Electrochemicals Blog – EPI – Electrochemical Products Inc.

September 26th, 2008

By Eric Olander

Eric Olander, President of EPi and John Gilbert, Sales Representative of Gilbert & Jones install a new E-Brite Ultra Cu bath (alkaline non-cyanide copper) to replace a copper  pyrophosphate  with excellent success. One advantage is the E-Brite Ultra Cu alkaline non-cyanide copper bath is it does not generate the orthophosphate like the pyrophosphate bath. The E-Brite Ultra Cu bath also plates directly to electro-less nickel (EN), while the pyrophosphate copper bath had to use a cyanide copper process. Another expected benefit is the bath stability day after day as it has a larger operating window than the pyrophosphate bath. The customer is also using cyanide copper strike prior to plating zinc die-cast and zincated aluminum parts and then the pyro copper. We can eliminate the cyanide copper process as well.

The E-Brite Ultra Cu is the same process that we used plating directly to the back of an I-pod . Click on E-Brite Ultra Cu to watch the video.

Gilbert & Jones is EPi's distributor in the New England area. To learn more about Gilbert & Jones go to www.gilbertandjones.net. John Gilbert has may years of experience in the metal finishing industry and solves problems for his customers. Gilbert & Jones is a full line distributor that can meet all of your needs. Gilbert & Jones and EPi make a great team!

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