Palladium-Nickel Electroplating

Summit electroplates using Palladium-Nickel to deliver many performance advantages:

• Palladium-Nickel is more affordable than gold
• Palladium-Nickel delivers excellent ductile resistance
• Palladium-Nickel has a low density and offers excellent solderability
• Palladium-Nickel is harder the majority most gold plating chemistries
• Palladium-Nickel offers great heat and stress resistance
• Palladium-Nickel offers excellent corrosion and oxidation resistance
• Palladium-Nickel reduces usage of precious metal resources

Palladium Nickel plating that meets tight industry specs

Electroplating with Palladium-Nickel at Summit provides both overall coverage and selective coverage to meet required specifications that include ASTM B867. Within this specification, we offer a range of chemistry ratios:

• ASTM B867 | Type I: made of 75% Palladium 75% and 25% Nickel
• ASTM B867 | Type II: made of 80% Palladium and 20% Nickel
• ASTM B867 | Type III: made of 85% Palladium and 15% Nickel
• ASTM B867 | Type IV: made of 90% Palladium and 10% Nickel

Plating thicknesses to meet application needs.

The thickness of Summit’s Palladium-Nickel Electroplating corresponds to the specified end application. Thinner coatings are generally used for delicate electronic circuits and connectors — thicker coatings are required on parts subject to intense electrical, mechanical, and environmental activity.

Enhancing Palladium Nickel plating with secondary coatings

Underplating with Palladium-Nickel
Underplating with Nickel prior to plating with a Palladium-Nickel alloy provides a protective corrosion inhibiting barrier. This barrier helps prevent the migration porous base substrates like copper from diffusing through to the Palladium-Nickel layer.

Overplating with Palladium-Nickel
Summit can also combine Palladium-Nickel with a gold flash overcoat. This dual process delivers the enhanced conductivity and friction-free characteristics of gold — all with significant cost savings compared to thicker gold plating.

A plating alloy as versatile as the industries it serves

The durable, functional, affordable characteristics of Palladium-Nickel Plating make it a popular, economical choice for electrical contacts, connectors, pins, circuits and components used in Aerospace, Telecom, Medical, Oil & Gas, and other inportant Electronics technology. For companies looking to cut cost without cutting spec-meeting performance, the answer just might be Sunnit Plating’s Palladium-Nickel Electroplating!