Aviation
Metal Surfaces (MSI) is accredited by Nadcap for Chemical Processing, AS 9100 Certified, and approved as an FAA Repair Station. MSI is also a registered ITAR company.
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NASA, JPL, Cal Tech, Virgin Galactic, Aerojet, Rocketdyne, Pratt Whitney, and UTA, all have relied on MSI to help propel their crafts to space and on to distant planets to explore the solar system.
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MSI maintains a quality system for the automotive industry through our certification to ISO/TS 16949. We are certified for “engineered electroplating and surface finishing to the automotive industry”.
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MSI is currently providing nickel, gold, silver and tin plating for products that are used to monitor blood for diabetics, temperature devices for ears. Components processed by MSI are also used in instrumentation used for DNA analysis.
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The military, communications, electronics and semiconductor industries all rely on MSI’s plating processes. With electroless black nickel, black chrome, zinc-nickel, chemfilms and plating on composite processes, MSI helps our customer.
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Metal Surfaces (MSI) was established in 1954 to provide precision plating to the Aviation, Aerospace, Electronic, Interconnect, Military, Automotive and Medical industries. Its commitment to quality is confirmed by certification to ISO 9001-2015, AS9100 REV D, Nadcap-CP, FAA Repair Station, and IATF 16949. MSI is ITAR certified and able to comply with RoHS, WEE standards when specified. As one of the largest precision plating firms in North America, MSI is approved to provide precision plating by most of the primes in the Aviation, Aerospace, Electronic, Interconnect and Automotive fields. Located in Bell Gardens, California with a facility over 70,000 square feet, MSI provides 12, 110 foot reel-to-reel plating lines and a wide range of rack, barrel and individual plating resources. There is also a growing composite plating department for precision plating on plastics and other non-conductive materials.