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News Release from: Sifco Applied Surface Concepts (UK) | Subject: Nickel-cobalt replaces hard chrome
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 October 2006
Nickel-cobalt can replace hard chrome
Nickel-cobalt deposits that can be used successfully as an alternative to hard chrome have similar properties to hard chrome such as high hardness, excellent wear and corrosion resistance.
Chrome plating has long been used in a large range of applications such as aerospace, oil and gas industry, general industry, power generation industry as well as for decorative purposes The growing awareness over the past decade of the health, safety and environmental hazards associated with chrome plating led to a development of safer and environmentally friendly alternatives
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Contract plating services include a 'job shop' facility and the supply of certified technicians to do the electrofinishing work at a customer's facility or at any location world-wide.
Sifco has developed nickel-cobalt deposits that can be used successfully as an alternative to hard chrome in various applications.
Sifco nickel-cobalt deposits have similar properties to hard chrome such as high hardness, excellent wear and corrosion resistance.
They also have two main advantages compared to hard chrome.
The first one is that they are environmentally friendly and the second one is that they have very high deposition rate.
Major aerospace companies have already approved the replacement of hard chrome with Sifco nickel-cobalt deposits.
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