VILA has a variety of electrolytic baths of different sizes/volumes for electroplating coating with hard chrome, nickel and copper.

Hard Chrome Plating

Our chrome purification plant ensures that our baths deliver optimum performance at all times. This ensures the chrome solutions are always as new, resulting in superior chrome quality.

VILA companies are able to provide a high-quality finish by hard chrome deposition.

We have the ability to apply our hard chrome to a large range of parts, from small shafts or bores to laminating cylinders, conductor rolls, cooling rolls, turbine rotors or printing rolls.

Steel roll coated with hard-chrome in a VILA factory

Chromium offers extreme hardness, low coefficient of friction, and resistance to abrasion and wear. We offer different finishes according to the client’s needs. 

Thickness between 50 and 500 microns can be plated on surfaces rising up to 1000 microns.

Maximum hard-chrome plating dimensions, Ø=1500mm, H=6000mm

Turbine rotor shaft repair at a VILA factory
Wind turbine wind shaft repair, dimensional restoration by means of metallic coatings

Nickel Plating

Heavy nickel deposits enable the reclamation of damaged, worn or incorrectly machined engineering components and provide chemical and high temperature resistance.

As a duplex layer, it could be used as a corrosion barrier beneath hard chrome deposits on components such as laminator cooling rolls and conductor rolls to prevent attacks on the base materials through the micro-porous structure of the chromium.

All our nickel deposits can be turned and ground to customer specifications in our well-equipped machine shop.

A nickel thickness from 1 up to 5,000 microns can be plated on surfaces.

Maximum nickel plating dimensions, 2000 x 2000 x 8000mm

Large shaft repair, dimensional restoration using nickel electroplating

Copper Plating

We have an efficient and high-quality copper plating process with four electrolytic baths of different dimensions that make us capable of coppering from conductor rollers to large rollers used in the printing sector.

We can apply different thicknesses according to our customer needs. In addition, our machining area deals with grinding and polishing as specified. Ask us any questions.

We are experts at electroforming high quality, seamless copper sleeves delivering the best combination of heat transfer and roll rigidity. With copper’s high-thermal efficiency, our copper sleeves are the preferred choice for companies wishing to increase their line speeds, improve their product quality and reduce their operating costs.

A thickness from 1 up to 20,000 microns can be copper-plated on surfaces.

Maximum copper plating dimensions, Ø=1500mm, H=4400mm

Manufacturing of large copper sleeves for rolls at a VILA factory