Stainless MicroPolish
Stainless MicroPolish, founded in 1979, is a proprietary stainless steel finishing process that helps manufacturers achieve cleaner, smoother, and more consistent stainless-steel components for demanding applications. The process combines precision polishing, deburring, passivation (removing of free irons), and ultra-cleaning to produce highly refined surfaces.
By removing burrs on machined and laser-cut surfaces, Stainless MicroPolish improves surface quality and component performance while maintaining tolerances as tight as 0.0002 inches. The process is capable of handling complex geometries, including tubing with diameters as small as 0.005 inches, providing a level of precision and cleanliness beyond conventional finishing methods.
Pickling
Pickling removes surface scale and impurities from stainless steel through chemical treatments.
Passivation
Passivation creates a super thin transparent oxide film to protect stainless steel against corrosion and rust.
Polish
Polishing removes burrs and other stainless steel abnormalities, leaving a smooth gleaming finish.
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Industries
Perfecting Stainless Steel Surfaces, because what your parts accomplish, matter.
Stainless MicroPolish applies a proprietary chemical process to improve the surface finish of precise stainless-steel parts and tubes, including narrow diameters of .002”. Each day, we process thousands of parts with a resulting product unequaled by conventional plating, coating, or electropolishing methods. Our key industries include medical and semiconductors.
Medical
Medical device innovators rely on Stainless MicroPolish for precision polishing, passivation, deburring, and ultra-cleaning of stainless-steel components used in demanding medical and analytical applications. From surgical wires and very narrow tubes, needles, cannulas, and other medical devices to advanced laboratory testing equipment, our process supports components requiring exceptional cleanliness, surface quality, and precision.
Applications include:
- Medical endoscope and capillary tubing
- Medical aspiration and hypodermic tubes
- Tubing for analytical instruments, gas chromatography, and HPLC columns, including internal and external surface reduction, polishing, passivation, and bore enhancement
- Drilled cross-hole deburring for transfer valves, connectors, and fittings
- Narrow-diameter tubing and needles
- Removal of oxides created during laser or EDM cutting
- Deburring parts after laser or EDM cutting
Semiconductor
Stainless MicroPolish provides precision polishing, passivation, deburring, and ultra-cleaning of stainless-steel components used in semiconductor manufacturing. These processes help ensure the cleanliness, consistency, and dimensional accuracy required for high-purity and mission-critical applications.
Capabilities include:
- Deburring machine holes as small as 0.005 inches in diameter
- Precision sizing of components to ±0.0003 inches
- Electrochemical burr-free cutting
- Removal of oxides created during laser or EDM cutting
- Polishing of formed, bent, and welded tubing for high-purity gas delivery systems
Other Industries
Stainless MicroPolish applies its proprietary process to a wide variety of stainless steel parts for its customers.
Some of these parts include:
- Guidewires
- Medical device sensors
- Chromatography equipment
- Mass flow controllers
- Wholesale Tubes
- Organic compound canisters
- Formed, swaged, cut, etched, or punched wires and tubes
- Valve Springs
- Base and mounting plates