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High pressure die cast tooling is a fast, repeatable process that delivers quality metal components, every time—but only if your component is designed properly. There are many factors that go into a successful design for high-volume manufacturing and our team of engineers helps thousands of customers each year successfully launch new projects. When designing a part for die casting, many of our customers are looking to reduce not only the cost of their component but overall weight as well. To do this, our team looks at the component as a whole and utilizes our DFM (design for manufacturing) methods to design out inefficiencies. What does this mean for you? Your final part will be designed not only to your specific requirements but it will be a high-quality component that won’t fail you down the road. What is the ideal wall thickness for die cast tooling ? Wall thickness, typically is 2mm for aluminum die casting. Customers are looking for lighter weight castings and a lot o...

The process of adding an electrolessnickel plating to a metal surface is an autocatalytic chemical reduction. This means that instead of using an outside source of electricity like in the similar electroplating process, the electroless plating process uses a chemical bath to deposit a nickel / phosphorous layer onto the metallic surface. A surface coated in electroless nickel can even be used on non-conductive surfaces which allows for plating of a wider variety of base materials. This electroless process greatly improves the objects resistance to galling and leaves a predictable, uniform nickel coating for high-precision parts, which can be applied to both ferrous and non-ferrous surfaces of any geometry or intricate shape. Components used in industrial applications often encounter punishing conditions Electro-Coatings provides five different types of electroless plating, and though they are mainly dependent on the amount of phosphorus present in the chemical bath, they each ...

ElectrolessNickel Plating (ENP) is that the deposit of a nickel-alloy coating by chemical reduction – while not the electrical current that’s utilized in electroplating processes. The majority of ENP for engineering functions may be a nickel phosphorus deposit containing a pair of phosphorus. The higher the phosphorus content the larger the corrosion resistance, but the compromise on raised phosphorus content may be a decrease in hardness. ENP is deposited by reducing nickel ions to bimetal nickel with a chemical reductant like atomic number 11 hydrophosphite. Thickness of 25-75m is common, high phosphorus ENP will edge on top of 75m though this will begin to push the boundaries of ENP. The benefits of electroless nickel plating ENP offers wonderful corrosion resistance to common corrodents like salt water, carbonic acid gas, atomic number 8 and H chemical compound. High phosphorus deposits of ENP (10-14% phos) is additionally amorphous, which suggests that there are not...