The REACH-compatible alternative to chrome electroplating

The chrome look is indispensable for many products of our daily life – and now you can provide it without any emissions or use of the toxic hexavalent chrome

Cromatipic® coatings

Cromatipic® sets the new standard in chrome finishing, adding stylish chrome coatings on a variety of plastics materials. It is a technology for chrome plating on plastics based on only two layers: a UV-cured lacquer basecoat with a PVD coating on top. Cromatipic® provides a completely different approach from traditional paint and PVD technologies, which has many advantages compared to electroplating on plastics. Cromatipic® technology is the only plating technology that is already compliant with the REACH regulations.

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Why a Hauzer solution

Hauzer offers the Cromatipic® technology as part of a turn-key factory, which includes all equipment for an efficient production process.

Cromatipic® decorative chrome coatings already meet the REACH environmental standards of 2024 today. These coatings are not only free of hexavalent chrome, but all their upstream and downstream processes are industrialised, validated and proven under serial conditions, and free of risk that necessary substances are further restricted by REACH.
Read the press release about authorization period hexavalent chrome ending in 2024.
Cromatipic® coatings provide a bright or matte chrome look that matches the colour needs of many leading industrial partners. The colour of Cromatipic® coatings is stable during and between production lots.
Additional colours such as black, brown, anthracite and more can be made.
The Cromatipic® process does not result in any distortion of the plastic parts.
Cromatipic® coatings are highly flexible and not brittle, which reduces scrap in downstream assembling processes.
The sputtered chromium layer has a low thickness that avoids any risk for human injury by sharp edges (suitable for airbag components).
Day/night effect chrome surfaces can be created to show back-lit signals or characters. Partly translucent chrome coating provides an alternative decorative chrome appearance and can provide illumination when back lighting is on.
Because Cromatipic® coatings do not contain nickel or copper, there is no corrosion risk.

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Applications for Cromatipic® coatings

Cromatipic® decorative chrome coatings can be used for a large range of applications. First created for the automotive industry, Cromatipic® technology meets that sector’s high visual and technical requirements. This also makes it attractive for applications in other sectors.

Automotive

The automotive industry is strongly driven by style and fashion. Car manufacturers use interior and exterior parts with a metallic look to raise a car’s perceived value for the end customer.

Cromatipic® technology has the potential to replace electroplating in the automotive industry. The technology complies with the most demanding automotive standards and can be used for interior and exterior plastic parts, such as trim, door handles, dashboard parts, profiles, housings, grills, logo items and many more. In addition to a bright chrome look, Cromatipic® technology can also provide many kinds of matt or satin chrome finishes on plastic parts.

The technology is of interest to original equipment manufacturers, tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers as well as plating companies looking to be ready for the future of chrome plating.

Other markets

Cromatipic® is also very suitable for

home appliances: parts for washing machines, laundry dryers, coffee machines
consumer electronics
sanitary equipment
jewellery

Because it is durable and corrosion-free, the Cromatipic® decorative chrome coating can be used on a wide variety of items. Whenever chrome plastic is required, Cromatipic® is the solution.

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New design application for Cromatipic®

Cromatipic® is known in the automotive industry as Hauzer’s clean and environmentally friendly alternative to chrome electroplating. However, design trends are changing, both in automotive and beyond. Designers now want to incorporate backlighting in metal-look design elements. Cromatipic® holds great promise for those applications.

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Cromatipic Milestones

Hauzer is continuing to develop Cromatipic®, our clean and environmentally friendly alternative to electroplating. In our competence centre in Barcelona (Spain), we are running production in serial conditions and developing new applications. This experience has led to an increased maturity level of our Cromatipic® technology. Many technical specifications need our consideration for interior and exterior automotive trims, such as corrosion and scratch resistance, but also resistance to thermal loads and solar radiation. Hauzer engineers are working to meet the requested technical standards.

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Emilio Rodriguez Cabeo

Director Cromatipic

The Hauzer Team

Emilio Rodriguez Cabeo

Director Cromatipic

Mariona Silvente

Sales Manager

Wolfgang Strasky

Sales Manager