Plating

The plating shop owner couldn’t believe his eyes. There it was written in black and white in the lab report.

The metal finishing industry continually diversifies, changes and introduces new processes. It also improves standard methods while streamlining others.

The direct electrodeposition of coatings onto Al and its alloys is difficult due to the formation of a strongly adherent passivating oxide film.

Today industrial electroplating is mainly carried out using direct current even if the use of modulated currents could offer greats opportunities.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule that would lower reporting level thresholds on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

The California Air Resources Board has set a January 27 public hearing on its plan to ban decorative and functional hexavalent chromium plating and anodizing operations in the state.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking for feedback on a proposed questionnaire it will be sending to electroplaters to collect data for the agency’s revision of the metal finishing and electroplating guidelines to address discharges of PFAS from chrome finishing wastewater.

A lot goes into running a finishing operation, and it certainly takes a lot out of the people running them, too.

Hexavalent hard chrome is under scrutiny because of environmental and worker safety concerns, which are real if hex chrome is improperly used.

Michigan’s Master Finish is hoping a new granular activated carbon filtration system will keep it in compliance with PFAS rules on wastewater discharge.

The incident of nickel corrosion in electroless nickel, electroless palladium, and immersion gold (ENEPIG) multilayers was brought to light after it was observed during the analysis of gold wire bond lifts.

Ian MacMoy is President and Chief Technology Officer for Intermetallic Group and chairman of the American Petroleum Institute’s 20P Coating and Plating Group.

Jaime Maliszewski is gifting himself an expensive Christmas present this year: a $600,000 renovated plating line.

The hard chrome industry is tired of hearing about how hexavalent chrome is so dangerous that its industrial use must be curtailed or eliminated altogether.

Florida Finishers Corp. will hold its 11th Annual Mid-Winter Conference and Exposition January 26-27 at the St Petersburg Marriott Clearwater.

Two cousins who owned the former Sebring Industrial Plating plant in Youngstown were sentenced by an Ohio court to probation and fined for violating state and federal solid waste rules.

If a part is made in the U.S. and headed to Mexico to be assembled, then Sav-On Plating seeks to be a stop on the way.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published the Final Fifth Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List, which will serve as the basis for EPA’s regulatory considerations over the next five-year cycle under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Silver has long been the metal of choice in finishing electronic components, and the surge of electric vehicles has put silver at the forefront of the automotive industry.

Dan Rose admits he is passionate about running his company, Elite Metal Finishing, in Oceanside, California.