| October 28, 2008
Metal Improvement Company Adds Boric/Sulfuric Acid Anodizing Capability
Bensalem, PA, Oct. 28 - Metal Improvement Company (MIC) has expanded its metal finishing operations at its Bensalem, PA facility by the start up of a Boric/Sulfuric Acid Anodizing (BSAA) line. BSAA is approved by many aerospace OEMs as an environmentally friendly alternative to chromic acid anodizing (CAA.)
The MIC Bensalem facility, located in northeast suburban Philadelphia, has over 200,000 square feet of processing space, and services the aerospace and other specialty industries. The facility utilizes automated chemical processing tanks that are 40 feet long, twelve feet deep and 4 feet wide. These tanks enable the BSAA of large single components, measuring up to 38 feet long by 10 feet high by 2 feet wide, or large batches of smaller parts.
Besides BSAA, the Bensalem facility performs a range of other metal finishing services including grit blasting, fluorescent penetrant inspection (FPI), chromic/phosphoric acid anodizing, Alodine®, glass beading and shot peening. Coating capabilities include a wide range of fluoropolymer coatings such as PTFE, FEP, PFA, ETFE, PVDF, Xylan®, Halar® and Kynar® 500.
The MIC Bensalem facility holds multiple approvals from aerospace OEMs, including Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon, Boeing, Bombardier, Cessna, De Havilland and Sikorsky. The National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) has accredited the facility's quality system and its FPI capability.
For more information on MIC Bensalem’s fluoropolymer/powder coating or anodizing capabilities, contact Metal Improvement Company at 215-638-0888 or Email: bensalem-finishing@metalimprovement.com.
Metal Improvement Company provides precision metal finishing services, including shot peening, laser peening heat treating and coating services through a network of 65 facilities in North America and Europe. Metal Improvement Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). For more information about MIC ’s capabilities, visit www.metalimprovement.com
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, headquartered in Roseland, NJ, is a diversified company that designs, manufactures and overhauls products for motion control and flow control applications in addition to providing metal treatment services. For more information about Curtiss-Wright visit www.curtisswright.com
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