Quality at Alexandria Metal Finishers

Process Control: Alexandria's facility provides ISO 9001 plating and anodizing including a complete laboratory with state-of-the-art test equipment. Graduate chemists document and perform on-the-spot analysis of process solutions. This process control provides traceability required to ensure the highest quality standards.

Test Equipment Computer System For reviewing, tracking & updating customer part information, history (revision levels, etc.) Equipment for checking coating thickness: X-ray fluorescence and betascope Betabackscatter Fisher technologies permascope Coulometric thickness tester Inverted metallurgical microscope Digital micrometers, calipers, as well as digimatic hole tester for inside bore diameters Varied (~50 sets) of coating standards. (Traceable to NIST) Magnetic Induction Eddy Current Hall Effect Environmental Test Chambers: High Humidity Salt spray Porosity Complete coating property evaluation equipment: Abrasion resistance Microhardness (Vickers & Knoop) tester Electronic balance for coating weight Microsectioning apparatus for the preparation for metallurgical studies Surftest surface roughness tester Stereo type microscope for final (visual) inspection Full chemistry lab for on-the-spot plating bath analysis and troubleshooting.