Plating, anodizing and passivation for Nuevo Laredo manufacturers and the Laredo gateway supply base, run at our McAllen, Texas plant. AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 registered, ITAR registered and DFARS compliant.
Nuevo Laredo and Laredo together handle more cross-border freight than any other point on the U.S.-Mexico border. The manufacturing around that gateway runs to transportation equipment, trailers and chassis, material handling hardware, and the machine shops and fabricators feeding plants on both sides. When a U.S. customer's print calls out a specification that has to be certified on the U.S. side, that work has to find a registered finisher.
MIL-A-8625, MIL-DTL-5541, AMS-QQ-P-416, AMS 2417, AMS 2404, AMS 2700 and QQ-S-365 among others, certified to the revision your customer's purchase order invokes.
Transportation and material handling hardware lives outdoors. Zinc-nickel with the right post-treatment carries far more salt spray hours than standard zinc, and we will tell you which one your service condition actually needs.
Both Gleco plants operate under the same registration, which is usually the entry requirement for aerospace and defense work rather than an optional credential.
Send the print. If the callout is obsolete, wrong for the substrate, or cannot be achieved as drawn, you will hear it before you have quoted the job to your customer.
Our team works in English and Spanish — engineering, quoting and the people on the dock. Send the drawing and the purchase order in whichever language your team works in, and expect an answer in the same one.
Most customers move parts under their existing IMMEX or temporary-import arrangements and use their own customs broker. We are a Texas finishing plant, not a broker: what we handle is the process, the inspection and the certification package. Tell us how your parts cross and how they come back, and we will fit our documentation to your program.
Gleco is ITAR registered and runs formal ITAR control measures, so controlled technical data and hardware are handled under those controls rather than treated as ordinary work. Moving controlled items across the border still needs the appropriate U.S. export authorization in place, so tell us the classification when you send the print and we will confirm what is required before anything moves.
The McAllen plant is at 3800 W. Ursula Ave in McAllen, Texas, southeast of Laredo along US-83 and I-69. Most customers on this corridor consolidate releases into a single run rather than shipping lot by lot.
No. Your broker handles the crossing and the temporary-import documentation. We handle the finishing, the inspection and the certification package that travels with the parts.
Zinc and zinc-nickel, cadmium, electroless nickel, sulfamate nickel, bright nickel, chem film, Type II and Type III anodize, nitric passivation, bright tin, gold, matte and bright silver, and bright dip on copper and brass. Alkaline zinc, citric passivation, matte tin, dry film lube and zinc phosphate run at our Rowlett plant.
Gleco is ITAR registered and runs formal ITAR control measures, so controlled technical data and hardware are handled under those controls rather than treated as ordinary work. Moving controlled items across the border still needs the appropriate U.S. export authorization in place, so tell us the classification when you send the print and we will confirm what is required before anything moves.
It depends on the process, the lot size and whether the job needs outside testing. Send the print with your quantity and required date and you will get a real date, not a placeholder.
Two Texas plants under one AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 quality system. Same processes, same certifications, same purchase order.
Tell us the substrate, the specification your customer invokes, and the quantity. We will confirm the process and 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
