What Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB does

Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB is a Swedish industrial service company specializing in metal surface treatment (ytbehandling), based in Solna, Stockholm County. Founded in 1978 (per the company website), it operates a single-site job-shop applying electrochemical and chemical processes — including zinc, nickel, chrome, copper, tin, silver, and gold plating, anodizing, pickling, electropolishing, phosphating, and chromating — to manufactured metal components for industrial customers. The shop handles corrosion protection, wear resistance, electrical conductivity improvement, decorative finishing, food-safe surfaces, and solderability applications, with trivalent chrome and REACH-friendly chromate alternatives offered alongside legacy hexavalent chromating.

The company is part of a four-entity surface treatment group that also includes Ytcenter (Upplands-Väsby), Huskvarna Elektrolytpolering (Jönköping), and Fintlings Serbien (Novi-Sad), giving the group reach across Sweden and into Southeast Europe and a combined "over 100 years" of industry heritage. The group describes its scale as "thousands of parts per week" across the four sites. Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB itself holds a small headcount (6 employees in the firmographic record), is privately held with no parent or external investor identified, and is certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

The business model is straightforward industrial B2B: customers send parts in for contracted surface treatment services and Fintlings bills per piece/job; pricing is not publicly disclosed but a 2026 price letter was issued, and the company posts operational notices such as summer-shutdown weeks. There are no disclosed named customers, no digital channels, no app or API offering, and no evidence of AI or software-driven differentiation — the value proposition rests entirely on process breadth, regulatory-compliant chemistries, ISO certification, and the multi-site group footprint.

Name

Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB

Legal name

Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB

Website

https://fintlings.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB is a privately held Swedish surface treatment job-shop in Solna applying electrochemical and chemical metal finishing — zinc, nickel, chrome, tin, silver, gold plating, anodizing, and related processes — to components for industrial manufacturers. It is part of a four-entity group spanning Sweden and Serbia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Metal Surface Treatment Services

NAICS

Coating, Engraving, Heat Treating, and Allied Activities (3328)

SIC

Coating, Engraving & Allied Services (3470)

akta.pro primary industry

Surface Preparation & Abrasive Blasting (Sand/Grit/Shot/Waterjet) (IMAIAKAC)

Keywords

• Metal surface treatment
• Electroplating services
• Corrosion protection
• Metal finishing
• Anodizing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Solna

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB is a Swedish contract metal surface treatment company that performs electrochemical and chemical finishing of metal components on behalf of industrial customers. Its services span corrosion protection (zinc plating, tin plating, anodizing), decorative and functional plating (nickel, chrome, copper, silver, gold), and pre-treatment and conversion coatings (pickling, phosphating, chromating, electropolishing). The work is carried out at its Solna facility and across sister companies in the group, serving manufacturers that need wear resistance, electrical conductivity, solderability, decorative finishes, or food-safe metal surfaces.

