Quality

Quality System

S.E.C. Plating Pty Ltd has in place a fully certified quality system. The Company’s quality management system is certified for compliance with ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems – Requirements (SAI Global certificate number QEC 2894).  
S.E.C. Plating Pty Ltd had British Aerospace Australia approval (No: Bae/AG10496/AUS)

NATA accredited Laboratory

S.E.C.Plating Pty Ltd has a fully equipped, professionally staffed laboratory, capable of performing all solution analysis and testing in addition to an extensive product quality verification capability. S.E.C. Plating laboratory is accredited by National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) for technical competence compliance to ISO/IEC 17025 (Accreditation number 1667).

S.E.C. Plating is the only Australian electroplating facility equipped with a NATA accredited laboratory.

S.E.C. Plating Laboratory is equipped to perform destructive and non-destructive testing on a wide variety of plated coatings, multiple coatings and substrates.

Test methods and equipment used at S.E.C Plating Laboratory include:-

• ISO 3497:2000
  Metallic coatings - measurement of coating thickness - x-ray spectrometric methods
• AS 2331.1.2-2001
  Methods of test for metallic and related coatings - Local thickness tests - Coulometric method
• AS 2331.1.4-2001
  Methods of test for metallic and related coatings - Local thickness tests -  Magnetic induction and eddy current methods
• AS 2331.2.1-2001
  Methods of test for metallic and related coatings - Tests for average coating mass  per unit area or for thickness - Dissolution methods - Strip and weigh and analytical
• X-Ray Flourescence coating thickness tester
• Meniscograph
• Hull Cell
• Harring-blum Cell

The metal finishing specifications that S.E.C. Plating can competently process span national, defence, aerospace, third party standards and specifications including: AS, AMS, ASTM, BS, DEF STAN, ISO, MIL, QQ, automotive & customer specifications.