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Electroless Nickel

The Varland Advantage:

At Varland Plating, we set the standard for precision and consistency with our advanced Electroless Nickel (EN) plating solutions. Whether your project requires Mid-Phosphorus (5-9% Phos) for enhanced hardness or High-Phosphorus (10-13% Phos) for superior corrosion resistance, our cutting-edge facilities and expert team deliver exceptional results with speed and reliability, tailored to your specific needs.

  • Unrivaled Automation: Our state-of-the-art, fully automated EN plating line guarantees total control over every aspect of the process—barrel speed, amperage, voltage, and plating time—resulting in perfectly tailored deposits with unparalleled uniformity. Every job is tracked with historical electronic records, ensuring precision, quality, and full traceability.

  • Precision Verified: We utilize advanced x-ray fluorescence to ensure accurate plating thickness, delivering consistent and high-quality results every time.

  • Customized Hardness Solutions: Boost mechanical wear resistance with our high-temperature bake in inert atmosphere ovens. Whether you need enhanced hardness or greater corrosion resistance, we can tailor the process to optimize your components’ performance.

Why Choose Electroless Nickel?

  • Flawless Uniformity: Our Electroless Nickel plating delivers a perfectly even coating on complex geometries, internal cavities, and irregular surfaces—ensuring complete coverage and top-tier performance, even in the most challenging applications.

  • Semi-Bright, Premium Finish: Achieve an attractive, semi-bright finish that not only enhances the aesthetic appeal but also boosts the durability of your components, ensuring they look great and last longer.

  • Mid or High Phosphorus—Your Choice: Our customizable EN process allows you to choose between Mid-Phosphorus for increased hardness and mechanical wear resistance or High-Phosphorus for superior corrosion resistance—particularly vital in aggressive environments.

Tailored Electroless Nickel Solutions

At Varland Plating, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Your project’s needs are unique, and so is our approach. Whether you’re after increased wear resistance, corrosion protection, or a combination of both, our highly adaptable EN plating process delivers tailored results that exceed expectations. We collaborate closely with our clients to ensure each component performs flawlessly under even the most demanding conditions.

Speed and Precision: With both automated and manual lines, we can handle both large-scale and specialty projects with unmatched efficiency, delivering top-quality EN finishes quickly and reliably.

Unmatched Commitment to Quality

Quality isn’t just a promise—it’s built into every step of our Electroless Nickel plating process. From the initial consultation to the final inspection, we deploy the latest technology, strict quality control measures, and decades of expertise to ensure that your components meet the highest industry standards. Trust Varland Plating to not only meet but exceed your plating needs, providing a full-service metal finishing solution.

Industry Leadership: With decades of experience, Varland Plating stands at the forefront of metal finishing innovation. We’re more than just a service provider—we’re a partner in ensuring the long-term performance and durability of your components.

Performance You Can Count On: Backed by rigorous testing and quality assurance, Varland’s Electroless Nickel plating guarantees results that last. Protect your investment with EN plating that withstands mechanical wear, corrosive environments, and the test of time.

Learn more about our 80-year history as a third-generation, family-run business. Discover how our expert team delivers industry-leading quality and service through technology and innovation.

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Joel Perrine, V.P. of operations with Products Finishing, highlighting some of the unique features of our new automatic EN line and it's customized software, as well as the team’s challenges during the design process.

Specifications

Varland plates thousands of different parts for a diverse customer base across a wide range of industries. Some common plating specifications are listed with our processes, but we have experience with many more.

When you choose Varland, we review any applicable specifications to ensure we can meet all the necessary parameters. We won’t put our name on something we don’t understand and that we’re not confident we can complete in accordance with your quality requirements.

  • Autocatalytic (Electroless) Nickel-Phosphorus Coatings on Metal

  • Plating, Electroless Nickel

  • Military Specification for Electroless Nickel

New Electroless Nickel Automatic

Varland Plating is very excited to announce that our new electroless nickel automatic plating line is fully online and running production work. We invested significantly in this line, partnering with leading industry experts in plating chemistry, line design, and automation. Our vision was to work with other experts in the field on the foundation of this new automatic line and then leverage our unique expertise to develop a line that is truly second to none. As of late 2023, that vision has been realized.

If you are in need of electroless nickel plating, reach out to a member of our sales team today and let us solve your EN plating problems. Varland has been a leader in electroless nickel plating for years, and this line allows us to reach even higher heights.

Brian Mangold, President

“For several years, Varland has seen consistent growth in the demand for electroless nickel plating. Our new automated electroless nickel line has significantly expanded Varland’s capacity and allowed us to reach new levels of flexibility, efficiency, and quality. EN is a challenging but exciting process, and this new line perfectly positions Varland as a premier electroless nickel plater.”