For Your 3D-Printed Post-Processing Needs, Look No Further Than Bel Air Finishing!

Bel Air Finishing Supply, established in 1966, has over 50 years of experience in serving the worldwide jewelry manufacturing industry. Bel Air now offers its wide variety of finishing techniques to the 3D printing and additive manufacturing industries. Listed below are the services that Bel Air offer’s to its customers. Whether you print your parts or have them printed for you, we can formulate processes to meet the finishing requirements for any product. In addition to surface finishing of both metal and plastic, we also provide coating, electroplating, dyeing, and surface analysis (metrology).

Metal Surface Finishing

Most of our customers cannot define the specification for the type of surface finish that they require for their 3D printed metal part. They know what they want but do not have a specification for it. Using our process technology, we can define a repeatable manufacturing process to achieve the surface finish you desire for your metal parts.

Plastic Surface Finishing

A lot of our customers cannot describe the specification for the type of surface finish that they require for their 3D printed plastic part. They know what they want but do not have a specification for it. Using our process technology, we can define a repeatable manufacturing process to achieve the desired surface finish for your plastic parts.

Coating

As a service provider for the coating of plastic parts, we offer various coating options: satin aluminizing, satin black coating, color coating pre-finish, aluminizing, and color coating raw.

Dyeing

The dyeing of 3D-printed nylon parts is a developing technology and is entering mainstream production. Automated & semi-automated systems are available for dyeing HP PA-11 & PA-12, as well as other 3D plastics.

Surface Finish Metrology

Our surface metrology services utilize non-contact white light interferometry technology. Our metrology team will analyze and develop a manufacturing recipe to qualify the surface finish you desire and your customers’ demands.

Electroplating

Electroplating can be applied to a variety of plastic and metal 3D-printed materials. Our state-of-the-art electroplating facility provides depositions of copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), silver (Ag), Gold (Au), and Palladium (Pd).

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