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Tin Plating is used extensively to protect both ferrous and nonferrous surfaces. Metals plated in Tin are useful for the food processing industry since they are non-toxic, ductile and corrosion resistant. The excellent ductility of tin allows a coated base metal sheet to be formed into a variety of shapes without damage to the surface tin plating layer. Plating with Tin provides sacrificial protection for copper, nickel and other non-ferrous metals, but not for steel.
Tin is a malleable, ductile, highly crystalline, silvery-white metal. This metal resists corrosion from distilled, sea, or soft tap water, but can be attacked by strong acids, alkalis, and by acid salts.
Redundant PLC-Controlled tin plating lines share interchangeable tooling with our other electroplating and chrome plating lines, which has made it so Eastern Plating has never failed to deliver customer parts on-time due to 'downtime.'
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| Tin plating is widely used in the electronics industry because of its ability to protect the base metal from oxidation thus preserving its solderability. In electronic applications, lead may be added to tin plating to prevent the growth of metallic "whiskers" in compression stressed deposits, which would otherwise cause electrical shorting.
Commercially, the metal is deposited in thicknesses ranging from 0.0001”- 0.0005”, depending upon the intended application and the corrosion protection required, the majority of which is 0.0001”-0.0003”, commonly known as “Commercial Tin." Basic Data for Tin:
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