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3 Ways to Reduce Turnaround Time
We know how crucial timely turnaround is for you, so here are three things you can do to enable your plating company to get your plated parts back to you as soon as possible: 1. Accurate purchase orders. Inaccurate orders can get held up in the receiving department...
Casting Doubt
Castings can be very challenging to plate. Here are the three most common reasons we see for this: Highly porous substrate Rough substrate surface Impurities in the casting Highly Porous Substrate Substrate porosity can cause our process solution to get trapped within...
Combine Small Orders for BIG Savings!
Our smallest mechanical galvanizing barrel is designed to hold up to 675 pounds of parts; our largest barrel holds up to 2,600 pounds. As you might imagine, mechanically galvanizing only 10 or 20 pounds of metal parts in these barrels can be a major challenge. And in...
Making (and Minimizing) Contact
Rack electroplating is the most popular type of electroplating for the simple reason that the design, delicacy or large size of some parts makes barrel electroplating more difficult. Despite the many benefits of rack electroplating, however, there is one inherent...
Avoid This Trap!
Did you know that the porosity of your part’s substrate can cause our processing solution to get trapped within the part and cause plating issues? Here’s how it can happen.When we process a part, it’s submersed into a heated tank (typically an acid or soap solution),...
Why Thinner Parts Seem to Have Fatter Costs
If you look at your zinc plating bills in terms of the plating expense per pound of parts, you've probably noticed that the cost per pound varies from part to part. Specifically, you might have noticed that thinner, flatter parts are more expensive to coat than...
When Cutting Corners Means Cutting Quality
The thickness of the zinc coating on your parts affects not only the amount of zinc used, but the amount of amperage (i.e., power) and the amount of time used to plate those parts. Since zinc, power and time all cost money, it stands to reason that you'll pay more for...
Don’t Let Slag Be a Drag
When cutting your parts with a plasma torch, oxy-acetylene torch or laser before sending them out to be plated, please make sure there are no parts in close proximity to the parts being cut. If there are, slag from the parts being cut will land on and stick to the...
Don’t Forget the P.O. – That’s an Order!
Many times when we pick up a customer's product, there's no purchase order prepared for our driver. When the product is brought back to our plant, the lack of a P.O. makes it impossible for our Data Entry Perfectionist to enter the parts into our system. This forces...
A Convenient New Way to Confirm Orders
Several of our customers have asked for an easy way to confirm whenever an order has been entered into our system. We thought that was a terrific idea, and so we were happy to turn that request into reality. Any customer who opts to take advantage of this new service...
You Can Do More Than You Might Zinc!
It's important for metal parts manufacturers to understand that, in many cases, it's impossible to prevent corrosion forever. This is especially true for parts that are exposed to extremely harsh environmental conditions. Fortunately, zinc plating can extend the time...
Track Your Products with Plating Central
You might not know this, but you can log onto our website at any time to check on all sorts of things, including: Where your product is in the plating process Your invoices Your account statements To access this, just click on CONTACT US and then PLATING CENTRAL in...
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