surface treatment
Aalberts surface technologies Kaufbeuren
about this location
welcome to Kaufbeuren
In 1955 the location in Kaufbeuren was founded as a family business “Nussbaum Oberflächentechnik”. Since 2019 the company has been renamed Aalberts Surface Technologies GmbH and offers the processes hard anodizing, technical anodizing, color anodizing and polymer coatings.
Our production area in Kaufbeuren is approx. 5,000 m². 150 highly motivated employees coat your components here in a three-shift operation. Our fully automatic plants, as well as our coating robot in the polymer coating, offer a very good reproducibility of the applied processes.
With coating processes such as hard anodizing with NUCOTEC® as well as with NUCOCOMP® and the chromium (VI)-free passivation SurTec® 650, components are refined with high precision. We are your experts for technical anodizing, color anodizing and polymer coating of components.
“Our strength is to respond flexibly to customer wishes, especially when it comes to technical properties of the anodized layers and color requests for anodizing.“
Andreas Humann, plant managing director
our sevices in Kaufbeuren
process overview
| process | max. size in mm | max. weight in kg |
| Color anodizing | 2000x700x400 | 500 |
| Anodizing black | 3400x1100x400 | 500 |
| Anodizing colorless | 3400x1100x400 | 500 |
| HART-COAT® black | 3400x1100x400 | 500 |
| HART-COAT® colorless | 3400x1100x400 | 500 |
| NUCOCOMP® Color anodizing | 2000x700x400 | 500 |
| NUCOCOMP® Anodizing | 3400x1100x400 | 500 |
| NUCOCOMP® Hard anodizing | 2000x700x400 | 500 |
| SURTEC® 650 | 3400x1100x400 | 500 |
coatings
- Anodic layers
- Polymer coatings
- Combination layers of both
- Corrosion protection
- Wear protection
procedures
- Hard anodizing NUCOTEC® HE and NUCOCOMP®.
- Technical anodizing NUCOTEC® EL
- Color anodizing
- Chromium (VI)-free passivation SurTec® 650
- Polymer coating SafeCoat® /TempCoat®
special services
- Partial removal of anodic layers by means of laser technology (laser ablation)
- 100 % visual inspection according to customer specifications
- Wide range of standard colors. Special colors available on request
coating services from Kaufbeuren
Before anodizing, the components are clamped onto specially manufactured anodizing racks to ensure good contact between the articles.
Surfaces that are not to be coated are covered with plugs, adhesive tapes or cover varnishes before anodizing.
Thanks to our proven surface coating, we protect your components from wear and tear and color them individually. Popular colors at the Kaufbeuren site include “black, titanium grey, blue, red and green”.
In hard anodizing, the components are connected as an anode in an electrolyte specially composed for this purpose. The aluminum surface of the workpiece is converted into a hard aluminum oxide layer as a result of the anodic switching. This layer increases protection against corrosion and wear.
In addition, these hard anodized layers have a high degree of hardness.
Technical anodizing is a process of classical anodizing, which is carried out in an acid electrolyte. The workpiece is connected as the anode. Advantages of technically anodized aluminum parts are above all the good corrosion and wear protection.
Our polymer coatings improve the non-stick and sliding properties as well as the corrosion protection of your components. In our fully automated plant we are able to apply polymer coatings to the components with a high degree of process accuracy.
NUCOCOMP® refers to aluminum oxide polymer composite layers for aluminum alloys. The layers are formed by anodic oxidation of the base material and simultaneous molecular compounding of the aluminum oxide layer with polymers.
quality and know-how
advantages
The advantages of the coating systems at the Kaufbeuren plant include, depending on the choice of process
- High corrosion protection
- Improved non-stick properties
- Improvement of the sliding properties
- Optimum layer bonding
- High thermal insulation
- High electrical insulation effect
- Good dimensional stability
- Temperature resistance
- Decorative surfaces
- Improvement of the thermal emissivity of the surface
In order to optimally meet customer requirements, the Kaufbeuren plant attaches great importance to process monitoring and reproducible processes. In addition to series parts, we also have the flexibility to respond to individual customer requirements.
fields of application
The color anodizing of aluminum components is widely used in electrical engineering, the bicycle industry and the automotive industry.
Every year we coat millions of tire valves for automatic air pressure monitoring with hard anodizing and technical anodizing.
With our polymer coatings we coat die-cast engine components for commercial vehicles. This coating improves corrosion resistance and thus significantly extends the service life of the engines.
Contact our team and together we will find a solution for your requirements.
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our inhouse processes
We are the right partner for both new parts business and component maintenance. In addition to offering various coating processes, like hard anodizing and anodizing, our competence also includes partial coating of components and keeping technically necessary areas of the components free from coating.
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Aalberts Surface Technologies GmbH