Water Innovations puts high value on continued education as practiced by our own Vice President, Steven Ward. Steven has completed the AESF Foundation’s Airline & Aerospace Finishing Parts 1 & 2, providing further expertise to our team.
This course provided a broad range of information related to metal finishing operations that are commonly conducted in the Airline/Aerospace industry on the specific topics below:
- Electroplating
- Corrosion of Metals
- Hydrogen Embrittlement
- Metals & Alloys Utilized in Aerospace
- Chemical Surface Preparation of Substrates for Plating Substrates
- Mechanical Surface Preparation – mechanical means of preparing parts for surface finishing.
- Masking Techniques – covers methods employed for selective plating.
- Quality Conformance Testing – covers the more commonly conducted QA/QC tests utilized in aerospace.
- Plating Solution Maintenance
- Chem Film
- Zinc and Manganese Phosphating
- LHE Zinc-Nickel Alloy Plating
- Cadmium Ti-Cad and Nickel-Cad Diffused Coatings
- Copper & Silver Plating
- Sulfamate & Nickel Strike Plating
- Hard Chromium Plating
- Anodizing Aluminum
- Electroless Nickel Deposition
- Brush Plating
- Stripping
- Thermal Spray & PVD
