Geostationery Lightning Mapper, GLM.

…Technology has been sole and single source for the low emissivity gold coating on the Radiometer and the Sounder on every GOES spacecraft for more than thirty years. See, http://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/glm.html…

Rhodium

…p.249 – Vol.102 no. 4A).” Note: The image shown above was obtained through Wikipedia and is provided by Alchemist-hp (www.pse-mendelejew.de), licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)….

Masking

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,…

Contact Us

Sales, Technical Inquiries & Administration   279 Frost Street Brooklyn, NY 11222 Phone: (718) 782-5948 Fax: (718) 963-2930 E-mail: info@epner.com If you would like more information about our processes or…

Hardness

…when measured by the diamond-indenter method of ASTM-B-578-87. Laser Gold passes the 50-rub test of Mil-O-13830, and paragraph 3.8 and 4.4.5 of Mil-M-13508. It will withstand judicious (procedurally controlled) cleaning…indefinitely….

Tech Data – Plating on Plastics

…the engineering plastic the Epner plates require a fine bead blast to slightly roughen the surface to promote adhesion that will withstand an oven bake or the “cross-hatch tape test”…

Automotive

…the Ford Motor Company. Thermal Foil Effectiveness Evaluation Efficiency Comparison Test Report – Ford Motor Company Thermal Response of Pyromeral Composite Artline Engineering OY Metropolia Motorsport Formula Engineering DiMora Motorcar…

The Men Who Built The Company

Emmanuel Cohan (1888 – 1957) One of the original founding partners of Cohan-Epner, Emmanuel Cohan was an American-born son of Hungarian immigrants. In 1910, he and his brother-in-law, Louis Epner,…

Gerald Epner (1915 – 2004)

…the company was then known, succeeding Emanuel Cohan who, with Louis Epner, founded the company in 1910. In 1961, he moved the operation from Manhattan to a new 60,000 square-foot…

Microwave and Electronics

An early component from the “Star Wars” days. This so-called “pulsed compression cavity” was fabricated in aluminum, polished and then electroless nickel plated followed by .001” copper, which was highly…

Design Considerations – Plastic

…di-electric materials including the engineering plastics such as Ultem™, Teflon™, Ryton™ and Torlon™…and of course ABS. We are able to plate these substrates in any of our 200+ plating baths….

Laser Gold Thermal Barrier Foil

A copper foil > .001″ thick (0,025 mm) is coated with Laser Gold for the ultimate thermal control barrier. The auto race car market has driven the need to protect…

Thermal Foil Effectiveness Evaluation

Compared to a Competitor’s Foil’s Performance For Automotive Applications Jack M. Kleinfeld, P.E. November 28, 2003 Abridged version, December 4, 2003 Thermal Foil Effectiveness Report Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc. Homepage…

Plastic Microwave Filter Housing

…in the field of microwave and electronics. The plating of dielectric materials such as Ultem®, Ryton®, Torlon®, Teflon® and carbon fibre composites and ceramics is a specialty of Epner Technology….

Design Considerations – Laser Black

…SEM Photo). Unfortunately, these dendrites will show evidence of being touched, however, the overall performance of the surface will not be degraded if this “touching” is performed in a small…

Corrosion Resistance

…to your substrate once the corrosive atmosphere has been defined. A hundred years of plating know-how helps Epner Technology choose the right combination of materials to solve this universal problem….

ITAR/EAR Registered

…Regulations (ITAR). Epner is also in compliance with the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, Export Administration Regulations (EAR) for export of EAR components. Epner has…

On These Substrates

This section lists the common and not so common substrates Epner plates to withstand most adhesion tests, such as those encountered when soldering or brazing. This list represents an accumulation…

Ex Stasis (1988)

…of four, like the ending of Mahler’s “Song of the Earth” – “ewig, ewig, ewig, ewig, ewig, ewig…” From Richard Lippold’s Memoirs Photo of Richard Lippold with Ex Stasis  …

Copper

MIL-C-14550 AMS-2418 ASTM-B-734 APPLICATIONS DIE CASTINGS STEEL PARTS PRE-PLATE FOR ACID COPPER STEEL WIRE-ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY DRAWING LUBRICANT STOP-OFF FOR CASE HARDENING The largest single application for cyanide copper is plating…