Improved method for nickel-free phosphating metal surfaces
AssigneeChemetall GmbH
InventorsOlaf Dahlenburg, Thomas Kolberg, Lisa Seider
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for substantially nickel-free phosphating of a metallic surface, wherein a metallic surface is treated one after the other with the following compositions: i) with an alkaline, aqueous cleaner composition which comprises at least one water-soluble silicate, and ii) with an acidic, aqueous, substantially nickel-free phosphating composition which comprises zinc ions, manganese ions and phosphate ions. The invention also relates to the above cleaner composition itself and also to a metallic surface phosphate-coated by the above method, and to the use of said surface.
Claims20
A method for substantially nickel-free phosphating of a metallic surface, which comprises treating a metallic surface one after the other with the following compositions:
- i) with an alkaline, aqueous cleaner composition which comprises at least one water-soluble silicate, and then
- ii) with an acidic, aqueous, substantially nickel-free phosphating composition which comprises zinc ions, manganese ions and phosphate ions.
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