High-quality surface finishing at optimum cost
High-quality surface finishing at optimum costKeywords: Surface finishing, Costs, Plating
It is reported that a dedicated new £1 million purpose-built facility is providing OEMs and other discerning partners with access to market-leading high-specification surface finishing – producing cost-effective bespoke plating for both everyday solutions and niche applications.
Weymouth-based Tecan is said to offer long-standing experience and expertise,which are applied to individual needs, producing cost-effective, highly accurate and repeatable results, with optimum finish characteristics. Cleanliness and quality are key, throughout the plating processes, producing consistently superior surface finishes, using all popular and niche-application plated finishes.
Finishes available include acid gold, pure gold, silver, bright tin, 60/40 tin-lead, 90/10 tin-lead, sulphamate nickel, electroless nickel, copper, Type I sulphuric anodising and Type 3 hard anodising (colours to specification),stainless steel passivating, and Alochrome 1200 chemical blackening.
Non-destructive X-ray fluorescent testing is employed, to ensure that consistently flat and even surfaces and desired thickness meet the required specifications. QA programmes can be tailored to suit individual statistical process control (SPC) needs, with traceability reports generated as necessary.
Typical components produced by the company include lead frames, evaporation masks, crystal masks, hybrid lids, meshes and bespoke PCM parts requiring in-house plating. Also, other very high specification components requiring demanding levels of finish, in terms of both across-surface plating consistency and edge resolution – typically for application in the precision engineering, electronics, aerospace, pharmaceutical and medical equipment markets.
According to Tecan, its new metal-finishing facility has been designed with the flexibility to offer market-leading order turn around, from small batch to scheduled requirements.
