Use electroless nickel when you need highly uniform deposition on complex geometries and strong corrosion protection. Choose electrolytic nickel when you want improved conductivity, aesthetics, or a bright finish and your part geometry supports line-of-sight plating.
Armoloy Coatings
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Nickel Plating Services
A versatile metal plating solution for corrosion control
Armoloy Coatings
Nickel Plating from Armoloy
Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal renowned for its corrosion and wear resistance, making it an essential protective metal coating across various industries. This durable metal is applied through an electroplating process, where a thin nickel layer is electrodeposited onto surfaces, enhancing their lifespan and appearance. Nickel coatings are particularly valuable in aerospace, automotive, and marine sectors, where they protect against harsh environmental conditions.
The bright, lustrous finish of nickel plating also adds aesthetic value, and when combined with other materials like chromium, their protective qualities are further amplified. This makes nickel coatings a versatile and practical choice for ensuring longevity and performance of metal components.
Details About Armoloy Nickel Coatings
The Armoloy Corporation ensures global manufacturers keep their high precision components up and running with our innovative lineup of nickel coatings.
Armoloy specializes in advanced nickel coatings designed to combat moderate to severe corrosion in machined components. Our offerings include mid-phosphorus electroless nickel, a robust functional coating known for its uniform deposition and excellent corrosion resistance.
Additionally, Armoloy provides Nickel Teflon® (Nyflon®), renowned for its unique combination of low friction and release qualities without the use of PFAS additives. These coatings are applied in thin, yet effective layers ranging from 0.0001 to 0.003 inches, ensuring enhanced durability without impacting the dimensional tolerance of parts. This precision application makes Armoloy’s nickel coatings ideal for critical components where both corrosion resistance and dimensional accuracy are paramount.
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Services at Armoloy
The Armoloy Corporation is here to provide support for your project, starting from the discovery phase and continuing through a successful production launch. Whether coatings are considered during the initial part design phase or become necessary due to product failures in the field, our team can assist you at any stage in the process.
Research & Development
Fully equipped R&D plating lab for test runs, prototyping, and continual development of our plating technologies. Our turnkey approach ensures high-quality outcomes for your project.
Process Development & Validation
Support from design to product launch with coating selection, prototyping, testing, PPAP validation, and plating production on any scale. We also support a range of ASTM and AMS test methods with a NADCAP-certified laboratory.
Fulfillment
The Armoloy Corporation ensures the development of a repeatable plating process that can be achieved at any one of our process fulfillment centers around the world. We will handle prototyping, process validation, cost engineering, and much more.
Qualifications
Certifications & Specifications
Fisher General Specification FGS 8B7, Electroless Nickel Coatings
Fisher General Specification FGS 8B10, Electroless Nickel Coatings
Specification SAE AMS2403N, Nickel Plating General Purpose
SAE Specification AMS2404J, Plating, Electroless Nickel
Specification SAE AMS2405, Electroless Nickel Plating Low Phosphorous
MIL-C26074 Military Specification, Coatings, Electroless Nickel, Requirements
Specification SAE AMS2759/9, Hydrogen Embrittlement Relief (Baking) of Steel Parts
SAE Specification AMS2759/11, Pre-Plate Stress Relief of Steel Parts
AMS 2423E Plating, Nickel, Hard Deposit
AMS 2424F Plating, Nickel Low-Stressed Deposit
Specification AMS 2454 Plating, Electroless Nickel, Codeposited with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
ASTM B733-22 Electroless Nickel-Phosphorus Coatings on Metal
Adding Value. Developing Solutions.
With over 65 years of experience in our field, The Armoloy Corporation helps global manufacturers protect their most valuable, high-tuned machined components with a premium lineup of nickel coatings.
Armoloy’s nickel coatings can eliminate and prevent wear and corrosion across a wide range of industrial applications with two distinct nickel coating products. By increasing the longevity of metal surface applications, Armoloy helps to ensure that organizations avoid unplanned downtime and maintain peak efficiency and performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Typical nickel thickness ranges from 0.0001″ to 0.003″, chosen to meet your functional and dimensional requirements.
Nyflon® is an electroless nickel + PTFE co-deposit that combines corrosion protection with low friction and release properties—useful where clean release and dry-film lubricity matter. Nylfon® is a PFAS-free process.
Yes—Armoloy supports widely used standards such as AMS 2403/2404, AMS 2454 (Ni-PTFE), MIL-C-26074, ASTM B733, and related heat-treat/stress-relief specs (e.g., AMS 2759 series). We’ll confirm clause-level compliance during quoting.
Yes—Armoloy offers R&D test runs, process development/PPAP validation, and scalable production/fulfillment so the qualified process can be repeated at the appropriate facility.
Absolutely. Share your operating media, temperature, geometry, and compliance needs; we’ll advise on mid-phos vs. high-phos EN, electrolytic nickel, or Nyflon® based on corrosion and functional targets.
Yes—Armoloy coordinates quoting, prototyping, and production through its fulfillment model and licensed facilities, making it easy to ship parts in and out.
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