Market Composition of Electroless Nickel Plating Industry for Electric Heating Tubes

Market Composition of Electroless Nickel Plating Industry for Electric Heating Tubes

Chemical plating is a surface treatment method that uses chemical methods to reduce metal ions in a solution to metals and deposit them on a substrate surface with catalytic activity to form a coating. It is a autocatalysis reaction, which does not need external current to achieve.

There are many types of metals and alloys for chemical plating, such as Ni-P, Ni-B, Cu, Ag, Pd, Sn, In, Pt, and various Co based alloys. However, from the perspective of industrial scale and application, the main type of chemical plating is chemical nickel plating. Through analysis of data provided by relevant associations and data on the internet, it was found that the industrial scale of chemical nickel plating accounts for over 80% of the entire chemical plating scale, and the commonly referred to chemical nickel plating refers to the chemical plating of Ni-P alloy.

The Development Status of Chemical Nickel Plating Industry

Market composition

Chemical nickel plating is a relatively late and rapidly developing surface treatment technology. Currently, the market distribution of chemical nickel plating is mainly concentrated in Asia and Europe and America. Among them, the chemical nickel market in Asia mainly relies on the increasingly developed manufacturing industry, providing supporting facilities and product processing for related manufacturing industries. The European and American regions, on the other hand, benefit from their technological and R&D advantages and have significant technological advantages compared to other regions around the world.

With the continuous maturity of this technology, chemical nickel plating products have been applied in many industries, from aerospace components to mining and exploration equipment, all of which use chemical nickel plating to meet certain performance requirements.

Basic characteristics of the industry

The chemical nickel plating technology was first discovered in Europe and emerged in the United States. It was not until the late 1960s that chemical nickel plating technology began to enter industrial application in the United States, but the technology at that time was still very immature and stable. The actual large-scale use of chemical nickel plating technology in practical production was in the late 1970s in the United States. At that time, the chemical nickel plating process had become increasingly mature, and the stability and service life of the plating solution had been significantly improved compared to the initial stage.