Apr 20, 2020
In today’s highly competitive business climate, just about every manufacturer is looking for ways to reduce operating costs. Factors such as increased environmental regulations and cheaper overseas labor make it more challenging than ever for manufacturers to turn a...
Feb 20, 2020
A process known as zinc plating is frequently used to protect metals such as iron and steel against corrosion. Rust, being the biggest threat to any metal, has corrosive effects that can be devastating when serving larger applications within the automotive, military,...
Nov 15, 2019
From a manufacturing standpoint, zinc electroplating on zinc die cast parts can be one of the more uniquely difficult processes companies work through. Great Lakes Metal Finishing has developed a one-of-a-kind internal cleaning process with a product fallout below 1%–...
Oct 9, 2019
Proper metal electroplating is important to any manufacturing process the deals with metal products and machinery in the military defense industry. Finishing, or metal plating, generally involves applying a metal coating on a certain application to form a protective...
Aug 26, 2019
Black zinc electroplating provides automotive parts with consistent deep finishes with a high degree of corrosion protection at a lower cost than zinc-nickel plating. The black trivalent zinc passivate is the topcoat applied after the zinc electroplating process is...
