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Seeking Vacuum Metallizing Services
I have a requirement to vacuum metallize about 1,000,000 small plastic components each year. Each part is about 5g.
We are a plastic injection molder, so we can produce the part in a platable ABS, but I want to know if a platable HIPS exists?
In addition I am looking for somebody to do the work for me the first year, and help me to ultimately do it myself.
Does anyone recommend a supplier between Vancouver and Toronto, or in the USA on the pacific coast?
Stephen Lawson
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ed. note: This RFQ is outdated, but technical replies are welcome, and readers are encouraged to post their own RFQs. But no public commercial suggestions please ( huh? why?).
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