Plating, anodizing and passivation for manufacturers in Monterrey and Nuevo Leon, run at our McAllen, Texas plant just north of the Rio Grande. AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 registered, ITAR registered and DFARS compliant.
Monterrey is the industrial center of northern Mexico: automotive and its tier suppliers, appliance manufacturing, heavy equipment, electrical products and a deep machine shop base. A great deal of that output ships into the United States, and when the customer's print calls out a U.S. military or aerospace specification, the finish generally has to be certified against that specification by a registered supplier. That is the gap we fill, roughly a two-hour run from the border crossing.
MIL-A-8625 Type II and Type III, MIL-DTL-5541 Type I and Type II, AMS-QQ-P-416 cadmium, AMS 2417 zinc-nickel, AMS 2404 electroless nickel, AMS 2700 passivation and QQ-S-365 silver, certified to the revision your customer's print invokes.
Both Gleco plants operate under the same registration. For a Monterrey supplier trying to qualify into an aerospace or defense program, that registration is usually the entry requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
Zinc, zinc-nickel, cadmium, electroless nickel, sulfamate nickel, bright nickel, chem film, Type II and Type III anodize, nitric passivation, tin, gold and silver all run at McAllen.
Send the print. If the callout is obsolete, wrong for the substrate, or specifies something that cannot be achieved as drawn, you will hear it before you have quoted the job to your customer.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 on both sides. 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 paperwork to your program rather than the other way around.
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, a short run north of the Reynosa-Hidalgo and Pharr international bridges. For most Monterrey shippers that is a same-day movement each way once the parts are through the crossing.
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.
Yes. Gleco is AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 registered, ITAR registered and DFARS compliant, and certifies to the specification and revision your customer's purchase order invokes.
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.
Either. Our team works in English and Spanish, so send the print, the specification callout and the purchase order in whichever language your engineering team works in. A Spanish drawing against a U.S. standard is a normal combination here, not an exception.
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
