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In today’s highly competitive business climate, just about every manufacturer is looking for ways to reduce operating costs. Factors such as increased environmental regulations and cheaper overseas labor make it more challenging than ever for manufacturers to turn a...

A process known as zinc plating is frequently used to protect metals such as iron and steel against corrosion. Rust, being the biggest threat to any metal, has corrosive effects that can be devastating when serving larger applications within the automotive, military,...

From a manufacturing standpoint, zinc electroplating on zinc die cast parts can be one of the more uniquely difficult processes companies work through. Great Lakes Metal Finishing has developed a one-of-a-kind internal cleaning process with a product fallout below 1%–...

Proper metal electroplating is important to any manufacturing process the deals with metal products and machinery in the military defense industry. Finishing, or metal plating, generally involves applying a metal coating on a certain application to form a protective...

Black zinc electroplating provides automotive parts with consistent deep finishes with a high degree of corrosion protection at a lower cost than zinc-nickel plating. The black trivalent zinc passivate is the topcoat applied after the zinc electroplating process is...

While the use of hexavalent chromates has been a staple of the metal finishing industry for many years, recent years have seen compelling research questioning the safety of using hexavalent chromium-based systems. Great Lakes Metal Finishing is experienced in...

Great Lakes Metal Finishing Inc. has been providing plating services for the automotive industry for over 24 years. We specialize in zinc and zinc nickel electroplating with trivalent black, trivalent yellow, and trivalent clear metal finishing on automotive parts for...

At Great Lakes Metal Finishing, we know that many companies struggle to produce a deep consistent black finish without brown coloration, or an iridescent appearance to the coating. With over 40 years of experience, we’ve developed a process that allows for deep...

Aerospace, Automotive, and Military Metal Finishing Specifications With all the different variations and groupings of numbers and letters, keeping track of what exactly each metal plating specification means can be tricky. Here’s a small sampling of some of the more...