As I have mentioned in my bio, technologies and industries really fascinate me. This is the reason why I spend most of my leisure time reading materials related to these topics and then share them online through this blog. I just thought it would somehow help readers, especially those who are just new in the industry, familiarize some components that play a vital role for the industrial sectors continue to thrive.
This time, I wanted to post about some industry processes that I happened to read recently. These are anodizing, metal plating, and wafer reclaim.
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| Photo Credit: GMP Plating, Inc. - a metal plating company based in Morgan Hill, CA. |
Anodizing - this is an industry process that is very important to the metal industry; the main goal of this is to protect metal materials from rapid ruining caused by rusting. Another reason is to protect metal from wear and tear, which is necessary for industries that use metal materials as a main component for their business - e.g. manufacturing, construction projects. The anodizing process use various metallic elements such as aluminum, magnesium, and titanium. Aluminum anodizing is perhaps the most popular because this element is considered to be the most ideal. However, gold anodizing service is getting popular as well.
Plating - metal plating has the same objective - this process is aimed at protecting the metal from rapid deterioration brought by corrosion or rusting. Metal that has undergone plating become more corrosion-resistant, making its life longer. While the anodizing process is carried out by increasing the the thickness of the naturally-occurring oxide coating on a metal material, metal plating involves the addition of a coating of a different metal to the surface plated.
Wafer reclaim - On the other side of the industrial world, another industry process that is also important -- this time, to the semiconductor industry -- is wafer reclaim. With wafer reclaim service, wafer / thin film's life is prolong and this is done by recycling or recovering so that a used wafer can be used again, which can really minimize the costs as there is no need to constantly buy new wafers.
Related: Wafer Reclaim and Recovery
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