Editorial, News, and Products
Episode 28: Opportunities for Finishers in Today’s Ever-changing Automotive Landscape
Darrick Gula, North American regional OEM manager, and Brandon Lloyd, global product manager for paint support technology with MKS discuss challenges and opportunities for finishers in today’s ever-changing automotive landscape.
MKS Instruments Acquires Atotech
The acquistion positions MKS to advance electronic device miniaturization and complexity, as well as extend product offerings for industrial applications.
Nickel Electroplating
Applications, plating solutions, brighteners, good operating practices and troubleshooting.
Atotech Partners With Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories will use Atotech’s Uniplate equipment technology in its new 162,000-square-foot facility that will serve as home for its printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing operation.
Innovation in Electroless Nickel
Experimentation defines electroless nickel technology company that prides itself on trying new things and testing new products.
An Interview with Caleb Morrison, Atotech
Caleb Morrison, ConAg Regional Sector Leader for Atotech, discusses platings and coatings in the construction and agricultural markets.
Hybrid Systems Meet Demanding Requirements
Visit Atotech at SUR/FIN 2021 to learn how the company can help you find a solution suited to your needs in diverse applications.
Raising the Bar on Appearance
New system provides improved corrosion protection, paint adhesion and consistent quality at competitive cost.
Atotech To Showcase Innovative Paint Pretreatment, Paint Removal Products
Atotech To Showcase Innovative Paint Pretreatment, Paint Removal Products
Advances in Near Neutral pH Descaling
Atotech’s UniPrep AC products offer versatile alternatives to conventional chemical and mechanical descaling methods.
Atotech's DynaSmart Plating Line Enhances Efficiency
Atotech’s DynaSmart includes a new automation system that allows the simultaneous movement of several product carriers through different plating tanks.
Atotech's Hybrid Approach Combines Organic and Plating Finishes
Atotech has more than 100 hybrid systems for applications such as painting over chrome for decorative trim and painting over zinc alloy plating for brake calipers.
Controlling Quality of Zinc Flake Coatings on Steel Fasteners
Scott McEuen, North American business development manager of zinc flake coatings at Atotech, explains how the quality of zinc flake coatings depends on good adhesion and bonding to the substrate of the fasteners.
Atotech Two-coat System Meets French OEM Fastener System Standards
Zintek 200 SL F features high corrosion protection, controlled friction properties and a reduced number of coating layers.
Atotech introduces new passivate for electroplating market
Atotech’s Tridur ZnNi H5.2-plated parts can be combined with aluminum alloys and used in the automotive industry to minimize contact corrosion.
Using Alternatives in Pretreatment Baths for Degreasing
Effective cleaning at low, even ambient temperatures, is possible, says Atotech’s Brandon Lloyd, and creates a safer work environment and reduces energy demands.
Atotech Offers Pretreatment, Paint Removal for Ecoat
Chemistries are designed for a variety of applications.
Atotech Announces Staff Updates
Specialty chemicals and equipment company has management changes in sales and marketing.
Atotech's Techseal Brilliant Silver Maximizes Performance
Topcoat provides appearance of zinc plating with the benefits of zinc flake coatings.
Atotech Pretreatments Designed for Metal Substrates
Products available in variety of process options.
Plating-On-Plastic Expands Bolta's Global Reach
Bolta’s $48 million Alabama plant specializes in injection molding, plating-on-plastic and assembly.
Atotech BluCr Designed for Safety
BluCr is an industrial trivalent chromium hard-chrome plating process designed as a safe alternative to hexavalent hard chrome plating.
Cardinal Plating Launches First Functional Trivalent Chrome Line
Illinois Shop Utilizes New Chemistry for Tri-Chrome Application
Inline Removal of Paint from Racks and Fixtures
Atotech’s Master Remover 7000 makes inline removal of paint from racks and fixtures a fast and efficient possibility.
Options for Removing Paint from Part Racks
Traditionally, paint removal is achieved by either mechanical, thermal or chemical methods, and often it is contracted out.There are some key disadvantages to outsourcing your paint-removal requirements, however, explains Atotech’s Sylvain Masson.
Process Removes Paint from Hooks, Racks, Part Rejects
Atotech’s Master Remover 7000 is said to be a highly efficient and sustainable paint-removal process.
Zincate for Aluminum Alloys Extends EN Bath Life
Atotech’s Alumseal 611 zincate process is designed to produce very thin zinc coatings that reduce the amount of zinc contamination in the electroless nickel bath and eliminate the need for an EN strike bath.
