Automotive Conference Attracts Finishers, OEMs
Topics at Atotech conference included automotive trends, quality certification trend and the future of mobility.

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.

Video: Products on Display at FABTECH 2018
Here’s a small sampling of what visitors to FABTECH 2018 will see on display in the CCAI Finishing Pavilion, including products and services from Atotech, Caplugs, Chemetall, DeFelsko, Fischer Technology and Pneu-Mech Systems Mfg.

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.