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Design Engineering: Industrial Chromium Electroplating Systems

Design Engineering of Chromium Electroplating Systems

Design Engineering Services

ChromeTech offers complete design and engineering services for companies that want to install hard chrome plating systems at their facilities. Our customers typically hire us to design and size the systems, supply layout and construction drawings and generate detailed equipment lists or bid specification documents. Then, the project can be completed in various ways:
  • Our customer purchases and installs the equipment and supplies, based upon specifications generated by ChromeTech;
  • Our customer purchases the equipment and supplies, then hires an outside company to install it;
  • Our customer uses the bid specification document generated by ChromeTech to solicit quotations from companies that supply and install the system components.

Golden Egg and Money Saved

Companies that install their own equipment enjoy numerous benefits:

  • Significant cost savings, especially if the company has available skilled labor that can be redirected to the project for several months. It is possible to save 30% to 50% or more, compared to purchasing a "turnkey" plating line.
  • Employees involved with the installation will gain an intimate knowledge of the plating equipment. This knowledge is valuable when operating or repairing the equipment.
  • ChromeTech's specialized knowledge and expertise in chromium plating and environmental issues is available from the initial concept through the startup and training phases of the project.
  • Proper sizing and selection of heating, cooling, rectification, exhaust ventilation and air pollution control subsystems.

Teamwork

Companies that hire us for the design work, and then solicit quotations from competing bidders realize the following benefits:

  • Assurance that proposals from bidders are targeted to meet their production, quality and environmental goals.
  • Better correlation between bids for comparison purposes.
  • Proper sizing and selection of heating, cooling, rectification, exhaust ventilation and air pollution control subsystems.

Total Integration of Equipment and Building

Integration

ChromeTech takes a holistic approach when designing a plating system. We are keenly aware that each subsystem is related to many other systems, and even to future equipment. For example, we do not promote any type of air pollution control technology that would generate excessive amounts of liquid waste, thus trading air pollution for water pollution. Or, we might reserve space in the secondary containment pit, or in the equipment room, for future tanks or power supplies.

Cad Drawings

What we provide

  • CAD drawings.
  • Throughput projections.
  • Heating, cooling and rinsing calculations.
  • Exhaust system and air pollution control calculations.
  • Material specifications.
  • Equipment sizing.