Silver Plating

E-Brite 50/50 – A unique cyanide-free alkaline silver plating process.

Today, American cyanide silver platers face Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations in reporting potassium cyanide. Switching to E-Brite 50/50 eliminates cyanide and the DHS regulations of reporting cyanide.

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Call 262-786-9330 to order E-Brite 50/50. Need more information about our silver plating processes? Read our sliver plating technical paper (PDF), A New Alkaline CN-free Silver Process for Electronic, Industrial, & Decorative Plating Applications or use our online request form.

Our customer-proven silver plating process is superior to cyanide silver plating in the following areas:

• It plates without a separate brightener additive.
• An additional advantage is that a separate strike plate is not required on copper or brass as with cyanide.

It is superior to other non-cyanide processes because:

• It is cost effective because it plates out of the silver anodes rather than the solution.
• The silver plating anodes do not polarize – it has excellent anode corrosion.
• It plates substantially faster than other processes.
• It is an easy-to-maintain solution with single maintenance additive.
• It has exceptional throwing power.
• Bath stability.

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Functional electronics can be used for Silver Plating; however, this product should not be used for decorative uses such as jewelry.

Please read the article E-Brite 50/50 Metal Finishing Article June 2009

E-Brite 50/50 silver plating is supplied as a liquid concentrate that is used at 50% by volume in deionized water. The E-Brite 50/50 liquid concentrate contains 4 oz. per gallon of silver. Therefore, the 50% working bath will contain 2 oz. per gallon silver. The process is plated at room temperature using silver anodes. The bath is replenished by adding E-Brite 50/51 electrolyte to the bath as the silver anodes are dissolved.

For more information on Metal Plating, check out the following articles:

• Plating Silver Without Cyanide
• Plating on Aluminum Without Cyanide or Nickel