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Coating and Plating Processes - Plastic Plating, Plastic Metalizing, Plastic Chroming
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Plastic plating is the
process of electroplating or coating a metallic layer onto a plastic substrate.
The plated coatings can be used for decorative purposes such as chrome
finishes, or for engineering applications such as selectively plating
conductive ‘tracks’ in a process which is practically the reverse of the
traditional etching method for producing PCBs.
Types of metals which
can typically be electroplated are copper, nickel, tin and gold. Plastic
substrates plated with copper and then suitable for secondary plating
operations such as applying chrome finishes. In most cases the plastic material needs to be ABS for the platic plating process to work effectively.
Other coating
processes used are spraying with conductive paints and vapour depositing. Using
these processes it is possible to coat a plastic substrate with materials such
as graphite, aluminium, stainless steel and silver.
Some typical
applications for these processes are decorative stainless steel, aluminium and
chrome finishes, ESD dissipative coatings, RFID antenna, 3D electronic circuit
tracks, mobile phone antenna, interconnect, heat sinks, keypad circuits,
semiconductor packaging, EMI/RFI shielding, conductive gaskets, tamper
resistant circuit covers and the enabling of wireless circuit and product
designs. Browse the directory below to find suppliers with plastic plating capability.
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