Electroplating Laboratory: Creating a Controllable and Stable One-Stop Process

As a professional manufacturer of hardware accessories for footwear, bags, and apparel, we offer a one-stop manufacturing process from mold developing, CNC machining, stamping, polish grinding, surface treatment to electroplating. During the electroplating process, we have a professional laboratory that monitors the solutions throughout the entire process and performs daily testing and recording concerntration of chemical solution concentration, additives, pH value, impurities, and plating thickness.

Regular testing and promptly adjustments help avoid common problems such as color differences, unstable gloss, roughness, and insufficient adhesion. Data-driven process control reduces fluctuations caused by relying  on experience-based operations, ensuring products have a stable appearance, excellent adhesion, and corrosion resistance.

Why are laboratories needed? To upgrade quality from "finished product inspection" to "process control."

In hardware manufacturing and electroplating, the most common problems include color difference, uneven plating, poor adhesion, insufficient corrosion resistance, or large batch variations. If problems are only discovered in the finished product, it often leads to delays, rework, and even damage to the brand roputation. Therefore, the purpose of a laboratory is to control quality from the source, rather than to remedy the situation afterward.

• Stabilize the quality of the chemical solutions:Precisely detect parameters such as metal ions, brighteners, and pH value to ensure that the electroplating solution remains in optimal condition.
• Precision electroplating control:Monitor temperature, voltage, and current, and adjust them in real time according to the test results to avoid haziness, burning, color difference, and bubbling.
• Data-driven management:Analyze the concentration daily/per batch, replenish the soution according to the standard range, and complete the record-keeping.
• Regular solution updates and maintenance:Replenish or replace the solution according to the analysis report to maintain the long-term stability of the electroplating line.
• Compliance with international environmental regulations:Ensuring compliance with REACH, CPSIA, and other lead-free, nickel-free, and low-cadmium requirements gives international buyers greater confidence.

• Prevent problems, rather than waiting for them to happen:Daily analysis and adjustments can prevent color differences, dullness, roughness, or coating peeling.
• Improve electroplating stability and consistency:Precise monitoring of the ratio of metal ions to additives ensures more consistent coating results for each production.
• Scientific verification of product performance:Combined with salt spray, aging, and XRF tests, it verifies the corrosion resistance and durability of hardware.
• Improve the reliability of mass production:Establish traceable testing data to reduce customer complaints and return risks.
• Strengthening international buyers' trust:Building own laboratory demonstrates comprehensive quality management capabilities, enabling to shorten delivery times and respond quickly to needs.

• Titration analysis equipment:The composition of the chemical solutions , the content of metal ions, and the proportion of additives were measured.
• pH and conductivity meter:Monitor the acidity/alkalinity and activity state of the solution.
• Colorimetric and gloss testing equipment:Ensure consistency in brightness and color tone of the electroplated appearance.
• Film thickness tester:Confirm that the coating thickness is uniform, neither too thin nor too thick.

Titration analysis equipment

pH and conductivity meter

XRF metal composition analysis