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Surface Conditioning

To deliver best-in-class adhesion, the surface must be cleaned and free of dirt and oxides. Our portfolio of surface conditioning products delivers a perfectly pure substrate to receive a metallic finish.

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Strippers Multimetal Cleaners Activators Buffing Compound Removers Cleaning Systems High Alkaline Cleaners Descalers
Anti-Corrosion

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Anti-Corrosion

When durability is the highest priority, our anti-corrosion finishing solutions deliver best-in-class results, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

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Zinc Zinc Alloys Passivates Sealers
Light Metal Finishes

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Light Metal Finishes

With the most comprehensive light metal solution portfolio, count on MacDermid Enthone to exceed expectations and requirements, with proven expertise and performance.

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Decorative Coatings

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Decorative Coatings

Our extensive line of decorative coating solutions deliver cost-effective and environmentally compliant processes, in a range of bright, satin, white, and dark finishes.

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Chrome Nickel Copper Post-Treatment
Plating On Plastics

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Plating On Plastics

We provide a full range of Plating on Plastic technologies for decorative applications, designed with environmental compliance and sustainability in mind.

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Conventional Cycle Chrome-Free Etch Direct Metallization
Electroless Nickel

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Electroless Nickel

When wear resistance is the top priority, count on MacDermid Enthone’s electroless nickel solutions to deliver the performance you can trust.

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Reduced Ion High Phosphorus Medium Phosphorus Low/Medium Phosphorus Low Phosphorus Specialty EN Composite EN
Wear Resistance

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Wear Resistance

When deposit hardness and wear resistance is paramount, count on MacDermid Enthone to deliver best-in-class solutions, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

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Hard Chrome
Precious Metals

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Precious Metals

Delivering luxury surface finishing solutions that don’t just finish your luxury products, they complete them.

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Adhesion Layer Bronze Silver Gold Palladium Platinum Rhodium Passivation
PET Recycling

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PET Recycling

From cleaners and additives to plastic separation enhancing products and defoamers, our comprehensive portfolio of PET Recycling products delivers process-enhancing, environmentally friendly solutions.

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WaterCARE

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WaterCARE

Effective water resource management is our corporate responsibility, which is why we are leveraging our industry-specific expertise to provide a portfolio of wastewater treatment chemistries tailored to solve our customers' unique challenges.

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Antifoaming agents Metal precipitants Flocculants Coagulants
All Solutions

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All Solutions

Delivering innovative solutions designed to meet the evolving demands of the dynamic surface finishing industry and ever-changing customer requirements.

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Surface Conditioning

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Surface Conditioning

To deliver best-in-class adhesion, the surface must be cleaned and free of dirt and oxides. Our portfolio of surface conditioning products delivers a perfectly pure substrate to receive a metallic finish.

See featured products

Strippers Multimetal Cleaners Activators Buffing Compound Removers Cleaning Systems High Alkaline Cleaners Descalers
Anti-Corrosion

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Anti-Corrosion

When durability is the highest priority, our anti-corrosion finishing solutions deliver best-in-class results, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

See featured products

Zinc Zinc Alloys Passivates Sealers
Light Metal Finishes

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Light Metal Finishes

With the most comprehensive light metal solution portfolio, count on MacDermid Enthone to exceed expectations and requirements, with proven expertise and performance.

See featured products

Surface Conditioning Anodizing Additives Sealers Conversion Coatings
Decorative Coatings

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Decorative Coatings

Our extensive line of decorative coating solutions deliver cost-effective and environmentally compliant processes, in a range of bright, satin, white, and dark finishes.

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Chrome Nickel Copper Post-Treatment
Plating On Plastics

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Plating On Plastics

We provide a full range of Plating on Plastic technologies for decorative applications, designed with environmental compliance and sustainability in mind.

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Conventional Cycle Chrome-Free Etch Direct Metallization
Electroless Nickel

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Electroless Nickel

When wear resistance is the top priority, count on MacDermid Enthone’s electroless nickel solutions to deliver the performance you can trust.

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Reduced Ion High Phosphorus Medium Phosphorus Low/Medium Phosphorus Low Phosphorus Specialty EN Composite EN
Wear Resistance

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Wear Resistance

When deposit hardness and wear resistance is paramount, count on MacDermid Enthone to deliver best-in-class solutions, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

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Hard Chrome
Precious Metals

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Precious Metals

Delivering luxury surface finishing solutions that don’t just finish your luxury products, they complete them.

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Adhesion Layer Bronze Silver Gold Palladium Platinum Rhodium Passivation
PET Recycling

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PET Recycling

From cleaners and additives to plastic separation enhancing products and defoamers, our comprehensive portfolio of PET Recycling products delivers process-enhancing, environmentally friendly solutions.

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Antifoams Detergents Separation Additives
WaterCARE

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WaterCARE

Effective water resource management is our corporate responsibility, which is why we are leveraging our industry-specific expertise to provide a portfolio of wastewater treatment chemistries tailored to solve our customers' unique challenges.

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Antifoaming agents Metal precipitants Flocculants Coagulants
All Solutions

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All Solutions

Delivering innovative solutions designed to meet the evolving demands of the dynamic surface finishing industry and ever-changing customer requirements.

All Solutions

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Hard Chrome

ANKOR 1160

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ANKOR 1160

ANKOR 1160 is an etch-free process for rapid deposition of hard chrome, designed for equipment operating at current densities up to 1000 A/dm² (10000 ASF), which yields deposition rates of up to ~50 µm/min (~2 mils/min) representing up to 50% cathodic efficiency.

Operational advantage

The process chemistry is resistant to extreme operating conditions without degradation, providing consistent performance during long term operation at extreme levels of bath loading and throughput.

Layering properties

ANKOR 1160 provides a bright, smooth deposit that exhibits an as-plated hardness of at least 900 HV 0.1, which is suitable for achieving the expected corrosion protection per ISO 9227 NSS.

Macro-cracks

Macro-crack density is heavily dependent on the current density of the operation, with densities ranging from 80-100 cracks/cm at 1000 A/dm² in as-plated conditions prior to machining.

Equipment

This process is formulated specifically for use in self-sustaining, compact, and enclosed systems where actual chrome plating takes place in reactors, and not in open conventional tanks.

Industries Served

Automotive

Building & Hardware

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Features & Benefits

Bright, hard, wear and corrosion-resistant deposit
Ultra-high current density tolerance for specific applications
Robust process, suitable for zero-emission, closed loop operations
Liquid replenishment product enabling fully automatic dosing

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Sustainability

At MacDermid Enthone, we are committed to developing sustainable processes for the surface finishing industry. Our etch-free hard chrome solutions, including ANKOR 1160, provide a safe and sustainable solution, designed to deliver unmatched wear and corrosion resistance.

Hard Chrome Product Portfolio

ANKOR 1128

High-speed, etch-free hard chrome plating process for high current density operations

ANKOR 1111

Low-temperature, crack-free hard chrome plating process for brake pistons

ANKOR DYNE 30 MS

Foamless, PFOS replacement mist suppressant for hard chrome plating

ANKOR Hydraulics

High productivity, highly corrosion-resistant hard chrome process for hydraulic rods

ANKOR 1127 PLUS

High speed, etch-free hard chrome plating process

ANKOR 1127

Fluoride-free hard chrome plating process

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