Manufacturers are continually challenged with ‘make or buy’ decisions. Elements of the make or buy decision include: maximising margin, minimising risk, core business focus, supporting and sustaining the process, process reliability and control, nature of technology...

Gold plating can be used in electronics and high tech products for creating superior corrosion resistance and conductivity enhancement. The gold plating process used is known as “high purity gold plating”. This process ensures as high as possible purity of the gold...

Copper is usually used as an “undercoat” in most common plating processes (e.g. “triple chrome” is copper, nickel then chrome plated) The colour of newly plated copper (salmon pink) makes it appealing as a metal colour alternative, however it tarnishes quite easily. A...

A Class Metal Finishers (Pty Ltd) Celebrated our first 20 years in business in 2009. We feel like we’ve come a long way after starting up in 1989 with just 3 employees!  Couldn’t even count the amount of metal we’ve electroplated onto people’s products (in the...

Gold Plating can “Bling up” your Car and Motorcycle parts!I once saw a Barbecue that had a gold plated lid!! Now that’s extravagant, or so I thought, until one day while surfing the web I came across a pic of a car that was largely gold plated! Just goes to show –...