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Surface Conditioning

To deliver best-in-class adhesion, the surface must be cleaned and free of dirt and oxides. Our portfolio of surface conditioning products delivers a perfectly pure substrate to receive a metallic finish.

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Strippers Multimetal Cleaners Activators Buffing Compound Removers Cleaning Systems High Alkaline Cleaners Descalers
Anti-Corrosion

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Anti-Corrosion

When durability is the highest priority, our anti-corrosion finishing solutions deliver best-in-class results, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

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Light Metal Finishes

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Light Metal Finishes

With the most comprehensive light metal solution portfolio, count on MacDermid Enthone to exceed expectations and requirements, with proven expertise and performance.

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Decorative Coatings

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Decorative Coatings

Our extensive line of decorative coating solutions deliver cost-effective and environmentally compliant processes, in a range of bright, satin, white, and dark finishes.

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Chrome Nickel Copper Post-Treatment
Plating On Plastics

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Plating On Plastics

We provide a full range of Plating on Plastic technologies for decorative applications, designed with environmental compliance and sustainability in mind.

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Conventional Cycle Chrome-Free Etch Direct Metallization
Electroless Nickel

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Electroless Nickel

When wear resistance is the top priority, count on MacDermid Enthone’s electroless nickel solutions to deliver the performance you can trust.

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Reduced Ion High Phosphorus Medium Phosphorus Low/Medium Phosphorus Low Phosphorus Specialty EN Composite EN
Wear Resistance

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Wear Resistance

When deposit hardness and wear resistance is paramount, count on MacDermid Enthone to deliver best-in-class solutions, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

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Hard Chrome
Precious Metals

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Precious Metals

Delivering luxury surface finishing solutions that don’t just finish your luxury products, they complete them.

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Adhesion Layer Bronze Silver Gold Palladium Platinum Rhodium Passivation
PET Recycling

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PET Recycling

From cleaners and additives to plastic separation enhancing products and defoamers, our comprehensive portfolio of PET Recycling products delivers process-enhancing, environmentally friendly solutions.

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WaterCARE

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WaterCARE

Effective water resource management is our corporate responsibility, which is why we are leveraging our industry-specific expertise to provide a portfolio of wastewater treatment chemistries tailored to solve our customers' unique challenges.

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Antifoaming agents Metal precipitants Flocculants Coagulants
All Solutions

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All Solutions

Delivering innovative solutions designed to meet the evolving demands of the dynamic surface finishing industry and ever-changing customer requirements.

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Surface Conditioning

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Surface Conditioning

To deliver best-in-class adhesion, the surface must be cleaned and free of dirt and oxides. Our portfolio of surface conditioning products delivers a perfectly pure substrate to receive a metallic finish.

See featured products

Strippers Multimetal Cleaners Activators Buffing Compound Removers Cleaning Systems High Alkaline Cleaners Descalers
Anti-Corrosion

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Anti-Corrosion

When durability is the highest priority, our anti-corrosion finishing solutions deliver best-in-class results, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

See featured products

Zinc Zinc Alloys Passivates Sealers
Light Metal Finishes

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Light Metal Finishes

With the most comprehensive light metal solution portfolio, count on MacDermid Enthone to exceed expectations and requirements, with proven expertise and performance.

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Surface Conditioning Anodizing Additives Sealers Conversion Coatings
Decorative Coatings

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Decorative Coatings

Our extensive line of decorative coating solutions deliver cost-effective and environmentally compliant processes, in a range of bright, satin, white, and dark finishes.

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Chrome Nickel Copper Post-Treatment
Plating On Plastics

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Plating On Plastics

We provide a full range of Plating on Plastic technologies for decorative applications, designed with environmental compliance and sustainability in mind.

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Conventional Cycle Chrome-Free Etch Direct Metallization
Electroless Nickel

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Electroless Nickel

When wear resistance is the top priority, count on MacDermid Enthone’s electroless nickel solutions to deliver the performance you can trust.

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Reduced Ion High Phosphorus Medium Phosphorus Low/Medium Phosphorus Low Phosphorus Specialty EN Composite EN
Wear Resistance

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Wear Resistance

When deposit hardness and wear resistance is paramount, count on MacDermid Enthone to deliver best-in-class solutions, ensuring your products perform in the most challenging environments.

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Hard Chrome
Precious Metals

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Precious Metals

Delivering luxury surface finishing solutions that don’t just finish your luxury products, they complete them.

See featured products

Adhesion Layer Bronze Silver Gold Palladium Platinum Rhodium Passivation
PET Recycling

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PET Recycling

From cleaners and additives to plastic separation enhancing products and defoamers, our comprehensive portfolio of PET Recycling products delivers process-enhancing, environmentally friendly solutions.

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Antifoams Detergents Separation Additives
WaterCARE

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WaterCARE

Effective water resource management is our corporate responsibility, which is why we are leveraging our industry-specific expertise to provide a portfolio of wastewater treatment chemistries tailored to solve our customers' unique challenges.

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Antifoaming agents Metal precipitants Flocculants Coagulants
All Solutions

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All Solutions

Delivering innovative solutions designed to meet the evolving demands of the dynamic surface finishing industry and ever-changing customer requirements.

All Solutions

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Mid-Low Phosphorus Electroless Nickel

ENOVA EF 163

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ENOVA EF 163

ENOVA EF 163 is formulated to produce a bright and uniform deposit that achieves a high hardness and produces a very wear resistant coating. The system achieves deposition rates that average 0.8 mils/hr (20 μm/hr) over the entire solution life.

Operational advantage

The system is highly tolerant to contaminants and has a wide operating window. It exhibits excellent solution stability over a prolonged solution life and is easy to operate and control.

Deposit performance

ENOVA EF 163 deposits match more expensive and harder to operate EN-boron films and is superior to other Ni-P coatings. It exhibits lower intrinsic tensile stress resulting in improved adhesion as well as little to no effect on the fatigue strength of alloy and/or high-strength substrates. The deposits produced are ideal for critical wear applications when heat treatment is not possible or practical.

Industries Served

Aerospace & Defense

Automotive

Oil & Gas

Textile & Print

Electronics

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Features & Benefits

High as-plated hardness (~700 Hv)
Excellent wear resistance in a wide range of applications
High and consistent rate of deposition over the solution life
High tolerance to contaminants
Exceptional solution stability
Reduced deposit staining tendency

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Sustainability

We are committed to delivering sustainable processes for the surface finishing industry. Our lead- and cadmium-free portfolio, including ENOVA EF 163, offers a safe and sustainable electroless nickel process, coupled with unmatched performance. The process meets ELV Directive 2000/53/EC Annex II, WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC, and RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC.

Mid-Low Phosphorus Electroless Nickel Product Portfolio

ENOVA 163

Mirror bright, hard as-plated medium phosphorous electroless nickel process

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