Metal Plating Laboratory Services

Metal Plating

Metal plating is a manufacturing process involving the coating of a metal object with a thin layer of another metal to enhance its properties, such as corrosion resistance, aesthetic appeal, and wear resistance. This technique is widely used in industries like automotive, electronics, aerospace, and jewelry, contributing significantly to product durability and performance.

Metal Plating Testing and Research Services

Contract Laboratory can help you with all your Metal Plating testing, analysis, scientific research and development, inspection, certification, engineering, failure investigation, and product development needs including:

Thickness measurement (using X-ray fluorescence or micrometers)
Adhesion testing (tape test
bend test
peel test)
Corrosion resistance testing (salt spray test
humidity test)
Hardness testing (microhardness
nanoindentation)
Visual and microscopic inspection
Chemical composition analysis
Wear resistance testing (abrasion test)
Electrical conductivity testing
Surface roughness measurement
Plating uniformity assessment
Thermal cycling and thermal shock testing
Hydrogen embrittlement testing (for high-strength steel components)
Porosity testing
Coating integrity testing (dye penetrant
magnetic particle inspection)

Type of Metal Plating Products

Contract Laboratory can assist your company, academic institution, government agency or organization in outsourcing contract laboratories to perform testing, analysis, and product development for many Metal Plating finished products, processes, systems, in-process materials, raw materials and components such as:

Electroplated jewelry
Chrome-plated automotive parts
Gold-plated electronics connectors
Nickel-plated hardware
Silver-plated tableware
Zinc-plated fasteners and bolts
Copper-plated printed circuit boards (PCBs)
Tin-plated electrical components
Decorative plating for consumer goods
Palladium-plated medical instruments
Cadmium-plated aerospace components
Rhodium-plated optical components
Hard chrome plating for industrial machinery
Anodized aluminum parts
Decorative and protective coatings for household items

Metal Plating Test Methods and Standards

Contract Laboratory can help with testing, analysis, assays, evaluations, examinations, inspections and certifications to different Metal Plating test methods, standards, procedures or specifications.

ASTM B555 - Standard Guide for Measurement of Electrodeposited Metallic Coating Thicknesses by Dropping Test
ASTM E2144-11== - Standard Practice for Personal Sampling and Analysis of Endotoxin in Metalworking Fluid Aerosols in Workplace Atmospheres
ASTM E2657-16 - Standard Practice for Determination of Endotoxin Concentrations in Water-Miscible Metalworking Fluids

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