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    Color fade Issue with anodized aluminum

    I found some new images for reference This is a close up photo,
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    Color fade Issue with anodized aluminum

    Do you recommend anodizing type II for this application? We choose hard anodizing to prevent scratches during usage. Usual practice at our vendor is to seal the color at 95 °C water. What sort of coating did the previous version of iPhone (aluminum back) used to have? We are looking to get...
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    Color fade Issue with anodized aluminum

    Is in the Bay area by the sea. The supplied raw aluminum is white anodized (not sure of the grade), then we send it for reanodizing (hard anodizing to prevent scratches). The patches are not completely white; they are off-blue and tend towards ash white color. Post blue coat it was sealed in...
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    Color fade Issue with anodized aluminum

    I have anodized aluminium products in a very specific shade of color. It is hard anodized. Our usual customer base is in the Dry region, for the first time we shipped it to the West coast of USA. Within the first few weeks, we started noticing patches of faded colour on the product. I would...

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