Home : Products : By Application : Plating

Specialized pre-cleaning materials and electrocleaners for the plating industry are part of the superior technology offered by Chemetall Americas. You can count on us to assist in maximizing your plating process performance.
Pre-Cleaning
An excellent cleaner and conditioner for aluminum prior to electroplating, Surfcon 300 is non-phosphated, liquid, acidic, low-foaming, and ideal for spray washer application.
Electrocleaners
Oakite 90 is a powdered alkaline reverse current electrocleaner for steel and pure copper. It also anodically removes smut, oil and other shop soils from steel prior to plating.
Powdered Oakite 190 is a heavy duty reverse current electrocleaner for removing especially difficult smut, embedded soils or light rust from ferrous metals.
Oakite 195 is an inhibited alkaline, reverse current electrocleaner for zinc-based die castings, copper and steel. It may also be used with direct current for copper, brass, lead and Brittania metal or with periodic reverse current for brass, copper, zinc and some other metals.
A general purpose electrocleaner, Oakite 295 can be used on a large variety of alloys including steel, stainless steel, brass, bronze and copper, as well as nickel and lead using direct current.
Non-phenolic Oakite Stripper R8 is an electrocleaner for use with either direct, reverse or periodic reverse current.
Oakite Acid Dip is a powdered material dissolved in water and applied between electrocleaning and electroplating for neutralizing alkaline films, removing rust, oxides, and tarnish.
Oakite Rinsite is a liquid additive for improved rinsing in metal cleaning and plating operations. Rinsite prevents water spotting and retards rusting.
Plating
Applied by batch or continuous operation, Gardobond CU 15 is a process for electroless copper plating of iron material to facilitate wire drawing.