Recently read online mentioned "hardware plating" and "plastic electroplating" the difference between the two? Find relevant data is not completely after access to relevant information, read the most information, summarize both plastic and metal plating electroplating several differences as follows. 

Process the difference between 

Plastic plating and plastic electroplating process is: in addition to the oil - water - coarsening - and - in - the activation - glue solution - chemical nickel - coke copper, acid copper - nickel - chromium 

Metal plating process is: cleaning, electroplating copper sulfate nickel - plating semifinished, all-optical nickel - plating chromium plating - drying 

Material difference 

Hardware plating substrate is metal, such as iron, zinc alloy, copper alloy, etc. Base material is plastic and plastic electroplating. Due to the base material is different, its early treatment process was completely different, but the subsequent plating basic are all the same. This is from material found on the difference between both.  

The price difference 

About the price between the two aspects: want to see what is your land coating material, plating thickness requirements and testing requirements, also look at many factors will affect the price of plating, such as: you want to give a chromium plating on plastic surface area is small, is relatively cheap, to a larger hardware on the gold plated, is more expensive, and the plating thickness directly affect the price. Therefore, according to the actual situation to analyze problems, both in terms of no comparability.  

But if it is the same plating, plastic plating is more expensive, because plastic electroplating process is more than a few steps, but also not easy to plating, the difficulty is large, cost is high in nature.  

The characteristics of the difference 

Plastic electroplating is characterized by itself does not conduct electricity, need to first conductive processing, namely for activation and chemical plating, the surface firmly attached to a layer of metal film. And then followed by metal plating no difference.