Non-Nickel Sealing 

Pinakin Patel, Founder and President of Techevon LLC, with decades of experience in the anodizing industry, talks about the different anodizing sealing methods – and focuses specifically on non-nickel sealing – in this episode of ANO-Talk: All Things Anodizing. He talks with our hosts, George Oh, Mark Spencer and Tej Patel about this mid-temperature range (180-200 degrees F/82-93 Celsius) sealing method, the pros and cons, the chemistry involved in the process, why anodizers use non-nickel seals, when and how it is used, the effect on dyes, and the non-nickel seals currently available on the market.