Glassbeading

Passivation
Passivation is a process performed to make a surface passive, i.e., a surface film is created that causes the surface to lose its chemical reactivity. Passivation unipotentializes the stainless steel with the oxygen absorbed by the metal surface, creating a monomolecular oxide film. Passivation can result in the very much-desired low corrosion rate of the metal. Passivation is performed on clean stainless steel, providing the surface has been thoroughly cleaned or descaled. Since the term "passivation" is used to describe distinctly different operations or processes relating to stainless steels, it is necessary to define precisely what is meant by passivation.

Mechanical Polishing   
Highland Equipment Limited also specializes in sanitary polishing of stainless steel fabrications. We can have your product mechanically polished ID and OD to 3A standards
or higher finishes.

Electropolishing
Electropolishing is an electrochemical process similar to, but the reverse of, electroplating. The electropolishing process smoothes and streamlines the microscopic surface of a metal object. As a result, the surface of the metal is microscopically featureless, with not even the smallest speck of a torn surface remaining.

In electropolishing, the metal is removed ion by ion from the surface of the metal object being polished. Electrochemistry and the fundamental principles of electrolysis (Faraday's
Law) replace traditional mechanical finishing techniques, including grinding, milling, blasting and buffing as the final finish. In basic terms, the object to be electropolished is