A hybrid coating process involving two suppliers often results in a lead time of several weeks for two processes that, taken together, take just a few hours. The rest of the time is spent on queuing, packing, transport and incoming inspection, and most of this is duplicated because the work is split between two companies....
A crate of parts is returned by the customer’s client. The coating is flaking off along the edges of a handful of parts. Not on all of them, just on some. This triggers a job that no purchaser has factored into the budget. The supplier of the galvanic undercoat sends their...
From Uldum’s perspective, Sweden is not a distant export market. It’s right on our doorstep. Several of our biggest customers are on the other side of the Øresund, and many of them have been working with us for years. This collaboration has taught us what Swedish buyers expect from a subcontractor....
On 4 October 1986, Chem-Tec in Uldum fulfilled its first order. Edge connectors on printed circuit boards were to be gold-plated, and the work took place in a 166-square-metre hall with two production lines. Today, 40 years later, Chem-Tec Plating A/S has 35 employees, 12...
The distance from Uldum to Hamburg is around 300 kilometres. From Munich to Hamburg, it is almost 800. This distance comes as a surprise to most people. It also says something about how a German buyer might view Denmark. For a company in northern Germany, a Danish supplier is closer...
Consulting on decorative surface treatment at Chem-Tec Plating The end customer of a designer lamp never sees the metallurgy. She sees the surface. And she judges it in less than a second, with her eyes and fingertips, long before she thinks about what lies beneath....
A customer standing in a showroom choosing a faucet never sees the brass inside. She sees and touches the outer layer: the color, the shine, and the feel under her fingers. That layer is more than decoration. For a kitchen or bathroom faucet, the surface is by far the...
Chem-Tec Plating advises in four industries. In mechanics it becomes most obvious why. Here the geometry of the part determines what is even possible to coat, and that decision should be made while the drawing can still be changed. When the geometry is locked, the choices are also...
Architects prescribe the color before they prescribe the brand. Chrome is still in the fixture displays, but it shares space with matte black, brushed gold, copper and gun metal, and homeowners choose their faucet the way they choose a lamp: for the expression. It has moved...
In many development projects, surface treatment is the last item on the list. The part is drawn and the tolerances are determined. Only then is the question asked: What coating should actually be applied? The order is understandable. It is just often unfortunate. The part's...
Most electronic products are designed before anyone talks to those who will be coating the components. The material is chosen, the geometry is determined, and the tolerances are written into the drawing. Only then does the question of surface treatment come to the table....
Some surfaces need to do more than just look good. A tool that is used a thousand times a week. A fixture that needs to look the same in ten years. A mechanical component where friction costs a lifetime. For these types of tasks, we offer PVD coating, and in this article...
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