Plating Processes

CSL offers more than 40 types of plating and coating processes.

Electroless Nickel: Corrosion protection, hardness, wear, non-magnetic (>11%P)
Ni-Lube™: Low coefficient of friction, non-galling, hardness combined with lubricity
Dicronite: Very low coefficient of friction, high temperature stability, extremely thin, strong bond with metals
Anodize: Hard, insulator, abrasion resistant, sealable for various colors
Passivation: Corrosion protection
Chemical Film: Underlayer for paint adhesion, corrosion protection
Sulfamate Nickel: Low stress, corrosion protection
Bright Nickel: Hardness, aesthetics
Gold: Corrosion protection, good reflectivity, aesthetics
Silver: High electrical and thermal connectivity, low friction
Tin: Good reflow, soft
TTH: Ni-Cd replacement, high reliability in electrical interconnect environements
Cadmium Replacement Coatings: CSL offers the only proven process that meets all the performance requirements of cadmium plating, including a stringent 1000-hour salt spray corrosion test. Applications include high-reliability electrical interconnect components.
Nitulloy: A process that mimics chromium, both in appearance and property; this very thin coating can provide bright deposit and wear protection.
Difficult to Plate Materials: Making use of a hydrogen filled high-temperature sintering technique, we work with many difficult-to-plate materials such as metal matrix composite (MMC), copper-tungsten (Thermkon®), and copper-molybdenum, as well as pure metals and alloys of titanium, tungsten, and nickel.
Nickel/Boron Nitride Composite Coating: This highly wear-resistant coating combines hardness of nickel and wear protection of Boron Nitride with higher temperature tolerance than Ni-Lube.This coating can be used to replace Hard Chromium in many applications.


Visit our facility

We invite you to see how we can solve your plating challenges first-hand.

To schedule a visit, contact:

Mahesh Naik
mahesh@csl-plating.com
408.727.0893 x106