Products Finishing

JAN 2013

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Automotive Auto Drives Plating in S.C. PAlmeTTo PlATing ThriveS on ingenuiTy, AuTomoTive PArTS AnD noT SAying ���no.��� By Tim Pennington, Editor T he first time John Cutchin tried his hand in the plating business, he was still in high school and a little wet behind the ears when it came to the science and chemistry of surface finishing. ��I plated a pair of baby shoes,�� Cutchin says. ��It was just something I wanted to try, and it was interesting.�� Several decades later and now the owner of Palmetto Plating in Easley, S.C., Cutchin is still plating shoes, albeit the casings for brake shoe pads for U.S. vehicles. More than 1 million of them pass through the tanks each year at Palmetto, which specializes in anodizing, black oxide, chromate conversion coatings, decorative and hard chrome, electroless nickel, pickling and passivation. hunter and John Cutchin in their easley, S.C., plant, Palmetto Plating, which specializes in automotive parts such as brakes. 12 JANUARY 2013

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