Products Finishing Unveils 2022 Plating and Anodizing Top Shops

Products Finishing revealed the qualifying shops in the electroplating and anodizing category of its annual Top Shops Benchmarking Survey an awards ceremony June 8 at the National Association for Surface Finishing SUR/FIN 2022 tradeshow in Rosemont, Ill.

Launched in 2015, the Top Shops Benchmarking Program is designed to help finishers identify optimal shop floor practices and improve operations and business procedures. Hundreds of shops participate annually, resulting in a wealth of data and statistics that proves invaluable for assessing areas of improvement, such as finishing technology, performance and practices, and business strategy.

“The PF Top Shops Benchmarking Survey is celebrating its 7^th year of providing industrial finishers an in-depth look at how their shop is performing along with a comparison of their data against their peers,” says Products Finishing editor-in-chief Scott Francis.

This year’s qualifying electroplating and anodizing Top Shops are as follows:

• Ace Anodizing and Impregnating, Inc. (Hillside, Ill.)
• AeroDynamics Inc. (Seabrook, N.H.)
• American Metaseal (Arbutus, Md.)
• Avtec Finishing Systems Inc. (New Hope, Minn.)
• BFG Manufacturing Services (Punxsutawney, Pa.)
• ChromeTech of Wisconsin Inc. (Franklin, Wisc.)
• Ecoplating SA de CV (Toluca, Mexico)
• Electro-Spec Inc. (Franklin, Wisc.)
• Electroplating & Surface Engineering SA de CV (Celaya, Mexico)
• Finishing Lab (Bozeman, Montana)
• General Metal Finishing (Attleboro, Mass.)
• Great Lakes Metal Finishing, Inc. (Erie, Pa.)
• H&W Global LLC/Valence ST (Blairsville, Pa.)
• Hohman Plating (Dayton, Ohio)
• IPS (San Diego, Calif.)
• Jagemann Plating (Manitowoc, Wisc.)
• Lustrous Metal Coatings Inc. (Canton, Ohio)
• Makplate Inc. (Gilroy, Calif.)
• Microfinish IPC LLC (St. Louis, Mo.)
• Plateco Inc. (Reedsburg, Wisc.)
• Professional Plating Inc. (Brillion, Wisc.)
• Recubrimientos Metalicos de Mexico SA de CV (Mexico City)
• Silvex Inc. (Westbrook, Maine)
• Surtronics Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.)
• The Electrolizing Corporation of Ohio (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Triplex Plating (Michigan City, Ind.)
• Twin City Plating (Minneapolis, Minn.)
• U.S. Chrome Corp. of New York (Batavia, N.Y.)
• Valence Grove (Grove, Okla.)
• Varland Plating Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Each year Products Finishing celebrates the first-place ranking shop in the survey in each category. This year’s top spot in the electroplating and anodizing category is Triplex Plating (Michigan City, Ind.), a family-owned zinc plating operation that has served the industry since 1939.

Triplex COO Jesse Baldwin says the Top Shops Benchmarking Survey helped the company better understand areas where they performed well and also identify new opportunities. “Last year was our first year applying to the Top Shops program. The metrics we received were game-changing,” he says.

Learn more about Triplex Plating in this month’s Top Shops Insider Column (see page 8).