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Our Finishing Processes - Acid Chloride Zinc Plating

Zinc Plating with Trivalent Passivate

Southeast Zinc Electroplating Applications

  • Many Automotive Uses
  • Consumer & Decorative Goods
  • Industrial Goods

Zinc Plating Advantages

  • Cost Effective Coating
  • Excellent Covering Power on Cast Iron
  • Ability to plate Heat Treated or Hardened parts

Zinc Acid Chloride Plating

Acid chloride zinc barrel plating has historically been the backbone of our business. We have three automatic hoist machines for barrel zinc plating to numerous Toyota, Honda, Chrysler, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes, VW, Volvo, Freightliner, Delphi, Denso, ZF, Meritor, Bosch, Contential and ASTM B633 standards. Barrel zinc plating makes up well over 40% of our business and our capacity allows us to quickly respond to customer needs. These machines work 24 hours, 5 days a week.

Our machines are designed to process small metric and US fasteners as well as the large heavy fasteners made of low carbon, high carbon, or leaded steel. We also process light delicate stampings, springs, to heavy stampings where special handling is required to prevent part damage.

We offer blue bright thin film trivalent chromates for good appearance as well as thick film clear passivates for excellent corrosion protection. In cases where parts are hydrogen relieved in bake ovens, we offer chromate conversion coatings after baking. Our trivalents meet the requirements of the new RHOS, ELV, WEEE and Reach regulations. In addition to clear trivalents, we offer black and yellow trivalents.

Our 3 barrel zinc machines were engineered with the latest programmable control plating technologies and we have 60" X 21", 48" X 21" and 42" X 21" barrel sizes with varying perforations. This ensures we can handle the wide variation of parts required by our customers.

Zinc Electroplating

Our operators scan the part number and weight in the computer system and the computer controls the amount of amperage to deliver to the plating barrel. This gives us the capability to plate small lots or large lots at any given time.

Our Acid Zinc rack plating is done at our McDougal facility where we have two large computer controlled hoist lines.













A Sample of Zinc Acid Chloride Specifications We Plate To:

  • General Motors
    • GMW 3044
    • 4345M
  • BMW
    • GS 90010
  • Honda
    • HES D 2003
  • Chrysler
    • PS-79
  • Toyota
    • TSH6500
    • TSH6524G
  • Ford
    • WSS M1P85
    • WSS M21P17
  • Teves
    • ATE N 522 61.04
  • Delphi
    • DX 551200
  • Bosch
    • F00R.000.110
    • F00R.000.633
    • F00R.000.828

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