Selective Plating (Electroplating) Services
Artistic Plating is an industry leader in providing selective plating services in some of the today’s most demanding industries including aerospace, medical and petrochemical industries. Selective plating services are provided on our entire line of plating services including nickel plating, electroless nickel plating, silver plating, gold plating, lead plating and tin/lead plating services.
A wide range of masking techniques and applications can be provided to mask surfaces to your specifications including liquid apply 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 plating services – Artistic welcomes the opportunity to provide the solution.
Selective Plating Services – Why Selective Plating?
Selective plating services have application for a wide range of reasons. The following list cites just a few examples of where Artistic provides selective plating services:
- Bearing Applications: In the bearing industry selective plating services are often provided to eliminate plating build on surfaces where the plated babbitt is not desirable.
- Complex Geometries: Complex part geometries such as manifolds often require selective plating services utilizing masking to prevent air entrapment within the part and resulting inadhearant immersion deposits.
- Heavy Build Applications: External threads or interference fits are often masked in heavier deposit applications to prevent oversize of the outside, inside or pitch diameters.
- Blind Holes: Often blind holes are masked in critical applications to prevent the potential for entrapment of plating chemistry resulting in work-out staining of aesthetic concerns.
- Assemblies: Selective plating services of assemblies can be required to prevent deposition on components of the assembly where the coating is undesirable from a functional standpoint. Masking can also be provided to protect dissimilar metals of an assembly from the chemistry of the plating process.
Artistic Plating welcomes the opportunity to provide selective plating services for yourdemanding application. Our dedicated 
engineering team can work in association with you design and engineering staff to determine the best methods and techniques to provide the selective finish. For additional information please visit our contact us section or you can forward your current request via our online request for quote.
