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 | Electroless Nickel Plating
MIP offers electroless nickel plating or finishing services for all your engineering needs. MIP meets the specifications required by all major industries including:
- Military
- Automotive
- Aerospace, and
- Electrical Industries
Electroless nickel plating is generally undertaken in the engineering sector for imparting the following characteristics to components:
- High abrasion resistance
- Protecting components against corrosion
- For salvage purposes and also to provide protection against corrosive chemical environments
Electroless nickel plating is a process in which nickel-alloy deposits are applied onto metallic substrates using an auto catalytic immersion process without the use of electric current. A major benefit of this process is the uniformity of coating, unlike other electroplating processes. MIP uses mid-phosphate nickel plating. Depending on the thickness and phosphorous content, electroless nickel plating is an excellent corrosion inhibitor.
Electroless nickel plating is predominantly used for irregularly shaped, blind holes, cavities and highly detailed geometries of substrates. The finish ranges from matte to bright, depending on the quality of the substrate surface.
MIP uses the following base metal substrates for our electroless nickel plating process:
Our electroless nickel plating process conforms to the following standards:
- MIL C 26074
- ASTM B733
- 83229, and
- PP 13004
We also have in-house equipment such as thickness measurement instruments and X-ray machine to measure thickness of precision parts and components. MIP is a certified Class Two vendor of the ISO 9002 quality system. We have drum or rack plating capabilities for larger and delicate parts that are prone to easier damage. Rack plating is performed by hanging the parts to be plated on racks with stiff wires that hold the parts firmly, ensuring efficient plating. Racking is ideal for grouping individual parts together with electrical continuity so that the individual parts can be plated as a group. This facilitates increased productivity and lower pricing than individually electroplating the same parts. |
| Selective Plating
MIP offers selective plating services for small and large electrical equipment parts. We meet most of the specifications outlined by manufacturers in all major industries including:
- Military
- Automotive
- Aerospace, and
- Electrical Industries
Selective plating is a process, in which only a part of the material is plated. This process offers significant advantages over conventional plating processes, such as:
- The ability to deposit metal precisely onto the required area and in varying and uniform thicknesses.
- Excellent adhesion, dense, fine grained deposits that are low in porosity, deposited without generating any damaging heat, with improved wear and corrosion resistance.
- The Selective Plating process can be carried out onsite.
- The process can be used on single parts or high volume production runs.
Selective plating is done by two methods: by masking off the piece of the part that need not be coated and then proceeding to coat the rest of the piece; or by coating the whole part and then removing coating from a desired area.
We also have in-house equipment like thickness measurement instruments and X-ray machines to measure thickness of precision parts and components. MIP is a certified Class Two vendor of the ISO 9002 quality system. |
| Silver Plating
MIP offers silver plating services for small and large electrical equipment parts. We can meet all your silver plating requirements and most of the specifications outlined by manufacturers in the following industries:
- Military
- Automotive
- Aerospace, and
- Electrical Industries
Silver plating offers the following advantages:
- Silver has highest electrical conductivity when compared to all other metals
- Silver has high electrical and thermal conductivity
- Silver is corrosion resistant
- Silver has excellent solderability
- Despite being tarnished easily, silver can be cleaned and polished
Our silver plating process conforms to the following standards:
- PPS0049
- QQ S 365 (Matte and Semi-bright)
- B700 90
- ED 4.2.36
- 83228
- PPS0050, and
- ES006
We offer the following finishing types for silver plating:
- Matte
- Semi-bright, and
- Bright
MIP processes silver on copper plating using the following base metal substrates:
- Brass
- Bronze
- Beryllium
- Aluminum
We have a three 285 gallon tanks for our silver plating services. We also have in-house equipment such as thickness measurement instruments and X-ray machine to measure thickness of precision parts and components. MIP is a certified Class Two vendor of the ISO 9002 quality system. We have drum or rack plating capabilities for larger and delicate parts that are prone to easier damage. Rack plating is performed by hanging the parts to be plated on racks with stiff wires that hold the parts firmly ensuring efficient plating. Racking is ideal for grouping individual parts together with electrical continuity so that the individual parts can be plated as a group. This facilitates increased productivity and lower pricing than individually electroplating the same parts. |
| Tin Plating
MIP offers tin plating services that meet all your engineering needs and corrosion protection requirements. MIP meets most tin plating specifications required by the following industries:
- Military
- Automotive
- Aerospace, and
- Electrical Industries
Tin is a white, non-toxic, solderable, soft deposit metal with the following advantages:
- Tin is very soft and malleable and can be transformed without any cracking
- Tin is highly corrosion resistant
- Tin is highly tarnish resistant
- Tin acts as a good electrical conductor
The solderability of tin can is affected by the substrates used since several metals react and migrate into tin, forming a non-solderable inter metallic layers. This is of particular concern when tin is plated over brass. The tin will migrate into the iron, in turn, limiting the shelf life of the finished parts. To counter this, MIP applies an undercoat of copper or nickel to form a tin cast, which will, in turn, limit the migration of zinc.
