Electroplating for the home and hobbyist

Putting it as simply as possible; electroplating is the process of coating a material with a metal using electricity. Ok, there’s a little bit more to it than that but essentially it’s using electricity to deposit a metal onto another surface. The chemistry involved can be quite detailed and dependant upon what specific process being performed, these pages will give the viewer and greater understanding of electroplating without the details which may well have been forgotten many years ago from what invariably may well have been just a couple of hours science lesson at school.

Why YouPlate

Experience

We have decades of experience in the metal finishing trade and offer sales and service to industrial metal finishers around the UK.

We manufacture high grade formulated products as well as supplying quality raw materials. After numerous requests from smaller users for our products we now offer our industrial products for small scale professional use.

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Quality

Our products are of the highest quality available and the products you see on these pages are the products used every single day in industry; and indeed have been serving British industry for many many years. The products available here include many traditional formulas but also many more modern products with modern chemistry which allows for quality results on an industrial scale.

Range

We have products and materials to electroplate numerous deposits onto a range of surfaces and hope you’ll find the contents of these pages informative and the products available as exciting as we do! 

Whilst electroplating is a simple, basic chemistry, the process itself can be quite complicated, so we hope that with the help of these products and this website we can make the process as simple and effective as possible. 

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