Alticolor

Alticolor is an Italian surface treatment company in Cervarese Santa Croce, in the province of Padua. It treats parts made of titanium, aluminium, steel, carbon and plastic when they need precise processes. Its customers work in the medical, dental, aerospace, automotive and furniture industries. The company describes itself as technological artisans and traces its roots to 1996.

The company was set up in 2008 as a new business built on more than ten years of experience with titanium and aluminium. Early customers came from the biomedical, dental, jewellery, automotive, aviation, sport and food sectors. Alticolor says it was chosen from the start by major firms in the Italian and American markets. In 2023 it marked its fifteenth anniversary.

For titanium, Alticolor offers hard anodising, colour anodising, micro shot-peening, electropolishing, passivation, sandblasting with acid etching, double acid etching and special coatings. For aluminium, it offers natural, hard and colour oxidation, electropolishing, chromic passivation, impregnation and special coatings. On steel, it does electropolishing, passivation, zinc-nickel treatment, chemical deburring and micro shot-peening. Carbon and plastic parts can be washed. Cleanroom assembly is open to every sector.

A team inside the company handles research, development, prototyping and engineering. Alticolor builds processes around the end use of each part. Extra tests that a sector requires are done by accredited laboratories. Manual work gives high precision, and automatic equipment handles other steps. Each phase is monitored all the time.

Alticolor also offers testing and packing services. A scanning electron microscope service checks surface shape and makeup, including roughness and crater depth. A salt spray test checks corrosion resistance. Parts can be packed in a cleanroom to protect them from contamination. These services also work for parts treated by other firms.

The company lists ISO 9001:2015 and EN 9100:2018, the aerospace quality standard. It also holds ISO 13485 for medical devices, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. It has NADCAP accreditation for chemical processing and a Qualanod licence for anodising. In 2022 it fitted a photovoltaic system that halved its use of fossil fuel energy. The company has moved to a new headquarters and says operations run at full capacity.

Services

• Titanium anodising
• Aluminium anodising
• Electropolishing
• Micro shot-peening
• Passivation
• Zinc-nickel treatment
• Chemical deburring
• SEM microscope analysis
• Salt spray testing
• Cleanroom packaging