About Our Supplemental Services

Coordinate outplant orders to better smooth your supply chain.  Save in-house supply chain management time by letting us manage sub-plant operations relating to coating preparation including:

• Cleaning services
  • We'll coordinate with out-plant cleaning shops to make the coating process as efficient as possible.
• Heat treatment services
  • We work with well known and highly qualified shops to assure your parts are properly treated.

• Other services available upon request.   Contact our Sales Team to discuss your needs.  

Need your part surface precision cleaned or surface modification for your process?  SilcoTek has spent years developing surface preparation methods designed to minimize contamination from oils and other contaminants.  We offer surface preparation and cleaning options for large and small parts.  Go to our FAQ page to learn more about part size and capabilities.

• Nitric Acid Stripping 
  • Services include coating removal and copper/nickel stripping. 
• Surface Preparation Treatments
  • Rust removal, oxidation removal and basic heat treatment services.
• Vapor Stripping 
  • Precision cleaning, size limitations apply.
• Ultrasonic Cleaning
  • Precision cleaning in ultrasonic cleaning baths.

• Tubing cutting and deburring services.

• Tooling/fixturing design and fabrication.

• Kit packaging, packaging parts for down stream manufacturing or assembly.

• Order shipment consolidations.

• Part segregation, part serializing or segregation for down process identification.

• Custom transport tooling, custom packaging design (outsourced or internally developed) fixture design and fabrication.

• Part disassembly, basic part disassembly upon receipt.

• Nut and ferrule disassembly and re-assembly.

• Data records and quality reports.

• Tier-one packaging and labeling.

SilcoTek In-House Characterization Capabilities

• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR): Nicolet model 380
  • Accessories:
    • Specular Apertured Grazing Angle – for surface analysis
    • Attenuated Total Reflectance – for liquid and solid bulk analysis
    • Transmission – for through-sample measurement

 

• Coating Thickness: Filmetrics spectroscopic film thickness analysis
  • Filmetrics F20 – for bulk surface measurements on reflective surfaces
    
    • Contact probe
    • Sample stage
    • Extension contact probe
    • Spot size 1mm
    • Thickness range = 15nm – 70μm, wavelength range = 380-1050nm
  • Filmetrics F40 – for precise, focused measurements on reflective and rough surfaces
    
    • 15X microscope system
    • Motorized X-Y stage for mapping
    • Spot size = 1μm
    • Thickness range = 4nm – 40μm, wavelength range = 190-1100nm

 

• Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS): Gamry Series G 300 Potentiostat/Galvanostat
  • Primarily used by SilcoTek to characterize the electrochemical impedance of our depositions

 

• Goniometer: ramé-hart model 200
  • Static single-point contact angle measurement
  • Polar and non-polar liquids
    • Water
    • Hexadecane
    • Other liquids are possible

 

• Tensiometer: Kruss K100
  • Dynamic contact angle measurement on bulk surfaces
  • Advancing and receding contact angle for more complete surface energy characterization
  • Polar and non-polar liquids
    • Water
    • Hexadecane
    • Other liquids are possible

 

• Cyclic Salt Fog Chamber: Weice Testing Instrument WTS90+C
  • Typically running ASTM G85 – based cyclic salt fog exposure testing
    • Acidified
    • Non-acidified

 

• Non-destructive metal composition analysis: Niton XRF Analyzer
  • Percentage sensitivity detection of 25 elements from S to U.
    
    

Outplant Testing Services

SilcoTek also collaborates with many private and public materials testing laboratories to further enhance our capabilities.  Our proximity to several leading materials characterization labs allow us to conduct in-depth analysis of our coatings which further enhance the ability of our customers to evaluate our coatings.