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.

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 and Corvettes. For lovers of early Corvettes, chrome plating played a major role in the overall styling. From the famed tooth grille of the C1 Corvette to those final chrome bumpers of ...

Stellantis plans to no longer offer chrome in vehicles due to health and environmental risks, CNN reports. Chromium-6, used in chrome plating, can potentially cause cancer to workers who face exposure ...

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 ...

SHANGHAI-- Cherng Yi Hsing Plastic Plating Co, a chrome plating company from Taiwan, expects sales to automakers in North America to jump this year after a big surge in 2009. "We had a 30 percent ...

The open hood of a Chevrolet Impala reveals a chrome-plated engine compartment at a Long Beach metal plating shop. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the ...

Chrome plating and Corvettes. For lovers of early Corvettes, chrome plating played a major role in the overall styling. From the famed tooth grille of the C1 Corvette to those final chrome bumpers of ...