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Setting up a plant to do Alodine process

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Q. Hi dear,

I'll do Alodine in Canada and I want a set up my Alodine plant in India too. So can you tell me is this a good project or not? How much total it cost me if I start in large scale?

Nipun Breja
METAL PRODUCTS - TORONTO, CANADA
2006

A. Based on the large amount of data presented, I know exactly what you need. The answer is quite obviously somewhere from $7 to $7,000,000. With some additional information, we might be able to refine that number down some!

Milt Stevenson, Jr.
Syracuse, New York
2006

A. Hi Nipun. Alodine is a tradename for a chromate conversion coating used in the MIL-DTL-5541 process. You would need an appropriately sized tank line for the sequence of alkaline clean, rinse, etch, rinse, desmut, rinse, chromate conversion coat, rinse, dry ... plus the appropriate auxiliary equipment like heaters, exhaust system, DI rinsing, waste water treatment, material handling, and laboratory. I would pretty confidently refine Milt's numbers to between $70,000 and $700,000.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
July 2 2013

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