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Plating of Stainless steel door handles and other hardware items

I want to start new business of plating hardware items of stainless steel like handles, kitchen baskets, knobs, etc. Would you please guide me which is the best and cheapest quality process to do so.

Dipen Patel
Industrialist - Rajkot, Gujarat, India
November 28, 2010

Hi, cousin Dipen.

If you are making these items from solid stainless steel, what metal do you wish to plate them with and why? If you are making the items from plain steel and planning to electroplate them with a layer of stainless steel, sorry, but stainless steel is not an electroplateable material. You would need to plate them with nickel or nickel and chrome. Good luck.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
November , 2010

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