• Metallizing Powders And Metallizing Wires Synonyms:

metallization, metallizing, metallize, metallisation, metalization, metalizing powders, metalizing wires, metallizing powders, metallizing wires, Pure Molybdenum powders and wires, Pure Aluminum powders and wires, Pure Copper powders and wires, Pure Nickel powders and wires, Pure Tungsten powders and wires, Stainless steel powders and wires, Aluminum Bronze powders and wires, Tin Based Babbitt powders and wires, Silicon Aluminum powders and wires, Cobalt Chromium Moly powders and wires, Low Carbon Steel powders and wires, Chrome Carbide powders and wires, Tungsten Carbide Fine powders and wires, Tungsten Carbide Coarse powders and wires, Tungsten Carbide High Hardness powders and wires, Tungsten Carbide-Cr Carbide powders and wires, Aluminum Oxide (alumina) powders and wires, Al Oxide-Titanium Dioxide powders and wires, Titanium Dioxide powders and wires, Chromium Oxide powders and wires, Zirconium Oxide powders and wires, Yttria-Zirconium Oxide powders and wires, Magnesium Zirconate powders and wires, Magnesia-Alumina Spinel powders and wires, High Carbon Iron-Moly Composite powders and wires, Nickel-Chrome powders and wires, Pre-Alloyed Nickel-Aluminum powders and wires, Nickel-Aluminum-Molybdenum powders and wires, Cobalt-Chromium-Molybdenum powders and wires, Aluminum Silicon Polyester powders and wires, Aluminum Bronze Polyester powders and wires,

• Metallizing Description:

  a) Metallizing is the general name for the technique of coating metal on the surface of non-metallic objects. Because a non-metallic object tends to be a poor electrical conductor, the object's surface must be made conductive before plating can be performed.

  b) Techniques for metallization started as early as mirror making. In 1835, Justus von Liebig discovered the process of coating a glass surface with metallic silver, making the glass mirror one of the earliest items being metallized. Plating other non-metallic objects grew rapidly with introduction of ABS plastic. The plastic part is first etched chemically by a suitable process, such as dipping in a hot chromic acid-sulfuric acid mixture. The etched surface is sensitised and activated by first dipping in tin(II) chloride solution, then palladium chloride solution. The processed surface is then coated with electroless copper or nickel before further plating. This process gives useful (about 1 to 6 kgf/cm or 10 to 60 N/cm or 5 to 35 lbf/in) adhesion force, but is much weaker than actual metal-to-metal adhesion strength.

  c) Vacuum metallizing involves heating the coating metal to its boiling point in a vacuum chamber, then letting condensation deposit the metal on the substrate's surface. Resistance heating, electron beam, or plasma heating is used to vaporize the coating metal. Vacumm metallizing was used to deposit aluminum on the large glass mirrors of reflecting telescopes, such as with the Hale telescope.  

  d) Thermal spray processes are often referred to as metallizing.

• Metallizing Services Available From READE:

a) Thermal spray powders and wires

b) Plasma spray powders and wires

• Metallizing Powder And Metallizing Wire Materials Available From READE:

Pure Molybdenum,
Pure Aluminum,
Pure Copper,
Pure Nickel,
Pure Tungsten,
Stainless steel,
Aluminum Bronze,
Tin Based Babbitt,
Silicon Aluminum, 
Cobalt Chromium Molybdenum,
Low Carbon Steel,
Chrome Carbide,
Tungsten Carbide Fine,
Tungsten Carbide Coarse,
Tungsten Carbide High Hardness, 
Tungsten Carbide-Chromium Carbide,
Aluminum Oxide (Alumina),
Aluminum Oxide-Titanium Dioxide,
Titanium Dioxide, 
Chromium Oxide, 
Zirconium Oxide, 
Yttria-Zirconium Oxide,
Magnesium Zirconate, 
Magnesia-Alumina Spinel, 
High Carbon Iron-Moly Composite, 
Nickel-Chrome,
Pre-Alloyed Nickel-Aluminum, 
Nickel-Aluminum-Molybdenum, 
Cobalt-Chromium-Molybdenum,
Aluminum Silicon Polyester,
Aluminum Bronze Polyester,

•  Metallizing Powders And Metallizing Wires Packaging:

To customer specification

• Metallizing Powders And Metallizing Wires TSCA (SARA Title III) Status:

Varies. For further information please call the E.P.A. at +1.202.554.1404