Metal Manufacturing & Surface Finishing
Cleaning, pickling, plating, passivating, and the effluent treatment that catches all of it. We supply the whole line rather than one stage of it.
A finishing line is a sequence
A problem at one stage shows up as a defect at another. Poor cleaning produces plating adhesion failures. An out-of-balance acid dip produces inconsistent deposit thickness. A passivate running at the wrong pH produces salt spray failures that get blamed on the plating.
Because we supply every stage, the troubleshooting conversation is not four separate vendors each confident the problem is somewhere else.
Laboratory support
Send a bath sample to Arleta and get titration results with a recommended addition schedule. Most of our plating customers use this monthly.
Bath analysis catches the drift that produces a scrap batch. It is cheaper than the scrap, which is the entire argument for doing it on a schedule rather than after a problem.
Hexavalent conversion
If a customer specification or a regulatory requirement is pushing you off hexavalent chromate, we support the conversion with panel testing and a line trial before you commit a production tank.
Changing a passivate is not a drop-in substitution. We would rather de-risk it than sell a drum that comes back.
The waste side
Spent baths, rinsate, and treatment sludge collected under manifest on the same route that brings the delivery. Coagulants and precipitants for the treatment system supplied from the same catalogue.
Products for this industry
A representative selection, not the full list. Anything in the line can be supplied here, and a great deal that is not in it.
| Product | CAS | Available as | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sulfuric Acid 93% Technical, 66 Baumé | 7664-93-9 | Bulk 275 gal tote 55 gal drum 5 gal carboy | SDS · CoA |
| Hydrochloric Acid 31% Technical, 20 Baumé | 7647-01-0 | Bulk 275 gal tote 55 gal drum 5 gal carboy | SDS · CoA |
| PKL PRO Miles line | Blend | 5 gal pail 55 gal drum 275 gal tote | SDS · CoA · TDS |
| PKL LITE Miles line | Blend | 5 gal pail 55 gal drum | SDS · CoA · TDS |
| Nitric Acid 67% Technical, 42 Baumé | 7697-37-2 | 55 gal drum 5 gal carboy | SDS · CoA |
| Coag-Plus Miles line | Blend | 55 gal drum 275 gal tote Bulk | SDS · TDS |
| Chrome-Free Passivate CF-1 Miles line | Blend | 5 gal pail 55 gal drum | SDS · CoA · TDS |
| Zinc Bright Acid Miles line | Blend | 5 gal pail 55 gal drum | SDS · CoA · TDS |
If your approval process needs something that is not here, one email gets it.
Certificates, insurance, registrations, safety data sheets, and completed supplier questionnaires. Standard documents go out the same business day.