Plating on Magnesium

Many companies can find it advantageous to plate on magnesium. Magnesium is a desirable substrate to use due to its abundance as an element, and it is also has very good strength to weight ratio.

Plating Magnesium and Magnesium diecast is very important as it is very susceptible to the impact of corrosion over time. One of the difficulties of plating on Magnesium is that it is a highly re-active metal. It is so reactive that it can react with metal ions in the bath which will leave the poor plating on the part. To solve many of the issues with plating on Magnesium we offer our Top Maglock Process. It offer everything needed from cleaner to zincate to get you to the electrolytic part of the plating process. For more information please contact us.