Clean enough that the inspection is the hard part.
Machining oil, fingerprints and floor dust have no place on flight hardware. Our cleaning line runs a five-stage aqueous process — ultrasonic degrease, ultrasonic rinse and deionised water finishing — built to the requirements of satellite and space-hardware programmes.
Cleaning is the last operation before packaging. Every stage is controlled: degreaser concentration verified by conductivity, heated baths, high-purity DI water, stainless-only transfer equipment and glove changes at every contamination boundary.
Anodised and plated parts run the same line without ultrasonication, protecting the coating while achieving the same verified cleanliness.
Preliminary rinse
DI water spray removes loose particulate and water-soluble contamination before the baths.
Ultrasonic clean
Parts fully submerged and sonicated in a heated ultrasonic degreaser solution.
Ultrasonic rinse
A heated ultrasonic DI water rinse strips residual degreaser from every cavity.
Final rinse & water break
DI water rinse, then water break inspection — any beading or film fails the part.
Drying
Dried using filtered air
Verified clean. Not assumed clean.
PROCESS QUALIFIED BY NVR AND PARTICLE-COUNT MEASUREMENT TO IEST-STD-CC1246 — NVR LEVEL R1 · PARTICLE LEVEL 300
Where verified cleanliness is called out.
Cleaning comes last.
All machining, marking and inspection happens before the clean — parts go straight from verification to packaging, handled only with clean gloves. Anodised and plated parts are cleaned without ultrasonication to protect the coating.