Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The badge of a customized Chevrolet Impala at a metal plating shop in Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Southern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California could ban chrome plating commonly used to restore classic cars and provide protective coating for industrial parts.

Hard chrome plating has been a reliable industry solution for erosion, wear, corrosion resistance and dimensional reclamation for several years. It can be applied at a practical cost per unit of ...

Visiting a chrome plating shop conjures up images of giant buffing wheels, bubbling vats and parts dangling from wires, and while all of those things contribute to the overall process they are just ...

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 ...

Chromium is a hard and silvery metal that has historically been used as a decorative and protective element for automotive wheels and trim. Given that Chromium is the hardest metal on the periodic ...

The understanding of chromium, and the processes that allow for the chrome plating on our cars, are relatively recent developments. Chromium minerals had been used in various paints in 18th-century ...

Classic car owners in Europe might want to start stockpiling bumpers grilles, hubcaps, wire wheels and exhaust tailpipe finishers. Why? Because if the EU gets its way the chrome that gives each their ...

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 ...

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 ...