Electroplating

Cookson Industrial has a wide range of equipment, chemicals and accessories for electroplating and other surface treatment of metals.

Our extensive experience and in-house innovations developed over the years enable us to provide a comprehensive range of universal electroplating chemicals tailored for various stages of processing. Our range includes pre-treatments, salts, plating solutions, finishing solutions and other electroplating accessories. We also have a selection of electroplating and microplating machines, which are suitable for gold, silver and rhodium plating. These electrolytes, meticulously developed in our in-house laboratories, are extensively used in our own in-house plating shop, ensuring they meet the demands of your daily operations with confidence.

To maintain the highest quality, we operate a cutting-edge analysis laboratory that rigorously monitors the plating process. Certified to DIN EN ISO 9001 standards, Heimerle + Meule is globally recognized for its commitment to quality, expertise, and reliability—values that ensure exceptional and sustainable results for our customers.

We are the experts in electroplating chemicals and equipment and can support any industrial electroplating project with tailored and customised solutions to meet your needs. 

What we can offer you:

• Pretreatment: Achieving high-quality plating results begins with optimal surface pretreatment. With our extensive expertise, we provide proven bath chemicals designed for hot and electrolytic degreasing, as well as ultrasonic cleaning, ensuring exceptional preparation for superior plating outcomes.
• PM electrolytes: The use of precious metal electrolytes in the jewellery industry and goldsmiths’ workshops is indispensable for brilliant jewellery finishes.
  In addition to the basic colours of the pure precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium, We can offer you a fascinating spectrum of other gold shades as well as rhodium and ruthenium in black.
• Pen plating: In addition to precious metal electrolytes for use in immersion plating, we naturally also have numerous products for pen plating. All rhodium, gold and silver shades are precisely coordinated with the colours used in the immersion process.
• NPM electrolytes: Nickel and copper are often used as intermediate layers in decorative surface plating.
• Finishing and special processes/PM solutions: As experienced specialists in precious metals, we supply a broad spectrum of tried-and-tested chemicals for post-treatment, anti-tarnish protection and specialised processes, usefully supplementing individual processing.

Don’t forget that our qualified team is available to advise and support you in the reprocessing and recovery of your waste.