Precious Plate
Precious Plate is a precision plating company that uses selective plating to help reduce precious metal costs for electronic components while enabling high-precision volume production. This article introduces the manufacturing challenges Precious Plate can help solve.
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Challenges Precious Plate’s Functional Plating Can Help Solve
Reducing Precious-Metal Costs
with Selective Plating
Precious Plate helps address higher product costs caused by plating the entire surface with expensive materials such as gold and palladium. It offers selective plating technology that deposits precious metals only on the contact areas where they are needed. This eliminates excess material use in areas where plating is unnecessary, enabling consistent cost savings.
Reducing Off-Target Precious-Metal Loss
with High-Precision Stripe Plating
In selective plating, Precious Plate helps prevent material waste caused by even slight bleed beyond the specified area. It offers AccuStripe technology that precisely controls plating boundaries with a positional accuracy of ±0.002 in. The process minimizes precious-metal loss from overplating and reduces material costs while meeting demanding selective-plating requirements.
Balancing Precious-Metal Savings and Contact Reliability
with Spot Plating
Precious Plate helps prevent degradation in contact performance and electrical signal transmission errors that may arise from efforts to reduce total metal usage. It has established selective spot plating technology that precisely deposits precious metals only where needed. This enables cost savings while meeting stringent requirements and maintaining proper conductivity and high contact reliability.
Supported Plating Processes
| Types of Plating | Gold (Cobalt-Hardened / Nickel-Hardened / High-Purity Soft / Wire-Bondable / Non-Cyanide); Palladium; Palladium Gold; Palladium Nickel; Silver (Bright / Matte / Semi-Bright); Nickel (Sulfamate / Watts); Tin (Reflow) |
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| Substrates | Copper Alloys / Stainless Steel / Aluminum / Polymer (Resin) / Coil Stock / Stamped Parts / Delicate Parts |
| Functional Properties | Conductivity / Low Contact Resistance / Solderability / Wear Resistance / Corrosion Resistance / Biocompatibility |
When Is Precious Plate a Good Fit?
Precious Plate is well suited for applications that require lower precious-metal plating costs without sacrificing precision. It is also a good option when high-volume precision plating is needed for continuous strip components such as connectors, terminals, and lead frames, or when it is difficult to find a plating vendor that can support the transition from full-surface plating to selective plating.
It can also help address manufacturing cost challenges for electronic components in the automotive, telecommunications, medical, and aerospace sectors.
This site introduces companies that offer functional plating services suited to a range of specific needs. We hope it helps you find the right partner.
Precious Plate’s Plating Case Studies
Reducing Gold Usage by 25% with Selective Gold Plating
Challenges Before Implementation
An automotive sensor connector manufacturer needed to improve the signal reliability and corrosion resistance of compact connectors. It also needed to apply gold plating with high precision only where needed while controlling material costs.
Outcome
Precious Plate implemented AccuStripe selective gold plating with a nickel underlayer. The process improved conductivity and corrosion resistance while reducing gold usage by 25%. The process also met the customer’s stringent quality audit standards.
Company Profile
| Company Name | Precious Plate, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Headquarters Address | 2124 Liberty Drive, Niagara Falls, New York 14304 |
| U.S. Locations | Niagara Falls, New York, USA |
| Official Website | https://preciousplate.com/ |
Functional Plating Services
by Industry
and Component Type
Semiconductor Components
“We need a shop for difficult plating others declined.”
Japan, est. 1931
- Precious Metal Plating
for Micro Components - Mitsuya supports uniform precious metal plating on parts down to 0.1 mm in diameter. This can help improve precision and durability in semiconductor inspection equipment.
- High-Adhesion Plating
for Tips and Contacts - Mitsuya has developed an in-house process for titanium and tungsten that does not require heat treatment. It can support high-adhesion plating on pin and card contact areas.
- Support for New Product Development
- Engineers can consult Mitsuya before semiconductor IC specifications are finalized and verify performance through prototypes. This can help reduce development risk and rework costs.
- Electronics and Telecommunications
- Semiconductor Inspection Equipment
- Space Development
Automotive Components
“We need 10 million parts delivered on time, every time.”
U.S., est. 1932
- Consistent Quality and
Lead Times at Volume - Greystone has an annual mass-production record of 130 million automotive parts*1 through machining and plating.
- Single-Source Support from Processing through Plating
- Machining and plating are completed within the same group. Fewer delays between processes can help reduce costs.
- Quality Standards
Automakers Trust - All U.S. locations are IATF 16949 certified, with plating process control that meets OEM quality standards.
- Automotive
- Firearms
Aircraft
Components
“Nadcap is required. We need proven certification experience.”
U.S., est. 1960
- Smoother Approval
from Major Primes - An approved supplier to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and others, with more than 80 Nadcap-accredited processes.
- Aerospace & Defense Work on a Certification-First Basis
- Proven across a wide range of mission-critical components, including missiles and fighter aircraft.
- Meets Defense Standards, Even the Strictest
- Its cadmium-replacement zinc-nickel plating won a 2020 Secretary of Defense Environmental Award and has been used on the F-35*2.
- Aerospace and Defense
- Medical Devices
*2 Source: Anoplate official website https://www.anoplate.com/news-and-events/zinc-nickel-plating-highlights-2020-secretary-of-defense-environmental-award/