Products & Services
Hard
Super hard coatings for your most demanding applications.
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Hard
Super hard coatings for your most demanding applications.
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Low Friction
Slick surfaces for ultra-low friction and release.
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Low Friction
Slick surfaces for ultra-low friction and release.
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High Friction
Coatings to give you friction, grip, and light absorption.
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High Friction
Coatings to give you friction, grip, and light absorption.
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Friction Shims
Custom made friction shims for all types of joint applications
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Friction Shims
Custom made friction shims for all types of joint applications
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Electroless Nickel
The most extensive line of electroless nickel solutions available.
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Electroless Nickel
The most extensive line of electroless nickel solutions available.
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And more…
More unique and innovative technologies developed by STI.
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And more…
More unique and innovative technologies developed by STI.
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Surface Technology, Inc. is an Innovative
Metal Finishing Company & Coating Specialist
Surface Technology, Inc. is driven to innovate and manufacture. Our team takes pride in taking on challenging applications with an inventive mindset to create solutions for our electroless nickel plating partners and manufactures of components requiring higher performance.
Since 1972, we’ve done this through a unique combination of being both a manufacturer of diamond coatings, plating chemical products and running an active plating job shop. We operate in a solar powered, zero discharge, and environmental award-winning facility with an extensive R&D laboratory.
STI focuses on electroless nickel so we can continually take this technology to new levels. Our products include the breakthrough One-Plate® single component electroless nickel, and high-performance nickel composite coatings with Teflon®, diamond, boron nitride, and silicon carbide.
Just as importantly as the products we have innovated over the years are the products we have yet to develop to meet the needs of our customers, our industry and our world.
Latest News
Zincate Zero® - The Future of Plating on Aluminum
Zincate Zero® has been developed by STI as the first aluminum pretreatment solution to overcome the problems caused by standard zincates. Zincate Zero® prepares aluminum for electroless nickel and other types of plating without contaminating the plating bath - as seen in the following video Click Here
In electroless nickel plating, Zincate Zero® produces excellent adhesion, more consistent quality, bath life up to more than 10 MTO's, significantly reduced waste, and greater productivity and profit
Zincate Zero® is a drop-in solution. Platers can simply replace their old-fashioned zincate with Zincate Zero®. Everything else in the process remains the same. This patent pending solution is free of cyanide, heavy metals, and PFAS materials.
Ni-Grip® Friction Shims
Surface Technology, Inc. is the leading supplier of friction shims. Friction shims are available in large or small quantities from STI with fast delivery times. We manufacture custom friction shims in any shape or size, any thickness, and in multiple levels of roughness depending on the level of friction and grip required. You may also send us your own friction shims, and STI can coat them for you.
Ni-Grip® Friction Shims made by STI are used in countless applications in the automotive, aerospace, wind energy, turbine, machining equipment, robotics, medical, dental, paper and many other industries. These flat ring shims increase the friction, grip, torque, energy transfer and other critical properties of these applications. These friction shims are especially useful in mechanical assemblies, as electric motor shims, as torque converter shims, transmission applications, drive systems and axle shim assemblies where exact alignment is important. Learn more here: Ni-Grip® Friction Shims.