Plating and coating for Mission fabricators and equipment builders, run about fifteen minutes east at our McAllen plant. Corrosion protection specified properly, with certification documents that hold up.
Mission’s manufacturing leans toward fabrication, agricultural and field equipment, and oilfield service hardware. Most of that work lives outdoors, which makes corrosion the governing requirement rather than appearance. Choosing the finish on price alone is how parts come back rusted a season later.
Zinc to ASTM B633 handles a great deal. Zinc-nickel to AMS 2417 carries considerably more salt spray and holds up where plain zinc will not. We will tell you which your service environment actually needs, including when the cheaper one is fine.
Electroless nickel deposits at an even thickness in bores, blind holes and threads, where an electroplated deposit thins out. For hydraulic and field hardware that geometry advantage is often the whole reason to specify it.
AMS 2417, ASTM B633, AMS 2404, MIL-DTL-5541 and MIL-A-8625 among others, with a Certificate of Conformance citing the revision your purchase order invokes.
Tell us which surfaces must stay clean, which threads must stay free and where the part can hang. Getting that agreed before the first lot saves a rework cycle.
The McAllen plant sits at 3800 W. Ursula Ave, a short run east from Mission along the US-83 corridor. That proximity is what makes a finishing step practical for lower-value, higher-volume fabricated parts: freight stops being a meaningful share of the piece cost.
Hot-dip galvanizing and powder coating are different processes with different economics. If that is what your part actually needs, we will say so — our coatings division runs powder and liquid paint in Rowlett.
Zinc-nickel carries substantially more salt spray hours than plain zinc and holds up better at elevated temperature, but it costs more. For sheltered or intermittent exposure, zinc with a trivalent chromate is often enough. Tell us the service environment and we will make the call with you.
About fifteen minutes east along the US-83 corridor, at 3800 W. Ursula Ave in McAllen.
It depends on the process and the geometry. Send the overall dimensions with the print and we will tell you whether it fits our tanks and how we would rack it.
Not at the plating plants. Our coatings division, Gleco Paint and Powder Coating, runs powder, industrial liquid paint, CARC and Cerakote in Rowlett, and it is the same company on one purchase order.
Yes, every deposit adds thickness. How much depends on the process and the class called out. If your part has toleranced features, say so on the print and we will confirm the build before running it.
The McAllen plant covers the Valley from Mission through to Brownsville. Same processes, same certifications, same purchase order.
Tell us the substrate, the service environment and the quantity. We will recommend the finish and confirm a real lead time.
Precision metal finishing since 1979. Plating, anodizing, coatings and passivation from three Texas facilities.
Our paint, powder & Cerakote division: Gleco Paint & Powder Coating
Gleco Rowlett
2220 Grisham Drive
Rowlett, TX 75088
972-475-4300
Gleco McAllen
3800 W. Ursula Ave
McAllen, TX 78503
956-800-4069