Product overview

Fintlings Ytbehandlingsfabrik AB is a Swedish surface treatment company offering a comprehensive portfolio of electrochemical and chemical metal treatment services. The company operates as a group with over 100 years of combined industry experience across four facilities in Sweden and Serbia. Their core offerings include various metal plating processes (zinc, nickel, chrome, copper, tin, silver, gold), anodizing for aluminum, pickling, electropolishing, phosphating, and chromating. The company is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified, serving industrial customers requiring corrosion protection, wear resistance, electrical conductivity, and decorative finishes on metal components.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Korrosion (Corrosion Protection) Corrosion protection services that shield metal surfaces from unwanted attacks, preventing discoloration and property changes such as strength reduction. Service for industrial customers with corrosion problems on metal components.
• Anodisering (Anodizing) Electrochemical surface treatment for aluminum and aluminum alloys that creates a protective oxide layer, providing hardness, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and electrical insulation. The oxide layer can be dyed in natural and black colors.
• Betning (Pickling) Treatment of metal in acid or acid mixtures, typically used as pre-treatment before metal coating to remove oxides and slag from rolling, heat treatment, and welding with minimal attack on the base metal.
• Elpolering (Electropolishing) Electrolytic polishing to achieve highly reflective decorative surfaces while substantially enhancing corrosion protection, often used for stainless steel parts in marine environments and harsh industrial atmospheres.
• Fosfatering (Phosphating) Chemical conversion treatment for steel, galvanized steel, zinc, and aluminum that forms an insoluble metal phosphate layer, used primarily as a base for painting or oiling to improve corrosion protection.
• Förkoppring (Copper Plating) Copper plating performed in alkaline cyanide copper bath, used primarily as a preparatory treatment for other coatings such as nickel plating on aluminum, or as decarburization protection on steel parts during hardening.
• Nickel och Krom (Nickel and Chrome Plating) Multiple combinations of nickel and chrome plating, including bright nickel, semi-bright nickel, matte (sulfamate) nickel, and black nickel, using the trivalent chrome process. Suitable for steel, cast iron, copper and its alloys, and to a lesser extent aluminum and its alloys.
• Förtenning (Tin Plating) Tin coating for corrosion protection on steel and copper alloys, offering good solderability and food-safe properties, supplied in bright tin and matte tin variants for applications including food cans, electrical contacts, and parts intended for soldering or winding.
• Kemisk förnickling (Electroless Nickel Plating) Chemical nickel plating without electrical current, producing extremely uniform coatings with consistent layer thickness even on sharp edges and narrow gaps. Hardness up to 1100 HV after heat treatment, available in mid- and high-phosphorus variants with optional PTFE co-deposition.
• Försilvring och förgyllning (Silver and Gold Plating) Precious metal coatings using silver and gold for improved electrical conductivity, corrosion resistance, and decorative applications, used on electrical contacts and components and as low-friction coatings for bearings.
• Kromatering (Chromating) Chemical treatment for aluminum, magnesium, and zinc using chromate solutions to create thin non-metallic chromate layers, including yellow chromating and the eco-friendly Surtech 650 and E-clps 4600 alternatives.
• Förzinkning (Zinc Plating) Electrogalvanizing method providing cathodic (sacrificial) protection for steel parts, can be dyed blue, yellow, or black, and serves as a base for painting. Available in both rack (hänga) and barrel (trumma) processing.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• YtcentercoreOthersPart of the same surface treatment group. Located in Upplands-Väsby, Sweden. One of four companies in the Fintlings group.
• Huskvarna ElektrolytpoleringcoreOthersPart of the same surface treatment group. Located in Jönköping, Sweden. One of four companies in the Fintlings group.
• Fintlings SerbiencoreOthersPart of the same surface treatment group. Located in Novi-Sad, Serbia. One of four companies in the Fintlings group providing geographic reach beyond Sweden.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bodycote plc: The world's largest listed metal surface treatment services group with hundreds of facilities globally. Comparable to Fintlings because both offer outsourced metal finishing services (heat treatment, plating, surface treatment) to industrial customers, but Bodycote operates at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.
• Aalberts Surface Technologies: European-headquartered surface treatment division of Aalberts N.V., providing plating, coating, and heat treatment services to industrial customers. Directly comparable business model to Fintlings' plating and finishing services, but at multi-site continental scale.
• IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V. European PVD/coating equipment and services provider for industrial applications. Comparable as an incumbent in industrial surface coating, though focused on PVD equipment and large-scale contracts versus Fintlings' wet chemistry job-shop model.

Direct peers

• Ytskyddsgruppen AB: Swedish-based surface treatment group providing corrosion protection and metal finishing services. Closely comparable to Fintlings as a Nordic multi-site job-shop competitor serving industrial customers with similar plating and coating processes.
• Holmbergs Industri AB: Nordic industrial surface treatment specialist offering zinc, nickel, and decorative plating services. Highly comparable to Fintlings in geography (Sweden/Nordics), service mix, and customer base of industrial manufacturers.

Others

• Henkel AG & Co. KGaA: Global chemicals group with industrial surface treatment solutions including metal pre-treatment and coating chemistry. Comparable as a supplier and competitor in adjacent surface treatment chemistry, though not a direct job-shop service provider.
• Atotech (MKS Instruments): Global supplier of chemistry, equipment, and software for surface finishing and electronics. Comparable as the upstream chemistry and process supplier ecosystem that Fintlings and its peers buy from, not a direct service competitor.

Regional players

• NGL Cleaning Technology AB: Nordic industrial cleaning and surface preparation provider serving similar industrial B2B customers in Scandinavia. Comparable in customer base and Nordic geography, with overlapping surface preparation activities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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