Specialist plating equipment
designer and manufacturer,
Plasticraft, has completed
the installation of a highly
sophisticated electroless
plating line that is meeting
the specific needs of
industrial print head
manufacturer, Xaar. The
equipment, installed at Xaar’s
Huntingdon manufacturing
facility, fulfils a number of
key processing requirements
– not least the need to
operate within a clean room
manufacturing environment.
The Plasticraft system
comprises a fully enclosed
process line dedicated to the
electroless plating of Xaar’s
X1001 printer head, which is
installed on printers.

Featuring 1000 individual
nozzles, the plating, onto a
ceramic substrate, has to
achieve stringent parameters
in terms of consistency and
thickness – a coating of just a
few microns, for example, is
required.