Finishing and special processes

Finishing, anti-tarnishing and a number of special procedures round off the plating process.

	Product name	Supplied as	Applications	Suitable for
Colouring	Noirit Black oxide	liquid (ready to use)	produces an adhesive blue-black layer which does not flake off	silver, silver alloys, copper
Anti-tarnish solution for silver surfaces for gold surfaces	Electrolytic anti-tarnish solution Anti-tarnish solution CRFs Anti-tarnish solution CRFg	liquid (concentrate or ready to use)	produces a transparent protective layer	silver surfaces silver surfaces gold surfaces
Stripping	Nickel Stripper MEX II	solid (salt)	chemical stripping of nickel layers and rhodium layers with a nickel substrate	nickel on gold, silver, copper and their alloys
	Gold Stripper 100	solid (salt) or liquid (ready to use)	stripping of gold and gold alloys	iron, nickel
Lacquers	Silver Conducting Lacquer	liquid (ready to use)	gives an electroplatable conductive layer	e.g. wood, plastic, ceramics, glass
	Covering Lacquer blue	liquid (ready to use)	masking for selective electroplating	alcaline bahts like silverplating, colour gold plating bath and for acidic baths like rhodium as well
	Covering Lacquer red	liquid (ready to use)	masking for selective electroplating	only for acidic baths such as rhodium and gold baths
	Masking Pen	dosing pen	easy, precise lacquer application	only for acidic or non-alkaline baths
Titanium colouring	Titanium pickle	liquid (ready to use)	activation of titanium surfaces	titanium and titanium alloys
	Titanium colouring solution	liquid (ready to use)	creates coloured oxide layers	titanium and titanium alloys
Precious metal recovery	Rhodoclaim powder	solid (powder))	recovery of rhodium from solutions	spent rhodium baths and rinses

You can download a brief data sheet for each material by clicking on the Pdf-symbol in respective last column.