RP Abrasives' passivation and metal finishing services provide more than just a rust resistant surface to your stainless steel parts. We use citric acid baths, ultrasonics, and proprietary processes to ensure that your metal finish is of the highest quality possible. We don't just provide passivated parts, we provide clean passivated parts. And we are but one of a few job shops that can handle metals and plastics with equal success.

This is what makes us America's Finishing Experts. 

What are the some of the things we can do to help our customers achieve their goals? Through our many processes; such as bead/shot blasting, vibratory & high energy tumbling, wheel & hand deburring, and finally buffing & polishing. We can achieve just about any finish you desire.

We also offer a number of specialized cleaning processes such as Aluminum cleaning, Stainless Steel cleaning, Titanium cleaning, Plastics cleaning, along with Citric Passivation and Clean room packaging. This allows us to be a "one stop shop" for many of our customers. If your parts need Plating, Anodizing, or Coating we can refer you to, or work with a number of companies that we partner with.

We operate in a job shop environment and are committed to meeting or exceeding our customer's goals for on time delivery. Responsiveness and Quality are hallmarks with us. We have and can handle batch sizes ranging anywhere from 1 to 100,000 pieces or more, in fact we have one customer whose batch size is 1,000,000 pieces.

Whether it's a one of a kind part, a $60,000 prototype part, or 5 million parts that need to be done for a penny apiece, we're sure we can exceed your expectations and provide you with an unmatched quality finish.

Samples are done free of charge. Whether it is 1 or 100 we will work with you until we achieve the finish you desire.

The RPA Way

We often will combine different operations to achieve our customers requests, whether it's for burr removal or a particular finish. Combining different operations allows us to find a creative solution to a customers deburring or finishing needs, such as any combination of; blasting, buffing, polishing, tumbling, and passivation may be needed to reach the customers goal for a particular part. ( (Some of our many deburring and finishing methods are:

• Mass Finishing
  
  • vibratory tumbling
  • Bowl and Tub
  • High Energy tumbling bead blasting
• Bead Blasting
  • Micro blasting ( or pencil blasting)
  • Hand blasting
  • Batch blasting
• Custom Automated deburring and polishing
• Hand Deburring
• Finishing (from brushed to mirror)
• Tapping and countersinking
• Tube polishing ( bore polishing)passivation
• Specialty wash processes
• Clean room packaging

The markets our customers serve

• Computer
• Aerospace
• Electronics
• Instrumentation
• Laser
• Military
• Optics
• Food industry
• Medical
• Surgical
• Semiconductor
• General Manufacturing