Southern California has the nation’s highest concentration of chrome platers, the metal shops that dip car bumpers, plumbing fixtures, airplane parts and other products in large industrial tanks to ...

California is about turn the state's restoration, customization, and other automotive industries on its head. The state is looking to reduce harmful emissions and cancer-causing chemicals. The L.A.

California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the use of a highly toxic metal for restoring classic car parts, protecting aviation components and producing a lustrous metallic finish for a variety ...

Chrome plating is hardly a matter of dipping a bumper into a tank filled with chemicals. It is a long, involved process that often starts with polishing and buffing, cleaning and acid dipping.

MR. WERNICK has performed a service in stating his experience on the degree of protection to be expected from electro-deposited chromium. Much of what he says is quite true, and indeed there is no ...

The European Union (EU) has recently proposed a plan to ban the use of chrome plating materials from 2024. According to the EU, this proposal is necessary because of health reasons. The ban is ...

We recruited 64 nickel-exposed workers and 72 chromium-exposed workers from six electroplating plants (nickel-exposed workers from plants 1 to 3; chromium-exposed workers from plants 4 to 6) in ...