Mechanical Plating

(Mechanical Galvanising, Inverplex, Almac) Mechanical Plating (Peen Plating) is universally recognised as the answer to ensure plated products have no hydrogen emrittlement.

High tensile products can be mechanically plated with the confidence of ensuring that your product performance is not compromised by embrittlement.

The process is carried out at ambient temperatures in rotating tulip shaped rubber lined barrels containing glass impact media, surface conditioners and zinc powder.

The energy expanded from the rotation of the barrel causes the glass impact media to cold weld the zinc powder to 100% of the surface area and therefore there are no problems with unoplated areas.