Here’s the short story of advantages:

Advantage:  We buy our raw material from the finest cold-finished bar mill in the industry, . .our sister company Bar Technologies located 100 feet away. 

• Benefit: Our inventory management means we can fill and ship your current and JIT orders, and we have total control of quality, start to finish.

Advantage: Order parameters are entered into the IHCMS (Industrial Hard Chrome Manufacturing Process).

• Benefit:  Provides complete material traceability and eliminates human error  

Advantage: The steel is dropped in queue, It is then human and computer monitored at each station to all requirements and specifications.   

• Benefit: Eliminates waste, keeps our costs and your costs down. Also makes replication possible tomorrow or next year.

Advantage: The turned, ground and polished bars emerge from Bar Technologies ready for chrome plating at Industrial Hard Chrome, 100 feet away. 

• Benefit: Saves time and money for you because your order is completed and shipped faster. There is no expensive truck transport between the cold finishing operation and chrome plating.

Advantage: At Industrial Hard Chrome the steel is handled once, and only once, at the beginning of the process.  

• Benefit: Maximized manufacturing velocity, to minimize cost .

 Advantage: Bars are perfectly chromed  in our continuously filtered, proprietary plating solution, and polished and untouched go to FPM (if applicable) for cutting and machining. 

• Benefit:  Another time and process-saving feature of buying from us.

Advantage: Your order  leaves IHC or FPM to be shipped to you 24 hours a day.

• Benefit:  When your order is ready it can leave our facility quickly and be on its way to you faster.