Expanding Boundaries in Strip and Reel-to-Reel Finishing
For manufacturers demanding wider substrates without compromising precision, Precious Plate delivers advanced surface finishing solutions up to 500mm wide—engineered for tight tolerance, layer uniformity, and production efficiency across large-format materials.
Broad Capabilities, Consistent Results
Precious Plate provides precision electroplating and selective finishing services for manufacturers in electronics, automotive, renewable energy, and connector industries. Whether scaling up from prototype to full production or bringing highly specific design tolerances to life, our expanded width capacity ensures accuracy and repeatability at every scale.
With expanded processing capabilities of up to 500mm, Precious Plate combines decades of selective electroplating experience with continuous-strip technology to meet increasing design complexity and part size requirements.
Our equipment flexibility and proprietary masking systems make it possible to maintain narrow tolerance zones—even across wide substrates—allowing customers to consolidate processing steps and streamline supply chains.
Enables efficient plating of broad reels, foils, and strip materials, reducing setup time and handling.
Minimizes material waste and concentrates precious metals where performance matters most.
Achieved through closed-loop monitoring, precision masking, and inline measurements.
Supports copper, nickel, tin, palladium, and gold finishes on a range of substrates.
From R&D prototypes to high-volume manufacturing with consistent process integrity.
Optimized material usage lowers per-component finishing costs on wider formats.
Environmentally responsible operation using advanced bath conditioning and metal recovery systems
Expanding finishing width up to 500mm introduces new engineering and process control challenges. Precious Plate’s vertically integrated workflow ensures every project maintains accuracy, adhesion, and repeatability from start to finish.
Through these steps, wide-format plating maintains the same dimensional accuracy and coating performance expected from narrower strip products while expanding production potential.
Engineers evaluate substrate material, finish specifications, and selective requirements to establish process parameters.
Substrates are cleaned, degreased, and micro-etched to achieve optimal adhesion and surface activation.
Precision masking tools align selective zones across the wide substrate to protect un-plated areas.
Computer-controlled deposition ensures uniform thickness distribution across the entire 500mm width.
Noncontact thickness measurements and visual inspection confirm process stability and quality compliance.
Finished materials are reeled, labeled, and documented with full process traceability for quality assurance.
A manufacturer of high-current power distribution components in the automotive industry required broader copper strip plating to support new busbar designs. By partnering with Precious Plate, the engineering team achieved consistent gold-nickel selective finishes across the 500mm width, improving current efficiency while reducing overall plating cost by 18%.
Manufacturers evaluating wide-format plating often have questions about technical limitations, lead times, and customization options. This section addresses the most common areas of interest to simplify your evaluation.
Our equipment accommodates copper, brass, phosphor bronze, stainless steel, and aluminum substrates.
We provide finishes including gold, nickel, tin, palladium, and silver, in full or selective configurations.
Lead times vary with material type and masking complexity but typically range from 3–5 weeks from final drawing approval.
Yes. Our process engineers routinely design custom masking and plating parameter sets for nonstandard zones or asymmetric coatings.
All wide-format plating is validated with in-process sensors, profilometry, and post-plating thickness testing to ensure adherence to customer specifications.
When production demands evolve, Precious Plate scales with you. Our 500mm width finishing capability delivers the precision, technical depth, and production efficiency required by today’s most advanced manufacturers. Every process is backed by decades of specialized expertise and a commitment to quality excellence.