Plating

When you visit Allied Finishing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, you won’t find the owners of the company sitting in a corner office shuffling papers. Chances are you’ll need to venture to the shop floor to find either Brad Hirdes, Marc Hop, C.J. Nachtegall, or Jerry VanderSloot.

Monique Guyse is a Senior Sales Perfectionist at Plateco, a third-generation shop based in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. She is responsible for sales, customer care and quality control. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Monique started her Plateco career in the Accounts Receivable area, then moved into sales and operations, serving as sales engineer, technical sales engineer, and quality systems manager before being promoted to her current position.

On Monday, September 28, Fox 6 visited Reliable Plating Works, Inc.’s Elite Finishing LLC Division to do a story on electroplating and their new Custom Chrome department.

Greg Wood is owner and chief executive officer of Alpha Metal Finishing in Dexter, MI. A Michigan State University grad with a degree in human resources. He handles the shops operations, sales and marketing, and technology, and has a passion for leadership and developing a healthy organization.

Control Electropolishing in Brooklyn, New York, has been in business for over 60 years, and one thing has remained fairly consistent in that time: a commitment to excellence in how they electropolish parts, and the chemical solutions that they use to get there.

The National Association for Surface Finishing is holding a Web-Based Chromium Plating for Engineering Applications Course in November.

When it comes to aerospace parts, less is often more, especially considering the weight of the part. That is one reason Signature Plating in Cibolo, Texas, decided to launch a plating-on-plastic (POP) line several years ago to assist in helping private planes reduce weight and gain fuel efficiencies.

This article was originally published in April 2011. A lot has changed in our industry over the past decade, but this article is still referenced quite often and that always makes us smile.

Eric Turner is Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Quality Assurance at Houston Plating & Coating. While completing his degree at the University of Houston, he began working part-time at HPC in 2001 as a forklift operator.

MacDermid Enthone proudly presented Electro Chemical Finishing Co. (ECF) with their DecoKlad license in September.

The NASF Palmetto Southeast Chapter’s 12th Annual Myrtle Beach Technical Conference: is October 7-9 at the Myrtle Beach, SC Hampton Inn & Suites Oceanfront Hotel.

Bobbi Burns is general manager Global Plating in Fremont, California, where she handles just about everything for the operation, from receivables to HR, quality, purchasing, regulatory compliance, and EHS.

Chrome plating, which has been around almost a century, is a technique of electroplating either a thin layer deposit (< 0.000015 inches) for decorative applications or thick layer deposit (>0.001 inches) for functional applications of chromium metal onto objects.

Years ago, Tamea Franco was a typical entrepreneur in Roanoke, Virginia, she spent a lot of time in her basement with numerous buckets of chemicals and sheets of aluminum performing anodizing experiments.

Greg Terrell, Pretreatment Product Manager at Coventya, Inc., had someone contact him recently with this question: We are plating 4130, 9300 and a couple other alloys through cyanide cad and are experiencing random pitting that we cannot trace to current density.  The pits do not go to substrate, so we have ruled out the pretreatment. Can you visit and offer a fresh set of eyes?

ResinTech Inc. announced that is has officially moved into its new global headquarters in Camden, New Jersey. The $138.8M development project includes 353,000 square feet of new construction on a twenty-seven acre campus just two miles from Center City Philadelphia.

William Saas is a legend in the finishing community, and this year was given the NASF Presidential Award, which focuses on extraordinary service by an NASF member who is actively participating on the national level, who goes above and beyond the capacity of most.

EFCO Finishing in Menomonee Falls, WI is partnering with GPS Education Partners to build its industry talent pools and future workforces using the unique youth apprenticeship program designed by GPSEd. 

Michael Kelly is president at Coventya, a global supplier of specialty chemicals for electroplating and surface finishing. He started his finishing career at Taskem, and joined Coventya when Taskem and Sirius Technology merged to form the new company.

AOTCO Metal Finishing has acquired Plating for Electronics, a leading provider of specialty anodizing, electroplating, and laser marking services based in Waltham, MA.