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Electroless Nickel Plating

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Do Your Parts Lack Longevity and Overall Performance?

While electroplating is very popular for its low cost, many customers realize later on that nickel and chrome electroplating or the use of stainless steel does not provide the intended outcome of total life cost reduction that was the original goal.

Plating is usually the only barrier between your parts and the atmospheric working conditions. Often, there is no plating applied to an end product, so very early in the life of the part, corrosion and wear deteriorates functionality and ultimately the total unit which it was assembled into. You don’t have to settle with the alternate of using expensive metal alloys such as stainless steel in the future or a lesser quality electroplated finish to keep your parts from failure.

By applying electroless nickel plating, you'll get peace of mind knowing that your parts will last indefinitely in accordance to a proper engineering specification. You won’t have to worry any more about the rising cost of exotic metals and the burdening detriment of electroplating that creates out-of-tolerance parts and lack of mechanical and environmental protection. The risk of corrosion and wear will be abated.

Many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) come to Sharretts Plating Co., Inc. (SPC) for their electroless nickel plating needs. OEMs want to make end products with an advantage over the competition. Other electroless nickel customers are job shops that want to improve their machined components value. SPC has electroless nickel plating solutions for products of varying degrees of use ranging from simple corrosion protection to others in need of better wear resistance created by occluding and infusing materials like ceramics into the coating and also low friction composites such as fluorinated carbons to create a dry self lubricating coating.

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