We offer the following finishing types for tin plating:
- Matte - Has better solderability
- Semi-bright
- Bright - Specified more for appearance
MIP processes tin on copper and tin on iron plating using the following base metal substrates:
- Brass
- Aluminum
- Iron
- Copper
- Bronze
- Beryllium
- and more
Our tin plating process conforms to the following standards:
- ASTM B545
- MIL T 10727
- MPS0023
We use a four 285 gallon tank for our tin plating process. We also have in-house equipment such as thickness measurement instruments and X-ray machine to measure thickness of precision parts and components. MIP is a certified Class Two vendor of the ISO 9002 quality system. We have drum or rack plating capabilities for larger and delicate parts that are prone to easier damage. Rack plating is performed by hanging the parts to be plated on racks with stiff wires that hold the parts firmly ensuring efficient plating. Racking is ideal for grouping individual parts together with electrical continuity so that the individual parts can be plated as a group. This facilitates increased productivity and lower pricing than individually electroplating the same parts. |
| Zinc Plating
MIP offers the flexibility to handle production runs of varying sizes to suit your zinc plating needs, with a strong emphasis on quality. Our zinc plating services serve the following industries:
- Military
- Automotive
- Aerospace, and
- Electrical Industries
Zinc is a bluish-white deposit, which serves as a decorative and inexpensive protective metal with the following advantages:
- Acts as a coating against atmospheric corrosion of iron and steel parts
- Zinc coatings prevent oxidation by forming a barrier and acting as a sacrificial anode when the barrier is damaged
- Zinc oxide is a fine white dust that prevents the breakdown of the substrate′s surface integrity as it forms
Zinc plating is further protected by the application of post-plate treatments such as chromates and sealers. We offer chromates that provide an additional layer of protection.
Our chromate options include the following:
- Trivalent yellow chromate with salt spray protection of 120 hours
- Trivalent clear chromate with protection of 96 hours
- Blue chromate with salt spray protection of 96 hours
Our zinc plating process conforms to the following standards:
- ASTM B 633
- QQ Z 325
- 83246
We have a two 400 gallon tanks for our zinc plating process. We also have in-house equipment such as thickness measurement instruments and X-ray machine to measure thickness of precision parts and components. MIP is a certified Class Two vendor of the ISO 9002 quality system. We have drum or rack plating capabilities for larger and delicate parts that are prone to easier damage. Rack plating is performed by hanging the parts to be plated on racks with stiff wires that hold the parts firmly ensuring efficient plating. Racking is ideal for grouping individual parts together with electrical continuity so that the individual parts can be plated as a group. This facilitates increased productivity and lower pricing than individually electroplating the same parts. |
| Copper Plating
MIP offers copper plating services for small and large electrical equipment parts. We can meet all your copper plating requirements and specifications and we possess capabilities to service all major industries including:
- Military
- Automotive
- Aerospace, and
- Electrical Industries
Copper provides a soft, ductile and solderable surface and has the following advantages:
- Copper has excellent leveling properties
- It acts as an undercoat for most of the metals
- Copper is highly ductile and thereby polishes easily to a high shine, so that it supports a bright, shiny finishing metal above it
- Copper has the ability to fill sharp corners and level the surface imperfections, allowing smooth and uniform coverage of the base metal
- Copper makes an excellent undercoat on aluminum, which is a base metal that most other metals will not attach to
Three basic types of copper plating processes are commercially available based upon the systems used. They are:
- Alkaline-(several modifications of cyanide and non-cyanide)
- Acid-(sulfate and fluoborate), and
- Mildly alkaline-(pyro phosphate)
We ensure that our copper plating process conforms to MIL C 1455 standards. We use a two 285 gallon tanks for our plating processes. We also have in-house equipment such as thickness measurement instruments and X-ray machine to the measure thickness of precision parts and components. MIP is a certified Class Two vendor of the ISO 9002 quality system. We have drum or rack plating capabilities for larger and delicate parts that are prone to easier damage. Rack plating is performed by hanging the parts to be plated on racks with stiff wires that hold the parts firmly ensuring efficient plating. Racking is ideal for grouping individual parts together with electrical continuity so that the individual parts can be plated as a group. This facilitates increased productivity and lower pricing than individually electroplating the same parts. |
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