Incremental improvements and continuous development of tartaric acid/ sulphuric acid anodising plants to replace chromic acid anodising helps fulfil increasing environmental challenges. Plants have been supplied to aerospace manufacturing companies and tier one subcontract suppliers who are demanding increasing performance criteria.

Gee says major benefits include the absence of chrome reduction in the effluent treatment plant with much less waste solids removal. The new processes are said to require less energy, and to reduce process times and production costs at lower operational temperatures.

Gee's electronic control and data management system, G-Plate, Total Operations Processing System, has been developed to benefit the customer with enhance production outputs and NADCAP certification. This is achieved with product traceability and management data logging of all process parameters during processing.