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WHAT'S NEW at APC?

Artistic Plating Featured in Products Finishing Magazine for Expansion in Medical Industry
Artistic Plating was recently featured in a cover story of Products Finishing Magazine…

Artistic Plating to once again Exhibit at 2012 Medical Design and Manufacturing Show in Minneapolis, MN
Artistic Plating will be exhibiting in booth 1436 at the upcoming 2012 MD&M Minneapolis show in Minneapolis, MN October 31st through November 1st…

Artistic Plating Launches Expansion of Precision Tin/Lead and Lead Plating Lines
Artistic Plating recently tripled the capacity of precision tin/lead and lead plating services due to recent growth in plating within the bearing, power distribution/transmission and energy sectors…

Artistic Plating Expands with New Flagship Heavy Build Copper Plating Line
Artistic Plating recently launched its newest plating line, which was designed to offer expansion in heavy build copper plating. "This line is truly a state-of-the-art machine that combines over sixty years of plating experience with today’s most modern PLC and SCADA controls…"

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Bearing Plating Services

Bearing PlatingArtistic Plating is a leading supplier of critical plate-to-gauge bearing plating services across a wide range of industries.  We understand the demanding finishing requirements of bearings and are experts at the intensive RMS requirements, dimensional inspections and selective plating requirements that are essential to provide bearing plating services for even the most challenging application.

Artistic Plating currently services the defense, aerospace, railway, petrochemical and heavy mechanical sectors with bearing plating services in lead plating, tin/lead plating, electroless nickel plating, copper plating and silver plating services.  Customers such as Electromotive Division (EMD), Northrop Grumman, GE Transportation and Ingersoll Rand rely on the bearing plating services of Artistic Plating.

Bearing Plating Services – Bearing Materials

Various substrate materials are used in the fabrication of low, medium and high load bearings.  Artistic Plating offers bearing plating services on nearly any substrate used in Bearing Platingthe fabrication of bearings including leaded brass and bearing bronze, aluminum alloys, stainless steel, tool steel, as well as brazed, babbitted or multi-layer combinations of bearing materials.

In addition to working with various bearing substrate materials Artistic Plating offers a full line of plating layers and can provide multiple finish combinations in concurrence with your needs.  If a special alloy of plated layer is required – Artistic Plating can source it.  Exotic combinations of tin, lead, copper, indium and silver have been provided based upon the specific application of bearing plating services.

Bearing Plating Services – Selective Bearing Plating

Many applications of bearing plating services require selective plating methods due to the heavy build of the plated layer.  Artistic offers a wide range of masking techniques to fulfill Bearing Platingeven the most demanding selective bearing plating application including liquid apply masks, UV cure masks, mating components or fasteners, custom die-cut tapes, standard silicon masks and custom molded masks.  Where most job shops shy away from the engineering demands of selective bearing plating services – Artistic welcomes the opportunity to provide the solution.

Bearing Plating Services – Plate-to-Gauge Requirements

Plating to a final dimension is the single most critical aspect of bearing plating services.  Artistic Plating’s quality and engineering teams provide a full range of dimensional inspections on all bearings plated.  Critical pre and post-plate dimensions as well as specific inspection methods are documented within the detailed finishing protocol.  All Bearing Platingbearings go through a customized receiving inspection protocol for dimensional verification prior to release to the plating line.  Multiple measurements of a statistically relevantsample set are made during the plating process to ensure each lot of parts meets the final plate-to dimensions. 

Artistic Plating has a wide range of internal and external micrometers to verify plate-to dimensions in bearing plating services.  Application-specific gauges such as Sunnen and digital bore micrometers are used as needed to ensure bearings meet print specifications.  Our quality and engineering teams are trained in repeatability and reliability methods (R&R) to give you confidence in our bearing plating services.