You want your customers to see only the lustrous coating of precious metal on the surface of your jewelry. In reality it’s the layers underneath which pave the way for such brilliance. CTC makes chemicals for every type of preparatory plating and flashing, from copper strike to satin nickel. Our solutions provide maximum brightness, smoothness and reflectivity, while creating an effective seal for your base metal. For our comprehensive plating guide, covering every possible plating combination please CLICK HERE

Bright Bronze

A nickel-free alternative; provides a uniformly bright smooth surface as a direct precursor to gold plating for brass and copper alloys.

Bright Copper

Creates brilliant luster for dull metals and alloys in preparation for nickel or nickel-free plating.

Copper Strike

Prepares dull substrate metals for Bright Copper mirror

finish; also works as an effective bonding agent by increasing the base metal’s conductivity

Nickel Strike

Prepares semi-bright base metal surfaces, such as stainless steel, for nickel or other color flashing; also works as an effective bonding agent by increasing the base metal’s conductivity

Bright Nickel

Provides a hard intermediate layer of uniform mirror-like brilliance to base metals in preparation for precious metal; provides a barrier between the nickel and metal surface

Satin Nickel

Provides a very special smooth sandblasted “pearl-like” look; an elegant end-result after Micro-Gold and gold flash plating.

Nickel-Free

The use of nickel in jewelry plating has become a major issue due to health concerns. Nickel content is already regulated in Europe and other areas may follow the lead. Nickel-Free solution is a tin/copper alloy, which provides the same outstanding hardness and uniform white brilliance as nickel-bearing solutions.