Military Applications

When companies talk about challenging applications for products they inevitably refer to Department of Defense and NASA application requirements. And why shouldn't they? There are few commercial applications that match the demands and performance requirements of these entities. Vehicles, systems, devices of every sort placed in the harshest of environments, and in many cases, where others are intent on destroying them. Metalphoto of Cincinnati has been working directly with the government, as well as numerous prime contractors to the government supplying nameplates, instrument panels, labels and more for many years - we understand what these groups need.

A seemingly small detail of the design of these items is that of the label or data plate. Yet without this detail, identification of items and instructions for their use and maintenance would be difficult.

So the requirement for DoD labels and nameplates is that they must remain legible in the same harsh environments as the equipment itself.

MPC is a leading convertor of Metalphoto®. Metalphoto has been used to mark every U.S. Navy vessel built since the 1960's, thousands of components for Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Bell, Sikorsky, and McDonnell Douglas military aircraft, Osh Kosh Trucks, General Dynamics tanks, AM General Humvees, and millions of additional items from weapons to rafts. In addition every Boeing Commercial aircraft is now marked with Metalphoto. Additionally, Metalphoto is on the International Space Station.

So when it comes to standing up to weather, wind, fuels, sand, paint, sunlight, temperature extremes, salt spray and abrasion – for 20 year life expectancy... Metalphoto is the choice.

Metalphoto is specified as follows:

For a full list of Metalphoto specification and for more information please visit the official Metalphoto page.