Epner

These metals often require special processing procedures to ensure a successful finish, and may also be rare or very expensive to manufacture, machine and subsequently finish.

Epner specializes in plating a variety of di-electric materials including the engineering plastics such as Ultem™, Teflon™, Ryton™ and Torlon™…and of course ABS.

As a key plating supplier to some of the finest CNC machinists, wire EDM shops and optical fabricators, including single point diamond machining, what can be more natural than to team with these "known quality" customers and add them to our Approved Vendor List.

Selective plating is one of Epner's specialties.  Skilled artists, in many cases, hand paint with a proprietary masking material in areas to be kept free of plating.  In some cases, your part would be plated all over and the masking would be applied to the surfaces we wish to maintain plating, while the rest of the part is stripped.  Pull plugs, threaded Teflon and occasionally custom machined shields are all part of Epner's masking arsenal.

A form of tank-less plating, ETI's brush plating capability offers a unique and highly advanced solution to many plating issues and limitations.  Please consult with an Epner sales representative for any plating inquiries.

Because of Epner's critical role in the coating of optics, our polishing capability is frequently confused for optical polishing or lapping.  Polishing done at Epner Technology is probably better characterized as buffing.  This process has achieved surface roughness averaging less than 5 nano meters Ra (the equivalent of 5 nano meters = 50 angstroms).

Epner Technology is nearly 100 years old!  In those years, vast amount of plating know-how has been accumulated, and that knowledge has been brought to bear on numerous engineering problems in our research and development laboratory.