Thick-Film Passivate Protects Both Zinc and Zinc-Nickel
Atotech’s EcoTri One is a fluoride-free, iridescent, thick-film passivate that provides improved corrosion protection for both zinc and zinc-nickel, requiring only one passivate tank in the plating line for parts plated with both elements.
Stress in Electroless Nickel Coatings
Many factors can impact internal stress, but tests show bath age and deposition rate are the biggest influencers.
Controlling the Quality of Trivalent Chromium Passivates
Atotech’s Andrew Pfeifer presents four options for controlling contaminates in passivate baths.
Trivalent Hard-Chrome Process Eliminates Hex-Chrome Risks
Atotech’s BluCr is a trivalent hard-chrome plating process, offering the wear resistance and corrosion protection of hard-chrome without the hazards and risks of hexavalent chromium.
Atotech Hires Business Manager, CPT
Andrew Pfeifer will be responsible for the company’s plating (zinc and zinc-nickel), zinc flake and surface pretreatment product lines.
Processes Address Ecoat Paint Removal and Pretreatment
At Ecoat18, Atotech will highlight Master Remover 2000S and UniPrep ACD 105, two products designed to solve some of the most difficult obstacles faced by ecoat applicators.
Ecoat Express Revolutionizes GE Locomotives
GE Transportation adds an electrocoat system to ease manufacturing bottlenecks with the help of savvy suppliers who know how to get the project done.
Direct Metallization for Plating on Plastics
A new combination of copper immersion and autocatalytic copper-(I)-oxide deposition enables lower palladium concentrations in the activator bath, though the amount of copper deposited on the plastic surface can be up to ten times higher compared to its predecessor processes.
Atotech USA Surpasses 3 Million Safe Work Hours
The Rock Hill, South Carolina-based company says it is continually looking for ways to improve the safety culture of our workplace.
One-Layer Zinc Flake Base Coat for Fastener Protection
Atotech’s silver inorganic zinc flake base coat eliminates the need for a second coat.
Atotech Acquires Pegastech Plating on Plastics Technology
Pegastech has developed a technology for plating on plastics that does not use hexavalent chromium or palladium compounds for the pretreatment of polymers prior to electroplating.
Top Surface Finishing Innovations of 2016
We look back at the industry’s top new products and services for the past year.
Atotech Sold to The Carlyle Group for $3.2 billion
Carlyle, which also owns the Axalta Coating Systems brand, is a global alternative asset manager positioned in Asia, Europe and the United States through its significant range of investments.
Plating Q&A: Copper Buffing Prior to Nickel-Chrome Plating
What are some options to reduce plating time and increase my throughput?
Bright Future for Plating LED Lights
LEDs are widely used in the electronics and automotive industries, together with household and road lighting applications. Silver plating of the LED substrate can be carried out via conventional rack or reel-to-reel plating procedures.
Cadillac Treatment From Michigan Zinc Plater
Cadillac Plating runs its zinc lines 24 hours a day, and doesn’t lock its doors even when customer parts are still waiting to be plated
Cadillac Treatment From Michigan Plater
Michigan zinc plater works round the clock for customers.
Funky Medina Plating and Powder Shop
Owners Shawn Ritchie and Tait Krejci take an unorthodox approach to success.
Toxic Heavy Metal Free Stabilized Electroless Nickel Processes
This paper will introduce an advanced alternative to Pb and Cd-free electroless nickel processes, which is completely free of toxic heavy metal (THM) stabilizers. The process and deposit characteristics will be discussed and compared to the traditionally Pb stabilized electroless nickel.
Greener Hard Chromium Plating
By improving tribological properties as well as corrosion resistance, hard chromium plating can lower energy consumption of moving parts and machinery, reduce the need to replace parts frequently, leading to reduced waste and improved efficiency.
Chrome Trim Gives the Jetta Some Pop
One of the world’s largest plating-on-plastics lines comes to Mexico
Shelf Life
At Thorco Industries—a supplier of point-of-purchase shelves and shelving fixtures—a new pretreatment system is helping to maximize productivity…
Gearing Up for Automotive Finishing
Things were changing in the Southeast United States. New industries were moving in, namely, automotive. Roy Metal Finishing saw this and geared up its production lines to meet the requirements of its newest customers...
Shining Up Bright Nickel Plating Baths
The chemistry in a bright-nickel-plating bath is not inexpensive. Waste treatment of nickel-plating wastes can be expensive. Meridian found a solution that not only lowered costs, but improved efficiency...
Mechanical Plating
Mechanical plating is an alternative coating system for the impact deposition of zinc and other ductile metals. This article reviews the application technique and performance benefits of this alternative technology to electrodeposition and hot dip galvanizing...
Hardware for Plating Hand-Tools
Danaher Tool Group gets a grip on-nickel chromium plating...