NADCAP- and ITAR-certified plating for aerospace, automotive, and defense supply chains. Approved by Ford, GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, and Nissan across all processes. Largest cadmium and cadmium-alternative capacity on the West Coast — out of Pacoima, California.
Every process below is performed in-house under NADCAP-controlled chemical processing. Capacity figures are per-line, per-day. Spec callouts are the documented industry and military specifications we plate to.
Steel hardware, brackets, ground-support fittings, automotive aftermarket. The most common and economical plating in the catalog.
Landing-gear components, high-strength steel fasteners, hydraulic fittings, marine and aerospace harsh-environment hardware. Galvanically compatible with aluminum airframes.
Cadmium replacement on landing-gear and high-strength steel. Boeing and Airbus active specs continue to migrate from cadmium to zinc-nickel.
Cadmium alternative for connectors, electronic enclosures, automotive tire-inflation lines. RoHS- and ELV-compliant.
Solderability for electronic and avionics components, food-adjacent hardware, connector contact surfaces.
Hydraulic actuators, valves, dimensional restoration, wear surfaces, complex-geometry parts where rack/barrel plating cannot deposit uniformly.
Aluminum airframe parts requiring corrosion protection and a paint-bonding base. Touch-up of damaged aircraft surface coatings.
Stainless fasteners, fittings, fuel-system components. Removes free iron and forms a protective chromium-rich oxide.
Family-owned since 1965. Continuously NADCAP- and ITAR-certified.
Across two 120-ft fully automated computer-controlled lines plus hand-rack.
Rush-order routing for AOG and critical-path production schedules.
Ford, GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan — published on plating-services.
Every credential below is held by Burbank Plating Service Corp. Items marked verification-pending will publish full scope and identifiers once we share the credential PDFs.
Burbank Plating Service was founded in 1965 in the San Fernando Valley by the Scheer family. In 1985, brothers Andy and Robert Scheer purchased the company from their father and grandfather and have continued to build the same family-run shop into one of the most NADCAP- and ITAR-credentialed metal-finishing operations on the West Coast.
Burbank Plating Service Corp. is established by the Scheer family — father and grandfather to today's owners.
Brothers Andy and Robert Scheer acquire the business and continue its growth as a family-run shop.
OEM approval rosters expand to include Ford, GM, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, and Nissan across all processes. Two fully automated computer-controlled plating lines come online with combined ~70,000 lbs/day capacity.
NADCAP-certified chemical processing, ITAR-registered, with 11 published OEM spec qualifications and the largest cadmium / cadmium-alternative capacity on the West Coast.
“Burbank Plating Service was chosen as our premier plating source because of their metal finishing quality and service they consistently provide to AVK.”
“We just received our 73 pounds of yellow zinc plating today and it looks great! You did it fast and really well.”
“Since discovering Burbank Plating all of my quality and turnaround issues have been resolved!”
Six markets, decades of repeat customers, hundreds of part numbers in active rotation. From a single landing-gear bolt to a 30,000-pound run of barrel-plated fasteners.
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Cadmium offers superior corrosion resistance but costs more. Zinc is economical and adequate for most applications. Cadmium is typically specified for harsh environments such as marine and aerospace use.
We specialize in volume barrel plating. Parts must fit in plastic perforated barrels that move through processing tanks via computer-controlled hoists, rotating slowly through the sequence. Larger parts are processed on our hand-rack line.
Burbank Plating is known for our ability to help when turnaround time is critical. Rush orders can be returned within 24 hours with an expedite charge.
Colors result from chromating after plating. As a rule, the darker the color the more corrosion resistance is added. Ranking from least to most corrosion resistant: White, Blue, Yellow, Black, Olive Drab.
Salt-spray testing places plated parts in a chamber with 5% salt solution at 95°F, with constant atomized spray to accelerate corrosion. Hours-to-failure is the headline measure of finish quality.
There have never been any hidden charges and there never will be. Quoted prices are final.
Tell us what you're plating and we'll come back with pricing, lead time, and any spec questions. For 24-hour expedites, the call is faster.
Drawings, specifications, and technical data subject to ITAR or EAR controls are accepted only after a mutual NDA is in place. Please call us at (818) 899-1157 before sending controlled technical data through this form.