Gleco Plating is registered with the U.S. State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. Both Texas plants run under an AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 quality system, DFARS compliant, with full lot traceability and all processing performed in the United States.
Gleco Plating is registered with the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Both Texas plants operate under an AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 quality system and are DFARS compliant.
If you are sourcing a finisher for hardware on the U.S. Munitions List, registration status is usually the first filter applied and the fastest way to shorten a supplier list. Here is what ours means in practice.
ITAR registration is a statutory prerequisite, not a quality certification. Any U.S. manufacturer or exporter of defense articles or defense services is required to register with DDTC and renew annually.
Two further distinctions worth being precise about. Registration does not by itself authorize export — it establishes eligibility to apply for licences and agreements; export of a defense article or of controlled technical data still requires the appropriate authorization. And registration says nothing about a supplier’s controls. It is a filing. What matters to a prime is how the supplier actually handles controlled hardware and technical data, which is the rest of this page.
| ITAR | Registered with the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC). Current, and renewed annually. |
| Registration code | Provided on request to qualified customers, on a purchase order or under NDA. Not published. |
| Quality system | AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015. |
| DFARS | Compliant, including specialty metals flow-down under DFARS 252.225-7009. |
| Facilities | Rowlett, Texas and McAllen, Texas. All processing performed in the United States. |
| Traceability | Full lot traceability on every order. |
We do not publish our DDTC registration code. Anyone who does is handing it to whoever wants to misrepresent themselves as a registered supplier. Ask and we will provide it through a channel that makes sense.
Everything stays in the United States. Both plants are U.S.-based and no processing is outsourced offshore. Parts do not cross a border to be finished and come back.
Controlled work is identified before it starts. ITAR-controlled hardware is flagged at contract review, marked, and access is restricted to authorized personnel under our written ITAR compliance program.
Technical data stays inside. Drawings, specifications and process data supplied with a controlled part are not forwarded outside the company.
Contract review happens before the first part is plated. If a drawing carries an export-control marking, a distribution statement, or a specification we need to clarify, we raise it up front. Discovering a problem after a lot has been processed serves nobody.
| Process | Specification | Rowlett | McAllen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cadmium | AMS-QQ-P-416 · AMS 2400 | — | Yes |
| Zinc-Nickel | AMS 2417 | Yes | Yes |
| Type II Anodize | MIL-A-8625 | Yes | Yes |
| Type III Hardcoat Anodize | MIL-A-8625 | — | Yes |
| Chemical Film | MIL-DTL-5541 | Yes | Yes |
| Electroless Nickel | AMS 2404 | Yes | Yes |
| Sulfamate Nickel | AMS 2424 | — | Yes |
| Silver | QQ-S-365 · AMS 2410/2411/2412 | Yes | Yes |
| Gold | MIL-DTL-45204 | — | Yes |
| Passivation | AMS 2700 | Yes | Yes |
| Dry Film Lubricant | MIL-PRF-46010 | Yes | — |
Yes. Gleco Plating is registered with the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, and the registration is renewed annually.
No. There is no ITAR certification. Registration is a required filing with DDTC for U.S. manufacturers and exporters of defense articles. Any supplier advertising itself as “ITAR certified” is describing something that does not exist.
Yes, to qualified customers on request — on a purchase order or under NDA. We do not publish it, because a published registration code is trivially easy for someone else to quote as their own.
Yes. Drawings, specifications and process data supplied with controlled hardware are handled as controlled technical data and are not forwarded outside the company.
Both plants handle controlled work. The right one depends on the process — cadmium, Type III hardcoat, gold and sulfamate nickel run at McAllen; alkaline zinc, citric passivation and dry film lubricant run at Rowlett. Send the drawing and we will route it.
Send the print and we’ll tell you. Quotes typically back within one business day, from either plant.
Precision metal finishing since 1979. Plating, anodizing, coatings and passivation from two Texas plants.
Gleco Rowlett
2220 Grisham Drive
Rowlett, TX 75088
972-475-4300
Gleco McAllen
3800 W. Ursula Ave
McAllen, TX 78503
956-800-4069
