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Seeking plastic plating services - nickel plating on PC/ABS parts

October 26, 2011

I have a fairly large project I'm looking to find a plater for. The parts are PC/ABS injection molded parts that need to be plated with copper and then nickel (copper only because nickel can't go directly onto the plastic substrate).

Once plated, several of the parts get brushed, which is very precise and needs to be done meticulously, possibly by hand.

This process has been done for several years in Asia and we are considering moving it back to the US.

Sarah Jones
manufacturing - Commerce, California, USA

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