Surface Treatment
Surface Treatment
Electropolishing
Your engineered devices require highly engineerable processes that interact to achieve high-performance surfaces.
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- Improve corrosion resistance
- Reduce surface free energy
- Reduce surface area
- Increase fatigue life
- Reduce surface area
- Improve corrosion resistance
- Increase edge rounding
- Reduce bioburden (particles and microorganisms on the surface)
- Reduce surface area
Improve appearance – bright, smooth, easy to verify quality
Available for a wide range of metals including nitinol, stainless steel, and alloys of cobalt-chrome, tantalum, titanium, magnesium, zinc, and aluminum.
Uniquely, Lumenous offers highly polished surfaces with the option highly rounded edges or minimal rounding
Electropolishing with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It: polishing characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the device.
Example: a highly rounded part with features that need to be sharp.
Other surface finishing processes
- Chemical polishing/texturing
- Mechanical polishing/texturing
- Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It: characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the device.
- Abrasive microblasting
- Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It: characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the device.
- Polishing with radius control (square-ish or large radius edges)
- Etching
- Passivation (ASTM F86, A380, A967, B600)
Other surface finishing processes
- Chemical polishing/texturing
- Mechanical polishing/texturing
- Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It: characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the device.
- Abrasive microblasting
- Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It: characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the device.
- Polishing with radius control (square-ish or large radius edges)
- Etching
- Passivation (ASTM F86, A380, A967, B600)