Electroforming

Spring 1987

Electroforming

Plating can be roughly divided into three main categories -plating for decorative purposes, plating to resist or prevent corrosion, and plating for functional purposes. One more, relatively new category, however, is electroforming, in which products are made from the plating material itself.

Yoshinori Hosoe and Yasuo Uda, Taiyo Industrial Company