Silver and white bronze
Silver and white bronze have the lowest practical resistivity and they are therefore able to minimize interface contact resistances, which is ideal for low intermodulation.

But silver and white bronze are sensitive to corrosion.


Stainless steel, nickel and ferrites
Magnetic and para-magnetic materials as stainless steel, nickel and ferrites, only compound non-linearity and give poor interface contact resistance, which gives low intermodulation.

During experimentation a degradation in performance of 20 dB was discovered, when nickel plate was used in stead of silver.


Nitin-6
Nitin-6 plating has excellent  protection in all environments against corrosion and much better corrosion resistance than silver and white bronze.The Nitin-6 plating has proved to be extremely stable and resistant over many years of operation in hard climatic environments. Our salt spray tests have shown no impact on the Nitin-6 plating or the function of the connector. Nitin-6 is non-magnetic and resistant to most chemicals.

The Nitin-6 plating has a stainless steel look, a low friction surface and will retain lubricant well.

Nitin-6 is non-toxic and does not cause allergic reactions to nickel allergic persons.

 

The Plating process
Cabelcon's customers expect high and long lasting quality, and that is why Cabelcon has developed a unique Nitin-6 plating process, where a lot of different items can be plated in contiguous operations. The system controls automatically the right time and operation procedure for the each specific lot. 

Apart from Nitin-6 Cabelcon is also manufacturing silver plated connectors, with silver- or gold plated inner conductors, as well as other NITIN/silver/gold combinations, depending on applications and requirements.

 

Environmental Care

Unfortunately it is not possible to do any metallic plating without the use of chemicals. In order to ensure minimum impact on the environment in the washing process, we use only water and washing chemicals - not harmful to the environment.

The water used for the plating- and washing process is reused several times in different washing levels. After extensive use, the discharge water is being cleaned in our advanced "wastewater cleaning system". The final discharge water complies with the government environmental regulations. The remaining contents of metal and chemicals drawn from the discharge water and used chemicals, go for destruction.