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IT’S HOW YOU FINISH

IT’S HOW YOU FINISH

We’re a developer and supplier of chemistries for the metal finishing industry since 1948.

In PAVCO, we develop products and deliver services of the highest quality at a reasonable cost.

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Maximizing Productivity in the Zinc Barrel Plating Process

October 08, 2024

Maximizing Productivity in the Zinc Barrel Plating Process

Minimize Replating Costs: How to Remove Zinc Plating Correctly

October 08, 2024

Minimize Replating Costs: How to Remove Zinc Plating Correctly

Plating Automation: Enhance Quality and Reduce Production Time

October 08, 2024

Plating Automation: Enhance Quality and Reduce Production Time

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  • Finishing technologies
  • June 29, 2022

Troubleshooting with SEM

Our eyes are useful for many tasks. They can see a bright blue finish on parts fresh out of the passivate, a smooth, satin finish coming out of a nickel tank, or those obnoxious specks of mystery material adhered to an otherw...
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  • Plating methods
  • June 23, 2022

Top 10 Troubles in a Functional Plating Shop

There is a vast list of things that can go wrong in a typical functional plating process. Most platers find ways to keep that list as short as possible. For now, we are mainly talking about alkaline zinc or zinc nickel, as we...
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  • Finishing technologies
  • June 17, 2022

Past and future of passivates

When you think of a passivate (or chromate as they used to be), what comes to mind? For some it’s a deep orange-yellow hex-chrome tank where in goes a brilliant, metallic finish and out comes a beautiful iridescent yellow or ...
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