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E
ven with all these changes, Novation strives to excel at the
basics while expanding their specialties. Plating and anodize pro-
cesses are the core of Novation’s operations and represent much
of their business. While they do provide many services to other
industries, aerospace remains a special focus for Novation; their
anodize and chemical conversion processes support a wide range
of aerospace manufacturing needs.
Their plating process capabilities include nickel, zinc, brite tin,
black oxide, phosphating, electro-polish, and chemical brite dip
along with passivation on stainless steel alloys. With regard to
nickel plating, Novation offers sulfamate nickel, brite nickel and
many processes for electroless nickel. For most processes, they
provide barrel as well as rack plating. Bake-off ovens are used for
Many parts processed by
Novation require multiple
process steps such as
non-destructive testing,
chemfilm, anodize, paints
and primers.
hydrogen embrittlement and stress relieving in the plating process,
when applicable.
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