Paints and primers are another specialty at Novation. With twenty years of experience in commercial and military paints and primers, their paint and powder coat facility team has substantial experience and knowledge to provide customers with the paint finishing they need. Novation’ s experience includes shooting both water and solvent-based material onto metal, plastic and composite substrates. They also offer a five-stage dip process cleaning that is highly effective on parts that spray wash lines struggle to clean. For more than fifteen years, Novation’ s powder coat facility has offered both small and high production runs and has become very efficient at completing high quality work quickly for customers.
Novation has always emphasized quality assurance and has both a NADCAP certified chemical lab and environmental testing lab with humidity and salt spray testing capabilities. This allows for in-house solution testing and process compliance verification. In their non-destructive testing facility, Novation currently performs florescent penetrant inspection on non-ferrous substrates and is looking to expand their capabilities to include hard metals, as demand dictates. They currently hold several aerospace OEM certifications and NADCAP certification for this process. Approved pre-cleaning steps before NDT processing are also supported.
With these capabilities, Novation completes a wide variety of finishing projects for aerospace manufacturers. Each customer brings interesting work and new challenges that Novation’ s team is eager to solve.
Le Friec looks at the success he and his team have had so far, and he’ s optimistic about the direction of Novation and the aerospace industry, too. It’ s made him proud of the entire Novation team and the dedication they bring to their work.
Manufacturing for Tomorrow
With globalization putting pressure on many American aerospace manufacturers, it would be easy for some companies to hold a pessimistic outlook. Instead, Le Friec is optimistic about both US manufacturing and Novation’ s future role in the industry.
“ Globalization is definitely putting additional demands on US manufacturers and forcing us all to look internally for improved efficiencies. I do not look at this situation with doom and gloom. We still have the best suppliers in the world right here, if we are provided the environment to compete.”
Novation’ s success so far suggests that Le Friec is still committed to competing— and thriving— in that environment.
“ I’ m truly proud of our employees.
Just being here for 27 years is something I’ m very proud of.”
- Fred Le Friec
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