Stainless Steel finishes 1

[donadonie]

Hi All
I work for a company whose products are in stainless steel cabinetry. I have been given the task of checking on possible finishes to the cabinetry such as adding colour and seeing if they were viable for our products. Anyone with info about the different finishing techniques and approx cost of the finish would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[unclesyd]

The first two links are for general information for Stainless Steel finishes and a good handbook. The second is one is a big supplier of commercial finished Stainless Steel.
The third and forth are for a supplier of commercial and special finished Stainless Steel. They offer an inexpensive sample pack.
Any coatings or paint are generally very company specific as one has to have all the environmental parameters for each coating.

http://www.ssina.com/finishes/whichproducts.html

http://www.ssina.com/publications/spe_fin.html

http://www.aksteel.com/pdf/markets_products/stainless/Stainless_

Steel_Comparator.pdf

http://www.quickshipmetals.com/sample-copper-stainless-pak.html

http://www.quickshipmetals.com/304-stainless-steel/34mirror-stain

less-steel-sheet.html

 

[EdStainless]

Here is an example of someone that does electrochemical tinting of SS. The color is permanent.

http://www.millenniumtiles.com/

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Plymouth Tube

 

[donadonie]

Hi Guys
Thanks for the info got me started as to what i am looking for. Alot of the links attached above appear to be for flat panel colouring. Do you know of any companys that colour fabricated/formed stainless steel panels. The panels we have are curved at the ends.

 

[EdStainless]

The tiles are formed pieces with irregular surfaces.
In electrochemical work it usually comes down to the shape of your electrode.

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Plymouth Tube

 

[unclesyd]

Here is another source for colored stainless steel (Prismatic) along with different surface profiles.

If a special pattern is need you can go electro etching. there is a practical limit on size.
In the same line there are companies that do ECM profiling to create eurface patterns in relief.
Look around.

http://www.bmfinishers.com/stainless_steel.html

http://www.universalmarking.com/etching.html