ChromeTech Inc. designed complete hard chromium electroplating systems for the following companies:
- AAA Fluid Power Service Lancaster, NY (hydraulic cylinders)
- Chrome World Springfield, OR (railroad couplers)
- Component Repair Technologies, Inc. Mentor, OH (GE and Pratt & Whitney aircraft turbines)
- E.I. Du Pont de Nemours (Dupont)* Martinsville, VA (rolls for fiber industry)
- Forney Inc. Wampum, PA (large rolls for the plastic industry)
- Tobin Tool Shelbyville, IN (transfer rubber molds)
- Hard Chrome Specialists York, PA (large variety of industries)
- High Tech Chrome Plating Madisonville, KY (hydraulic cylinders)
- Plating Perceptions Inc. Twinsburg, OH (aircraft)
- Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. Miramar, FL (Pratt & Whitney jet aircraft turbines)
- Precision Machine & Hydraulics Worthington, WV (hydraulic cylinders)
- Precision Plating Birmingham, AL (hydraulic cylinders & other)
- Quality Bearing Service Div. Brenco Inc. Little Rock, AR (railroad car bearings)
- Quality Bearing Service Div. Brenco Inc. Louisville, KY (railroad car bearings)
- Rexroth Corporation, Mobile Hydraulics Div. Wooster, OH (hydraulic valve spools)
- Scott Machine & Hydraulics Oneida, TN (machine & hydraulic parts, rolls)
- * Designed but never installed
ChromeTech Inc. has performed technical training regarding industrial chrome plating for the following companies and the Department of Defense:
- All of the companies listed above, plus…
- Argo Tech Corporation, Navy Power Programs, Cleveland, OH (weapons systems, navy power)
- Keystone Rolls, Wheatland, PA (rolls for the plastic industry)
- Morgantown Machine & Hydraulics, New Philadelphia, OH (hydraulic cylinders)
- Naval Air Repair Facility San Diego, CA (aircraft components)
- Naval Shipyard Long Beach, CA (naval components)
- Ohio Camshaft, Twinsburg, OH (steel mill rolls)
- Van Hydraulics Staten Island, NY (hydraulic cylinders)
Consulting Tasks
- Argo-Tech Corporation, Navy Power Programs, Cleveland OH
(Equipment and process evaluation)
- Brenco Inc., Petersburg, VA Louisville, KY, Little Rock AR
(Selection, testing and installation of chromic acid purification units.)
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington DC
(Devised and implemented strategy for reducing chromium concentration in recirculating scrubber liquor.)
- E.I. Du Pont de Nemours (Dupont), Martinsville VA
(Devised an electrochemical stripping process for removal of chromium deposits from steel-sleeved aluminum rolls.)
- Keystone Rolls, Wheatland PA
(Solved cooling system problems, environmental consulting)
- Komatsu-Dresser. Peoria IL
(Suggested equipment modifications to improve throughput, evaluated existing air pollution control devices)
- Naval Avionics Center, Indianapolis IN
(Field testing and evaluation of electrowinning systems for copper and lead recovery from rinsewater *)
- Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, Port Hueneme CA
(Field testing and evaluation of ion transfer chromic acid purification equipment *)
- Quality Bearing Service Div. Brenco Inc., Louisville KY
(Probable causes for cone fractures during metallurgical analysis)
- U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington DC
(Expert witness assistance with civil action litigation)
- United States Mint, Philadelphia PA
(Troubleshoot failure of closed-loop waste minimization systems *)
- * Subcontractor to CAI Resources, Scottsville, VA
