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Higher Plating Profits
through Technology Implementation
If it’s
lower operating costs and higher profits you want, it’s time to
join forces with Electroplating Technologies, Ltd. ETL has developed
the highest level of efficiency in electroplating sheet metal technology.
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What
Our Clients
Are Saying
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"The
results we’ve experienced with HydroJet are outstanding. We’ve
essentially doubled the capacity of our plating operations by utilizing
this custom-tailored technology. The expanded capacity will enable
us to expand our markets."
James
G. Belmonti,
Chairman & CEO
Precision Plating Company, Inc.
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In
early 1993, we began our R&D work on hydraulic cylinder rods and were
soon able to set a world record plating rate. By applying
ETL’s ElectroJet® technology, hard chromium was deposited on
steel cylinder rods, at a rate of 25 microns (1 mil) in only 6 minutes.
By using
ETL's HydroJet™ technology, we believe we can plate 25 microns
(1 mil) of hard chromium in only 3 minutes. ETL is starting a program
with other industry partners to prove out the higher deposition rate
by the end of 2004. Also as part of the program, our consortium will
experiment with Cr+3 as a replacement for Cr+6 in this series of R&D
experiments.
For the
past several years we have made our primary effort the continuous
plating of flat rolled sheet metal, because of the commercial
significance of that market. The result: ETL has developed two proprietary
and patented methods and apparatus for electroplating flat rolled sheet
metal: 1) ElectroJet®,
a hydromechanical plating system and 2) HydroJet™,
a hydrodynamic plating system. Each system has proven capable of
achieving the following results, based upon hundreds of millions of
pounds of electroplated sheet metal product produced and shipped by
ETL’s licensees:
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Twice the plating rate
vs. conventional plating processes.
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Double the line speed
related to plating rate.
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Reduced labor costs
by 30% or more.
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Lower energy costs—input
from rectifiers cut by 20% per unit product produced.
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Lower environmental costs related
to more efficient process which generates less effluent by-products.
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Lower maintenance costs
related to simple system design.
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Coating metal savings—no
"dog-boning".
These remarkable
results are supported by the relatively LOW COST TO RETROFIT
an existing plating line with ETL’s technology. The payback for
such conversions is often less than six months, with ongoing savings
and higher profits thereafter.
How affordable
is our efficiency? The cost of implementing ETL’s technology and
services package is about one-hundredth as much as other high efficiency
systems used for continuous plating of sheet metal!
The word
must be getting out: ETL has strategic business alliances with some
of the world’s largest metals companies and electronic materials
companies. Our technology has also been featured in 33 Metal
Producing, American Metal Market, Iron and Steel Engineering,
Plating and Surface Finishing and several other industry publications.
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