Copper Plating
Copper is commonly used throughout the offshore – oil and gas industry as a solution to galling problems on stainless steel couplings and threads. Copper is also used extensively in the manufacture of circuit boards.
There are many benefits to coating with copper.
- Good electrical conductivity. Copper has nearly the same electrical conductivity as silver but at a far lower cost.
- Anti-galling: Copper solves the galling problems that come with threaded couplings.
- Copper is highly corrosion resistant.
- There are many applications for copper coatings in industry.
- Copper is applied as a masking material in the case hardening
- process used in the manufacture of engineering components.
- Copper is also widely used in the manufacture of couplings,
- threads and seal surfaces for offshore and general engineering.