooting services. Some common plating issues that we often encounter and solve include high/low thickness, deposit uniformity, poor adhesion, and poor deposit quality. To ensure that our plating processes perform to application requirements, we also conduct tests for microhardness, salt spray, stereo microscopy, and X-ray fluorescence for material composition.

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• Add flexibility to your production options
• Keep your parts in house
• Let you control the quality of your plated parts

SIFCO Applied Surface Concepts can design a customized system to electroplate or anodize localized areas on most conductive components from as small as the head of a pin to as large as an automobile crankshaft (or even larger).

SIFCO can provide you with a turnkey operation that can be easily integrated into your production line. You can eliminate the shipping costs and scheduling issues associated with using an outside vendor. Your system will provide accurately controlled and consistent quality deposits and coatings with minimal operator involvement.

A typical Production Selective Plating System will include one or more preparatory operations prior to the application of the final coating. Fixturing, masking, and motion are determined by the configuration of the part and are engineered to meet your production objectives.

Unlike a typical tank plating line that requires large volumes of chemicals, Production Selective Plating uses brush plating technology and significantly reduces the solution volumes required for the operation. These custom designed, self-contained systems help minimize environmental and safety concerns within your plant.

What We Do

We will work with you to gather information about the technical aspects of your application and clearly define your needs and objectives. We will ask you to provide prints, specifications and any other relevant documentation on the parts to be plated as well as the proposed facility location.

We will prepare a discussion document outlining what needs to be done, when and where the work will be done, and a budgetary proposal for the project.

We will review the proposal with you to ensure that we are meeting your requirements and to confirm the technical and logistical aspects of the project.

Once we receive your purchase order, we will proceed with the job as planned and scheduled.

Our Team

Each of the members of our Technical Support Group has over 25 years of industry experience working with a broad range of applications. We are able to draw on that experience as we evaluate your application. Our trained and experienced Technicians hold certifications that demonstrate their ability to professionally perform the work for you.

We have the flexibility to draw on talent to support your needs from our four locations in the US (Independence, OH; Houston, TX; Norfolk, VA; East Windsor, CT) and from our Facilities in the UK, France, and Sweden.

We are looking forward to working with you!

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