Electroplating Service Company

Electroplating service company is required to do some development in fulfill and meet every requirement of their customer request, must doing continuous training for their customer in order can follow the development of their service and can develop and sometimes need to modify of their process. Continuous improvement can be started by their researcher that usually try on small laboratory for experiment of their new kind of plating process operations. Continuous research and development may need to do in order to meet the requirement of their customers. For old company that don’t doing improvement on their process can be left by their customers because can’t fulfill their requirement that always increase. New innovation and new technology should develop in order can catch all customer requirement and win on the competition of their service. Electroplating service company is already born everyday and high competition will happened to find the winner of this competition, service company that don’t follow the new higher qualification of the product result will be the looser on this competition and finally died.

Service company also required to fulfill the environment regulation, and have some International Standard for their process like ISO and other standard like environment standard like Eko Label that currently very important to build the customer trust and company image for their green process, that usually difficult for electroplating industry.

Electroplating Service company may serve for several kind of plating for example as follows:

• Hard Chrome Plating Service
• Black Chrome Plating
• Bright Chrome Plating
• Nickel Plating
• Gold Plating
• Silver Plating
• Copper Plating

Some Electroplating Company in the World as follows:

1. ULISION ELECTROPLATING SDN BHD – Malaysia
2. Pan Malaysia Electro Plating Sdn. Bhd. – Malaysia
3. American Plating Co. – United States
4. IMFCO - Metal Plating Services, Houston. – United States
5. American Electroplating Company – United States
6. LumiOne – Indonesia
7. PT.Multi Usage Indonesia – Indonesia
8. BRIGHT ELECTROPLATORS – India
9. Venus Chemicals – India
10.  Ankur Elecrtoplating Industries – India
11.  Yongmingxin （Jiu） Plating Equipment Business and Repair - China

Chrome Plating Process

Chrome plating is a process to cover the surface of metal using other metal which have better characteristic such as stand to corrode. Plating process to the steel is by dissolving of metal substance like chromium metal in certain chemicals or solution to make chromium III ion in the solution. This positive ion the is charged by DC source make the positive ion is move to negative pole and plated there. Negative pole is a metal that will plated by this chrome metal which have better resistance to corrode and better performance like hard chrome or bright chrome.

Each solution to make hard chrome is different with solution to make bright chrome. Other type of chrome plating is black chrome that use solution of oxalic acid mixed with sulfuric acid on the bath chrome solution. The natural plated of chrome plating is white rather gray color of chrome plated and this color will change depend on the electric current force or Ampere and the time of plating. More longer time to plate the color more gray and even change to black color but can’t bright black color. To make the plating color of chrome plating become bright it need additive chemical called as brightener agent.

The step by step of chrome plating is as follows:

Article Contents:

The Principle of electroplating

Decorative of hard chrome plating

Thickness Control of Plating Deposit

Preparation of chromic acid

Bright Chrome Plating

Black Chrome Plating

Temperature Control

Chrome Plating Result

Dull White, Black, Bright Black, White and Gold Color

Example of Hard Chrome Plating

See other articles: Fluid Corrosion on Steel

Fluid Corrosion on Steel

Corrosion problem on the system always being intense watch in selection of materials of construction for a particular fluid system, it is important first to take into consideration the characteristics of the system, giving special attention to all factors that may influence to corrosion. Since these factors would be peculiar to a particular system, it is impractical to attempt to offer a set of hard and fast rules that would cover all situations.

The materials should be set up in order can suitable for the system. The system is to be fabricated are the second important consideration; therefore, knowledge of the characteristics and general behavior of materials when exposed to certain environments is essential. To overcome this problem people always try to minimize the corrosion by some action like by electroplating such as chrome coating or by anodizing material, this depend on the characteristic of the system.

The corrosion information data for a particular set of fluid and environment conditions, a reasonable good selection would be possible from literature based on resistance of materials to a very similar environment. These data, should be used with some reservations. Good practice calls for applying such data for preliminary screening. Materials selected thereby would require further study in the fluid system under consideration.

Related to Discussion:

• Chrome coating for decorative steel
• Chromium plating bath
• Steel knowledge
• Chrome Plating Process

Chrome coating for Decorative Steel

To make coating for decorative purpose, base metal that will coated with chrome plating usually coated first with nickel. After coated with nickel this base metal ready either coated with copper or chromic acid. The combination of two kind of metal will make this base metal more resistance to corrode and the thickness of coated metal thicker. For decorative coating thickness will vary from a few hundredths of mil to 1 mil. The mirror finish will only be as good as the finish, put on the surface before put on chrome.

For finishing with chrome plating, chrome must be micro finished will give coefficient of friction lower than any other metal when use against steel, iron, brass, bronze, Babbitt or aluminum alloys. To make a double coated don’t use chrome coated with chrome, because chrome is much harder than casehardened steel. Chrome resist to mostly all organic and inorganic compounds and acids, except hydrochloric acid. In sulfuric acid chrome can’t stand for longer use because this acid also very corrosive.

See: Electropolishing of Anodizing

Electropolishing in Anodizing

Electropolishing is a process treatment of aluminum using electric current in a chemical solution. Chemicals solution use can be different of each type of purpose, for more detail can see on Electropolishing of Aluminum. Electropolishing is make the surface of aluminum is open, the pore of oxide film that already stay on the surface of aluminum oxide will remove and open. Oxide film surface can be formed in transportation or keeping in the store or just exposed to air. So the purpose of electropolishing is opening the oxide film surface on the aluminum surface.

In detail of electropolishing can see on the list of  this process applied. Basically use electric current to open the surface of oxide film on aluminum surface. Here are the list detail process of electropolishing:

• The Scheme of Electropolishing
• Electropolishing Definition
• Electropolishing Bath
• Article Supported

Steel Knowledge

Everybody sometime shopping a steel in material store or in Supermarket, for many purpose. It could be for appliance needed for your home, or buy in material because you need for steel construction. Sometime we just choose this is better and those are bad, without any explanation from the store why this is good or this better. We just believe in to the store keeper that often don't have any knowledge of steel quality.

You buy a knife because it look sharp and bright without any explanation how long it can be sharp, and how often we use and still sharp. Sometime the knife only sharp for a moment, after use several times the knife is not sharp anymore even we try to sharpen the knife but it can't be sharpen like the new one. The best quality of steel for knife it must be made from hard steel that on science field say high carbon steel. To make a knife we need carbon sheet steel to form a knife. Home industry maker usually use scrap steel to make it, of course it should be from high carbon steel.

Steel for house building is different type, depend on the need it can be steel for structure or for decorative purpose. For decorative purpose, generally can use stainless steel. Stainless steel have many grade type, each grade type have different price. For Stainless steel 316 is expensive compare to stainless steel 314. But all type of stainless steel can be formed into a bright steel after special finishing treatment.

Chemicals for Coating

Chemicals for coating are vary depend on the type of plating process, for chrome electroplating use chromic acid and sulfuric acid on the solution use, but for other type of electroplating must use other chemical solution the bath. Find here is the service company of chemical solution for Bright Chrome plating.

The process of each type of coating must use different chemical solution in order to get best result. For example for bright chrome plating there are certain chemical use and brightener chemicals should be use in order get bright chrome product, find here of bright chrome service company..