Metal Fabrication
AFI is a ISO 9001:2015 Certified Fabricating Job Shop that can process jobs ranging from just one part, to thousands. Our capabilities include laser cutting, forming, mig & spot welding, Pemming, saw-cutting, and hand-grinding.
AFI utilizes the most current and innovative fabricating equipment, including;
- Laser Cutting
- Amada 9K Fiber-optic Laser with full palette and shuttle automation
- Maximum sheet size, 80′ wide by 160′ long
- Amada 4K Fiber-optic Laser with full palette and shuttle automation
- Maximum sheet size, 61′ wide by 121′ long
- Specializing in the cutting of aluminum, stainless, and steel up to 1 inch thick
- Amada 9K Fiber-optic Laser with full palette and shuttle automation
- Welding
- Amada Precision Spot Welder
- Several Miller & Lincoln MIG Welders
- Metal Forming
- Cincinnati Press Breaks
- 135 ton, ten-foot bed, six-axis back gauge
- 230 ton, fourteen-foot bed, six-axis back gauge
- Cincinnati Press Breaks
- Pem-Setting
- Haeger 4-station autofeed pem press
- Quality Control Equipment
- Amada Fabrivision QC Scanner
- 4×5 foot Granite Plate
Powder Coating
Aesthetic Finishers can handle all of your powder coating requirements including high and low volume runs, very large parts, masking, and specialty powders.
Powder Coating
- Automatic Powder Coating Line
- 800 feet of overhead conveyor, 7-stage washer with reverse osmosis rinse, 52-foot dry-off oven, Nordson fourteen-gun automatic quick color-change spray booth, 100-foot two-pass cure oven capable of processing parts 3.5 wide by 6 tall by 12 long.
- Large Batch Oven
- Spray Wand pre-treatment capable of powder coating product up to 6 by 7 by 22 feet
- Substrates of steel, aluminum, grey or ductile iron, or aluminum extrusions and castings are capable of passing 1,000 hours of salt spray when processed through our system
Cerakote® Finishing and Ceramic Coating
Cerakote® Finishing
AFI is a certified Cerakote® Commercial Applicator, specializing in the high-volume coating of firearms and large-scale commercial products.
AFI utilizes innovative and up-to-date processing equipment, including:
- Automatic Rotary Table-Blasting machines
- Large-room blasting cabinets with automatic media return
- 2 Robotic coating cells to apply the Cerakote to your product
- Large manual coating booths for large hand-sprayed items
- Bake ovens capable of holding set temperatures of +/- 3º F
- Decorative stenciling also available
Ceramic High-Temperature Resistant Coatings
AFI can handle all of your high temperature resistant and anti-stick coating requirements while servicing the food equipment, industrial and automotive markets.
Thermal and Blast Stripping
AFI offers several thermal and blast stripping methods that remove old coatings and contaminants in order to prep products for new coatings
- Thermal Stripping
- At AFI we feel that the best way to strip old paint, oils, and any other contaminating substances off of a part is to simply “bake” it off
- Substrates are baked at 800º F to remove old coatings
- Blast Stripping
- Plastic Stripping
- Blasting utilizing acrylic media to remove coating off of substrates that cannot take high heat bake off
- Aluminum Oxide
- Glass Bead
- Plastic Stripping
- Chemical Stripping
Pad Printing
When a coated product requires a logo, numbering, or action symbols, the best way to do so is with our pad printing process. Pad printing lends itself to the labeling of flat and radial surfaces ranging from simple cover plates even to baseballs
Pad Print Machines
- 2 Reisch Automatic Machines with shuttle transfer, allowing for two-color printing
