Please give me two minutes of your time to tell you about Nickel Technologies Inc.

While working for another company I had need for Electroless Nickel plating on aluminum valve spools. Parts were sent to several job shops and the experience was not good: poor quality, scrap, and lost parts. With the help of Witco Chemical I set up a plating line in house. After three years of plating and almost no problems, I asked my chemical rep why I was able to do this when job shops that had tried to do work for us had failed. His reply: “Most shops do many different kinds of plating. This makes it difficult for them to focus on electroless nickel which is unlike electroplating.” I decided to start my own business.

Nickel Technologies opened for business October 1983. The decision was to do only one thing and do it well. Electroless Nickel is our only Business. We are able to electroless nickel plate most metals including some zinc die-castings. Plating on aluminum is our specialty as it was our beginning. The plating bath is continuously analyzed and additions are made instantly again using computer control, also process temperatures are controlled +/- 2 degrees F. As new parts arrive each is carefully evaluated and a process cycle is developed to give the best possible results with the least opportunity for failure. This cycle specifies for each step in the process: solution type and concentration, temperature, and minutes and seconds of immersion time in solution. There are four counter flowing water rinses between each chemical process. Once this cycle is established all future shipments are handled using the same process cycle. This assures that you will receive the same quality each shipment. Coating thickness is controlled plus or minus .000050 of an inch. This control allows us to plate parts to finish dimensions without the need for post plate machining. We have capacity for both production runs and prototype quantities. Parts range in size from 6” x 10” x 20” castings and weights of 50 pounds, to micro screws that take 200 pieces to fill a teaspoon.

If you are currently using Electroless Nickel or are considering it, we would appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a quotation. If you have any questions please call us at 1-800-874-8531. Thank you for your valuable time.