Bright dipping anodizing, the secret for shiny aluminum tile trim

Bright dipping anodizing, the secret for shiny aluminum tile trim

Bright dipping anodizing

Bright dipping anodizing for shiny aluminum tile trim

For the high glossiness and shiny aluminum tile trim, mechanical polishing through aluminum polishing machine is necessary before the anodizing, but for high quality and mirror-like look aluminum tile trim, that is not enough.

The bright dipping anodizing is a must for very shiny colors.

What is the bright dipping anodizing

Chemical polishing of aluminum, often by treatment with a mixture of nitric acid and phosphoric acid, yielding a mirror-shiny (specular), highly reflective surface.

It is almost always followed by anodizing to protect the surface and provide some choice of colors.

Bright dipping anodizing involves two consecutive finishing processes:

The first one is bright dipping, which gives your extrusions a bright specular (or mirror) finish.

The second process, anodizing, adds extra corrosion protection.

Aluminum profiles are bright dipped, which means they’re bathed in a solution of phosphoric and nitric acid.

This smoothes out the microscopic, rough peaks and valleys on the aluminum surface and makes it very shiny.

After bright dipping, the extrusions are anodized.

Anodization is a process that thickens the aluminum’s naturally occurring oxide layer.

This layer protects the aluminum from corrosion. The anodized extrusions will have added corrosion resistance.

The enhanced oxide layer has lots of tiny pores on its surface, which makes it ideal for dying.

Different colored dyes can go into those tiny pores before the oxide layer gets sealed. Once it’s sealed, the color is locked in and it is extremely resistant to fading.

Bright dipped anodized profiles features will be following:

Will be very shiny and mirror-like look

Will be corrosion resistant

Can be dyed in different colors

Bright dipping provides a very shiny, mirror-like look for aluminum extrusion and Bright Dip anodizing enhances the glossy appearance of aluminum for cosmetic applications and achieves a highly reflective surface finish similar to mechanical polishing, but more than mechanical polishing.

So in Honstar aluminum products, we make the mechanical polished 6463 alloy aluminum tile trim product bright dipped, then we get very shiny and mirror-like look aluminum floor covering products.

If you are looking for high quality and high glossiness aluminum tile trim, bright dip anodizing plus mechanical polishing are something to consider.

We use certificated 6463 alloy ingots for the extrusion and we have our own bright dipping anodizing workshop with the production license.

Extruding, polishing and bright dipping anodizing under one roof allows for minimized lead times, reduced production costs, and improved end-product quality to our valued customers.

It avoids finger-pointing between subcontractors and the extruder if defects occur, reducing potential customer headaches. 

Contact us for floor covering aluminum profiles solution.