Finish Types and Options for Industrial Products

Let CalCo Finish Your Product

Sometimes pumps, valves, engines, bearings or other industrial equipment don’t start off as beautiful show pieces. With CalCo’s help that can all change. Imagine your product as a colorful, shining display pulling in potential buyers and selling itself. That is what a good display or cutaway can do. Your product looks exciting, new and its true function can be seen and admired.

Let CalCo take your product from plain to dazzling with the following options:

Our Standard Show Finish is durable, very attractive high gloss finish.  All parts are disassembled and prepped for finish and our standard automotive paint finish is administered over an etching primer.  Cost-effective plating options are available for metal fasteners and key components .  Many additional options are available including clear coat finish as well as minor grinding and smoothing of casting seams and imperfections.

Our Euro-Deluxe Finish is used primarily for trade shows, product introductions and corporate lobby installations. All surfaces are ground and smoothed to remove imperfections from casting or welding. These surfaces are then prepped repetitively with several stages of filler and hand sanding. Finally, the display is finished with multiple automotive paint steps and a clear coat finish. Metal fasteners are carefully polished by hand then chrome plated and polished again to a mirror finish.

Training Finish surfaces are prepped and painted but not treated to remove casting imperfections. The finish is attractive yet durable and is easy to maintain. For displays that are needed for working models, we may recommend electro less nickel-plating to enhance component movement.

In addition to having the surfaces of your product ground and painted CalCo can take the hardware on your product and make it shine too with a number of plating options:

Anodizing is an attractive way to prepare aluminum and is available in a variety of colors.

Electro-less Nickel is durable, minimal-build plating that covers evenly with very good lubricity and hardness.

Metal plating – Copper, nickel, gold and industrial hard plating are also available.

Chrome plating is available in bright, polished or satin finishes and can be applied to any metal.

Black Oxide for steel or iron parts is used when a blue/black matte finish is desired.

Once your product looks great it can be mounted on a standard aluminum base or a custom base can be created.  We make custom shipping containers to protect your product in transit too.

Contact CalCo at 847/639-3858 or click here if you would like to discuss your product and learn how CalCo can help show your product in it’s best light.

Damaged Freight? CalCo Has You Covered.

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Products get damaged during shipping all too often. Fortunately, at CalCo we can make your damaged product look as good as new. There is nothing more frustrating then getting ready to go to a show and finding that your display piece has been scratched, dented or severely damaged while it was being shipped.

If you need to have your product repaired , repainted or rechromed give CalCo a call at 847-639-3858 or click here and have it made to look like new again.

Out of the Ordinary Paint Finishes

Do you want your product to stand out from the crowd?

Give your product that extra “WOW” factor with an exotic paint finish. CalCo’s expert paint technicians offer a Thermal Reactive Color Change finish, Super Metallic base coats and the Ultra Exotic Textured finish with three dimensional depth. In addition we offer a rainbow of colors in Pearl, Neon, Flake or Kandy paint finishes.

Use a custom CalCo paint finish to make your product shine like the jewel that it is!

Whether at your tradeshow, in your lobby or on sales calls...that should get them talking!

Click here to contact CalCo or call 847/639-3858 for some out of the ordinary paint finishes and product displays.

CalCo reworks displays to look as good as NEW

If you have a display or cutaway that is beginning to show its age we are happy to rework it. After being shipped from show to show and being handled and touched by countless people every display can begin to show some wear. Whether it needs a new paint job or you want to add a cutaway section you can send it to us and feel confident that we will do our best to make it look as good as new even if we didn’t do the original work. Save some money on shipping and do it when you are at a show near Chicago!

If we can do this…….

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then we can do almost anything!

Contact us at news@calcocutaways.com, call 847/639-3858 or click here.

Cut face paint, where the Outer meets the Inner

When opting for a cutaway, the point is to show off the internal components and passageways that are typically hidden from view.

Alongside this process is that peculiar area that gets exposed which is actually the area inside the metal that gets exposed.

In this area CalCo applies their signature cut face paint for a number of reasons:

1. To let the audience know that the display is actually a cutaway
2. To cover up any minor casting imperfections that may appear
3. Help prevent this newly exposed metal from showing signs of corrosion over time

CalCo knows the difference between professional looking displays and basic showiness. You can be rest assured that CalCo cutaways will draw people in to talk about your great products and the benefits that the cutaways are showing.

Click here for contact information for CalCo or call 847-639-3858.