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Optimize production performance swiftly and confidently

Using the right analytics solution can help electroplating and coating manufacturers ensure product quality, optimize production processes to support water conservation, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Every day you make choices regarding product releases, process adjustments or responses to new issues. When making important decisions like these, you need to be confident in the data available.

Hach is committed to supporting producers in the plating and coating industry as they navigate the roll-out of new total suspended solids (TSS) standards that drastically drop permitted levels. Are your clarifiers and other traditional equipment performing optimally? Accurate TSS measurements can provide peace of mind—or a plan of action to correct discharge levels.

Global cyanide discharge requirements are also tightening, which may affect your choices in membrane technologies and biological treatment for rinse baths, detoxification and discharge applications. Will your current cyanide levels measure up? Know for sure with test kits and online analyzers.

Choosing a Hach analytics solution enables plating plant operators to:

  • Maximize uptime. Robust, accurate analytics solutions help manage processes and optimize production.
  • Maintain quality. Specifically designed analytics can ensure high quality standards.
  • Maintain compliance. Years of development ensure you can do this safely, easily and economically.
  • Protect your investment. The right analytics are key to long plant life, cost savings and compliance.
  • Benefit from partnering. Local technical support and service deliver adapted analytics solutions.


 

Immersion Baths

Monitor treatment process in immersion baths to ensure quality control of products that comply to specifications, optimize production performance and extend bath service life.

Parameters Relevant to
Immersion Baths:

         flask icon Chrome bath color
         flask icon Copper bath color
         flask icon Chrome bath color
  cog icon   flask icon  pH value

How to Measure:

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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Rinse baths

Keep an eye on process efficiency with the close monitoring of your rinse bath to detect carry-over, optimize rinse steps, and make critical decisions about the reuse of rinse water.

Parameters Relevant to
Rinse Baths
   cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity
   cog icon   flask icon  pH value 
   cog icon   flask icon  Cyanide 
   cog icon   flask icon  Metal ions

How to Measure:

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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Detoxification

Analysis during detoxification helps ensure process efficiency, environmental safety, and correct elimination of cyanide and nitrite.

Parameters Relevant to
Detoxification
   cog icon   flask icon  Cyanide
          flask icon  Nitrite
   cog icon   flask icon  pH value
   cog icon   flask icon  Redox potential

How to Measure:

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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Neutralization

Process solutions designed for the neutralization phase are critical to monitor treatment performance process and maintain regulatory compliance and compliance with legal limit values.

Parameters Relevant to
Industrial Wastewater:
   cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity
   cog icon   flask icon  pH value
   cog icon   flask icon  Redox potential

How to Measure:

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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

flask icon

Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Discharge

Monitor treatment process in immersion baths to ensure quality control of products that comply to specifications, optimize production performance, and extend bath service life.

Parameters Relevant to
Industrial Wastewater:
   cog icon   flask icon Chlorine, free and total
   cog icon   flask icon Cyanide
          flask icon Nitrite 
   cog icon   flask icon Sulfide
          flask icon Surfactants
   cog icon   flask icon Cadmium
          flask icon Cobalt
   cog icon   flask icon Copper
   cog icon   flask icon Chromium, Chromium VI
   cog icon   flask icon Lead
   cog icon   flask icon Nickel
   cog icon   flask icon Silver
   cog icon   flask icon Tin
   cog icon   flask icon Zinc

How to Measure:

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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

flask icon

Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.