Plating

A group of electroplaters in Connecticut are pioneering a new program to help recruit and train workers for their metal finishing facilities.

Steve Stone is the General Manager at Saporito Finishing in Chicago, where he has worked for almost 24 years.

Since aluminum is highly electropositive, plating onto its surface cannot be achieved.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added seven per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list of chemicals covered by the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

Gold and Silver are the most frequently electrodeposited of all the precious metals, and for the widest variety of applications.

A shop manager once asked me about an issue with rack-zinc plates for a customer per ASTM B633 Type lll Class FeZn8.

The Surface Finishers Educational Association is hosting its monthly meeting on January 11, featuring a talk on removing PFAS from finishing operations.

The Florida Finishers Corp. annual Mid-Winter Conference and Expo is January 25-26 in Tampa.

The sentiment amongst electroplaters, anodizers, powder coaters, and other finishers for 2024 is clear: hold tight for a bumpy ride.

After celebrating Thanksgiving with our families, we now approach the end of a challenging year.

Tony Bouie knows a few things about the importance of teamwork and how a dedicated group can pretty much accomplish anything it wants.

Let’s say you plate parts in a Watts bright nickel bath for the automotive industry, but it seems to be inundated with organic and metallic contaminants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with FormFactor that resolves claims of violations of the Clean Air Act at the company’s nickel-plating facility in Livermore, Calif.

We talked with Mariola Brandes, Global Director of Decorative Systems for WRC and PET at MacDermid Enthone Industrial Solutions, to discuss Tristar Shield, a non-Cr(VI) electrolytic process that optimizes decorative chromium deposits by providing higher neutral salt spray resistance as well as improved resistance to humidity.

One might say that the pace of electrification in the automobile industry has gone into overdrive in the last year, and you would be right.

When a plating shop lost its foreman, he apparently kept most of the important information on their plating solutions to himself.

How important is it to measure the conductivity of a hard chrome plating bath?

We talked with John Antonacci of Gannon & Scott as he provided a refining tutorial to let shops know how they might find additional sources of reclaim they may be missing.

I want to share what I feel is the single most important growth strategy for the finishing and coating industry that you can execute for 2024 and beyond.

Production Plating of Mukilteo, Washington, was one of three Pacific Northwest companies recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with the 2023 Regional Pollution Prevention Recognition Awards.