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Copper Plating of Plastics

I'm quickly learning that many companies offer copper plating as only the beginning of a process that follows with chrome or nickel plating, etc. Can I achieve a high quality copper plate on plastics and leave it at that? What thickness of copper can be achieved...and what is typical for this process?

Teri Ward
Product Designer - Sand Springs, Oklahoma
August 14, 2008

Hi, Teri. Certainly you can. In fact many circuit boards are made by plating copper onto the board. Typical plating thicknesses range from the low ten thousandths of an inch to the low thousandths of an inch. Please explain what you are doing as the answers to abstract questions are almost always misleading.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
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finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
August 14, 2008

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