The chrome layer is very hard (circa. 1000HV/72HRC) and offers excellent wear resistance thus reducing tool maintenance and increasing tool life. Less tool wear and maintenance allows for improved production efficiency and reduced costs.

Chrome has excellent anti-stick characteristics. Plastic residue is much less likely to adhere to the chromed surface. Subsequently, part quality and production rates can be significantly increased. Tool maintenance can be significantly reduced. The anti-stick characteristics allow for much easier release of the finished component from the tool.

The thin layer mimics the existing surface condition of the tool. Textured and polished finishes are maintained.

The chrome layer is applied without affecting the surface condition of the base material. The chrome layer can be removed and reapplied with no detrimental effects to the base material.

The layer is applied to the surface of the tool corresponding to the non visible surface of the finished component.

The chrome layer provides all of the benefits of thin layer chrome as well as offering the following, additional benefits.

The thick deposit  reduces the wall thickness of the finished product in a controlled manner. Consequently raw material costs and component weight are reduced and production rates are increased.

The layer thickness can be controlled locally to provide optimum finished wall thickness over the whole of the finished part.

The surface texture can be controlled locally to provide optimum material flow characteristics thus improving production rates.

Using this process when chrome plating five bumper cores for a leading automotive manufacturer  resulted in an annual saving of £290K in raw material costs alone.

DMI are also able to offer:
The supply of portable pellet welding machines.
The weld repair of surface porosity, weld porosity and small areas of damage.
On site brush plating.
On site hard chromium plating.