The use of electroless nickel plating on industrial parts is continually increasing. As well as replacing more traditional finishes on existing applications, new applications make use of the many and varied features providing multiple plating benefits to end users.
Rediscovered accidentally in an American Research laboratory in 1945, a century after its original discovery, autocatalytic nickel alloy coatings better known as electroless nickel, have been available commercially in the USA since 1954 and in the UK since 1959.
In contrast to conventional electrolytic processes, electroless nickel plating does not use an electric current to produce a deposit, but operates chemically.
Deposition will only take place in the presence of a catalyst. The properly prepared basis metal acts as the initial catalyst and since the deposit itself is also a catalyst, the reaction continues auto-catalytically. Thus varying deposit thicknesses can be obtained as long as the reacting chemicals are replenished.
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