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.

Safety in the Anodizing Industry

Learn about aluminum anodizing, the technology that makes aluminum look like aluminum and stay in good shape, in things from window frames and jet planes to your iPhone.  Join George, Tej, Nathan, and Mark from the Aluminum Anodizers Council, with guest speakers talking about topics from process best practices to regulatory issues to environmental impact to Where is anodization even used?  Tune in if you’re an anodizer, or you want to use anodizing to put color in your aluminum, or if you just think running loads of electricity through metal and acid sounds fun.