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.