Metal Plating, What are benefits of plating? What are the types of metal plating?
What is metal plating? The plating process is a manufacturing process in which a thin layer of metal coats a substrate. Metal plating provides many benefits to products made from metal and other materials. This mostly achieved through electroplating, which requires an electric current, or through electroless plating, which is in the autocatalytic chemical process. Benefits of plating: Improved corrosion resistance Decorative appeal Increased solderability Enhanced hardness Reduced friction Enhanced paint adhesion Altered conductivity Increased magnetism material deposition Types of metal plating: Copper plating Copper is a popular plating metal for applications that require high conductivity and cost-efficiency. Copper plating often serves as a strike coating pretreatment for subsequent metal platings. It is a popular plating metal for electronics components such as printed circuit boards. High plating efficiency and low material cost make copper one of the less expensive me...