BY TIM PENNINGTON EDITOR
How a Michigan shop switched
to a one-step process to get
better brightness.
Electroless Nickel
Baths Get Simpler
Classic Plating uses electroless nickel product
One-Plate from Surface Technology,
a single-component bath makeup and
replenishment solution.
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OCTOBER 2017 — PFonline.com
If you want to send plating shop owners or managers into a
frenzy, ask them to swap out their existing chemical baths for
something that is new to the market. The reaction you will get
may be the equivalent of asking a Coke drinker to try a Pepsi, or
convincing a Bud man to chug a Heineken. It might even get you
a death stare.
Classic Plating co-owner Mike Morgan had no qualms,
however, when Surface Technology President Michael Feldstein
asked him to try his company's new electroless nickel (EN)
product, One-Plate, a single-component bath makeup and replen-
ishment solution.
"No reservations whatsoever," Morgan says. "We put it right into
a 450-gallon tank. We've dealt with Michael and his company for
our EN chemistries, and we know he uses the product, too."
Morgan's father, John, started Classic Plating in 1985 with
Mike's older brother, Ken, but Mike and his brother Steve are
currently the co-owners and have been running it since 1989 with
their sister, Sue Barbret, the company president who also manages
the office. The Redford, Michigan, company has a total of seven
employees, including the ownership family.
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