Advanced Surface Technologies Blog Empowering Our Customers to Be Heard

AST is a high quality metal finishing company that specializes in electroless nickel plating, gold plating, silver plating, plating on magnesium, tin plating, electrolytic nickel plating, passivation and chemical conversion coatings. A large percentage of AST’s customers are OEM’s and high end machine shops that have stringent quality requirements. One of our clients, a provider of voice pick-up and radio transmitters in the performing arts industry, came to us with a challenge they have been facing for years. They were producing voice transmitters with black anodized coating. However, anodize is aluminum oxide which is an electric insulator, so the components couldn’t properly ground. To combat this, they were using masking in some areas of the component to allow for grounding, but this created oxidation in the bare spots, which only increased corrosion and decreased quality. They needed plating that would allow grounding, avoid corrosion, and black color to blend in Read more…