Plating Services

Utilize GY Machining’s finishing service to electroplate your unique parts.

GY Machining offers the following textures and colors:

  • Gloss, Matte, Texture and Metallic.
  • Silver, Red, Purple, Pink, Green, Blue, Brown, Gold, etc.
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plating process

What is Plating?

Plating is the process of applying a thin layer of metal to a surface. Plating is a process by which a metal is coated with a thin layer of another metal. This can be done for a variety of purposes, including to protect the surface from corrosion, to give it a unique appearance, or to harden the surface. 

Plating is often used in the manufacturing of jewelry, coins, and other metal objects.

So, plating is used to:

  • Harden objects
  • Decorate objects
  • Inhibit corrosion
  • Improve solderability/weatherability
  • Reduce friction
  • Improve paint adhesion
  • Alter conductivity
  • Improve IR reflectivity
  • Provide radiation shielding

Plating Colors Options

Plating colors mainly include:

  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Nickel
  • Copper
  • Brass
  • Chrome 
  • Black Nickle
  • Misty Gold
  • Misty Nickle
  • Misty Nickle
  • Misty Copper
  • Misty Brass
  • Misty Black Nickle
  • Misty Chrome
  • Antique Gold
  • Antique Silver
  • Antique Nickle
  • Antique Copper
  • Antique Brass
  • Gun and Dyed Black.

Benefits of Plating

Electroplating is a process that uses an electric current to coat a metal with a thin layer of another metal. This process can be used for a variety of purposes, including:

– To protect the metal from corrosion
– To increase the metal’s resistance to wear and tear
– To give the metal a different appearance

Electroplating can be used on a variety of metals, including steel, aluminum, brass, and copper. The process is relatively simple and can be done at home with a few basic supplies.

PVD / Vacuum Plating

What is PVD (Vacuum plating)?

Vacuum evaporation method is a method of heating metal under high vacuum conditions, melting and evaporating it, and forming a metal film on the surface of plastic after cooling. Commonly used metals are low melting point metals such as aluminum.

Vacuum plating is suitable for ABS material and PC material products, mainly including vacuum evaporation sputtering and ion plating.

 

What’s the difference between plating and PVD?
Vacuum plating is not water plating. The main difference between the two is that vacuum plating is carried out in a closed ultra-low-pressure container, and water plating is carried out in an aqueous electroplating tank. The former is a physical process, and the latter is an electrochemical process.
 
The fundamental difference between vacuum plating and water plating is that one is a physical change, and the other is a chemical change. Water plating is to reduce metal ions to metal and deposit on the workpiece, while vacuum plating uses physical deposition to slowly deposit the coating on the surface.