Electroless nickel — uniform deposit thickness regardless of geometry, including inside bores and blind features — plated at our Rowlett plant for Fort Worth aerospace and industrial work. AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 registered, ITAR registered.
Electroless nickel is chosen when geometry defeats electroplating. Because the deposit is chemical rather than electrical, it lays down at essentially the same thickness on a flat, in a bore and inside a blind hole — which is exactly where racked plating runs thin.
Internal diameters, blind holes, recesses and threads all take the same build. That is the reason to specify it, and it is why it costs more than a racked nickel.
Low, medium and high phosphorus deposits behave differently on corrosion, hardness and magnetic response. If your print specifies a range, call it out; if it does not, tell us the service and we will recommend one.
Because the build is uniform, the dimensional effect is predictable — which is why electroless nickel appears so often on close-tolerance hydraulic and valve components.
High-strength steel requires an embrittlement relief bake per ASTM B850, and heat treatment is also used to raise deposit hardness where the specification calls for it. Both have to be on the purchase order.
Roughly 50 miles from Fort Worth to Rowlett, about an hour on I-30. Most work in this corridor moves by freight. Standard turnaround is about three weeks from receipt of complete material and a complete purchase order.
A note on what you may be finding in search: at least one page ranking for electroless nickel in Dallas belongs to a California shop with a 760 area code. Being able to reach your finisher in an hour, and being able to audit them, is worth something the first time a lot is questioned.
Geometry. Electroplating follows the electrical field, so recesses, bores and blind features run thin. Electroless nickel deposits chemically and lays down uniformly regardless of shape. If your part is a flat plate, electroplated nickel is usually the cheaper answer.
It depends what you need. The ranges differ meaningfully on corrosion resistance, as-plated hardness and magnetic response. If the print specifies one, we run it; if not, tell us the service environment and we will recommend one. See our electroless nickel page.
Yes, where the specification calls for it. Bear in mind that a heat treatment is a thermal cycle applied to your part — if the substrate is temper-sensitive, that is a conversation to have before the order rather than after.
Yes, per ASTM B850 where the material condition requires it. Identify the requirement, the material condition and the governing specification on the purchase order — baking has to begin promptly after plating.
Yes, along with ISO 9001:2015, and we are ITAR registered and DFARS compliant. The certificate is downloadable and we will send it to your supplier quality group directly.
This page covers sourcing electroless nickel in Fort Worth. If you are specifying phosphorus content or post-plate bake, these go deeper.
Send the print with the specification, phosphorus range if called out, thickness and any bake or heat treat requirement.
Precision metal finishing since 1979. Plating, anodizing, coatings and passivation from two Texas plants.
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
