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Nickel free silver plating for jewelry

1998

I am a jewelry manufacturer and electroplater and am facing problems with nickel free silver plating.

I hv already tried white bronze as a base plating before silver plating but haven't been successful with controlling the tarnishing and palladium plating before silver plating turns up to be too expensive.

Mandeep Singh

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1997

Hi Mandeep,

With reference to your father's visit in Holland a few weeks ago, I hope that the Degussa company came up with the solution for the problem you are facing.

Bye,

Herman

Herman Tiggeler
Accessa BV

Another possibility is a bright cobalt deposit.

Uwe Berger
- Blasberg, Germany
1998

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In a related letter, Ken Lemke stated that cobalt might have the same problems as nickel in causing allergic reactions.

  
Tom Pullizzi
Falls Township, Pennsylvania
1997

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1998

Tom,

a medical test (patch test) in Germany showed that cobalt gives not the same reaction as nickel.

One reason can be that normally you have more contact to nickel than to cobalt. So perhaps it is only an alternative for nickel for the next years.

There are some shops in Germany using cobalt as a substitute for nickel.

Uwe Berger
- Blasberg, Germany

try BRONZES NF NICKEL FREE FROM ENTHONE-OMI OR DECOREX FOR PALLADIUM

ROBERTO ARIAS
- metalquimica
1998