General Magnaplate Completes Plant Consolidation

All operations will now take place at the recently upgraded plant in Arlington, Texas.

Magnaplate celebrates 65 years

NADCAP reaccredits General Magnaplate New Jersey

Magnaplate TNSF™ successfully coated on plastics

Tufram® Basic, Nedox® Basic, Plasmadize® Basic and Nedox PF-F™ introduced

Loss of Sylvia Covino

• General Magnaplate develops the Friction Calculator web app, www.frictioncalculator.com, which provides static and dynamic coefficients of friction (COF) for more than 200 pairings of commonly used materials and engineered coatings.

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• New Tufram® Licensee in South Korea, YKMC Inc

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• Magnaplate BTC™ invented

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• Our long history of involvement in the space program continues with Mars Curiosity Rover mission

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• Creation of Magnaplate Worldwide™

SpaceX and NASA

Magnaplate plays a mission-critical role coating parts for SpaceX’s Dragon capsule and NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover.

NADCAP Accredited

Australian licensee appointed: SEC Plating

A Great Loss – Doc Covino

Dr. Charles P. Covino, Magnaplate’s founder and a coatings industry innovator, sadly passes away at age 82.

Mars Rover Lands

Magnaplate's coatings play a critical role in the Mars Rover’s descent rate limiter.

• CMPT wins New Jersey Research & Design Council Patent of Year Award.
• Nussbaum Bodycote.
• Hank Levin retires from Board Of Directors after 40 years of service.
• General Magnaplate Corp. voted into NJ’s Inventor’s Hall of Fame.
• Doc Covino retires as CEO; Candida Aversenti appointed CEO.

Magnaplate HTR® Invented

Magnaplate HTR increases the release efficiency of molds and dies made of steel, copper, brass, aluminum and other metals exposed to high temperatures.

Goldenedge® Invented

Goldenedge is an ultra-hard, micro-thin coating for use on the cutting edges of blades, knives, slicers and other sharp-edged devices.

Magnaplate TNS® Invented

Magnaplate TNS coatings solve the “sticky substance” problems encountered so often in all segments of the adhesive industry —adhesive formulating, label printing, tape manufacturing, and converting.

Doc inducted into New Jersey Inventors Congress and Hall of Fame.

Plasmadize® Invented

Plasmadize combines the advantages of thermal spraying with the controlled infusion of polymers, dry lubricants or other materials to provide an entirely new composite with improved properties.

Candida Aversenti becomes President.

Magnaplate SNS™ invented.

Magnaplate HMF® & Magnagold® Invented

Magnaplate HMF creates an extremely hard, mirror-smooth, highly reflective micro-finish on the surface of ferrous metal, copper or aluminum alloy components. Magnagold, is an enhanced PVD titanium nitride coating for high strength alloys.

Space Shuttle Makes First Earth Orbit

As NASA entered more advanced phases of its space program, new problems kept cropping up, requiring technological improvements to provide extremely hard, dry-lubricated surfaces to hundreds of aluminum, titanium and steel parts, tools and pieces of equipment.

Swedish licensee appointed: FFV a government owned facility (now Bodycote).

Magnadize® Invented

Increasing the surface hardness and lubricity of magnesium, Magnadize improves the metal’s resistance to corrosion and oxidation, and prevents abrasion and galling.

First Texas facility opens.

First Man Walks on the Moon

Thanks to General Magnaplate, not only was ‘man’ able to walk on the moon, he was able to drill into it too. Canadize treatment on both the inside and outside of the titanium core-sample drill tubes prevented galling and eliminated contamination of the moon rock samples.

Tufram, Inc. opens in Linden, NJ to produce cookware ranked No. 1 in the US two years in a row by Consumer Reports.

Tufram® Invented

Engineers worldwide recognize Tufram as the solution to a host of problems faced by aluminum components on all types of manufacturing, processing and packaging equipment.

Doc Covino breaks ground by publishing his famous ‘QA Manual’ distributed by Industrial Press.

Sylvia Covino (Doc’s wife) joins the family affair.

Acquires Eastern Testing Labs of Long Island, NY.

Magnaplate moves to Bloomfield, NJ plant