Services

Metal Fabrication

AFI is an ISO 9001:2015 Certified Fabricating Job Shop that can process jobs ranging from just one part to thousands.

Our capabilities include laser cutting, forming, MIG and spot welding, Pemming, saw-cutting and hand-grinding.

Laser Cutting

• Amada 9K Fiber-optic Laser with full palette and shuttle automation
• Amada 4K Fiber-optic Laser with full palette and shuttle automation
• Cutting of aluminum, stainless and steel up to 1 inch thick

Welding

• Amada Precision Spot Welder
• Several Miller & Lincoln MIG Welders

Metal Forming

• Cincinnati Press Breaks
• 135 ton, ten-foot bed, six-axis back gauge
• 230 ton, fourteen-foot bed, six-axis back gauge

Pem-Setting

• Haeger 4-station autofeed pem press

Quality Control Equipment

• Amada Fabrivision QC Scanner
• 4×5 foot Granite Plate

Powder Coating

Aesthetic Finishers can handle all of your powder coating requirements including high and low volume runs, very large parts, masking, and specialty powders.

Automatic Powder Coating Line: 800 feet of overhead conveyor, 7-stage washer with reverse osmosis rinse, 52-foot dry-off oven, Nordson fourteen-gun automatic quick color-change spray booth, and a 100-foot two-pass cure oven capable of processing parts 3.5 wide by 6 tall by 12 long.

Large Batch Oven: Spray Wand pre-treatment, capable of powder coating product up to 6 by 7 by 22 feet.

Substrates of steel, aluminum, grey or ductile iron, or aluminum extrusions and castings are capable of passing 1,000 hours of salt spray when processed through our system.

Our powder coating lines can accommodate rack legs up to 16 feet tall.

Cerakote® Finishing and Ceramic Coating

AFI is a certified Cerakote® Commercial Applicator, specializing in the high-volume coating of firearms and large-scale commercial products.

AFI utilizes innovative and up-to-date processing equipment, including:

• Automatic Rotary Table-Blasting machines
• Large-room blasting cabinets with automatic media return
• 2 Robotic coating cells to apply the Cerakote to your product
• Large manual coating booths for large hand-sprayed items
• Bake ovens capable of holding set temperatures of +/- 3º F
• Decorative stenciling also available

Ceramic High-Temperature Resistant Coatings: AFI can handle all of your high temperature resistant and anti-stick coating requirements while servicing the food equipment, industrial and automotive markets.

Thermal and Blast Stripping

AFI offers several thermal and blast stripping methods that remove old coatings and contaminants in order to prep products for new coatings.

Thermal Stripping: At AFI we feel that the best way to strip old paint, oils, and any other contaminating substances off of a part is to simply “bake” it off.

Our thermal stripping oven strips one large part, such as a complete car body, or hundreds of small parts at a time.

Unlike acid stripping, there is no un-neutralized acid trapped between lapped and welded material that can outgas in the powder coating process or cause future rusting.

Because we bake at 800 degrees for four hours, it will not distort your metal parts but will turn to ash all paint, undercoating and body fillers.

Blast Stripping: plastic, aluminum oxide and glass bead blasting.

Our glass bead blasting room handles large industrial items and complete car bodies.

Delicate parts such as car wheels and industrial die castings are blasted in our plastic media cabinet while AFI’S one of a kind automatic al oxide cabinet handles all of the high volume parts.

Plastic stripping uses acrylic media to remove coating from substrates that cannot take a high heat bake off.

Chemical Stripping

Pad Printing

When a coated product requires a logo, numbering, or action symbols, the best way to do so is with our pad printing process.

Pad printing labels flat and radial surfaces, from simple cover plates to baseballs.

Pad Print Machines: 2 Reisch Automatic Machines with shuttle transfer, allowing for two-color printing.