Chrome plating is hardly a matter of dipping a bumper into a tank filled with chemicals. It is a long, involved process that often starts with polishing and buffing, cleaning and acid dipping.

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Chrome plating and Corvettes. For lovers of early Corvettes, chrome plating played a major role in the overall styling. From the famed tooth grille of the C1 Corvette to those final chrome bumpers of ...

If you’re anything like The Drive’s editors, you actually take your car outside and let it experience the world—no garage shut-ins here. It breathes in neighborhood air, feels the local pavement, and ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Beijing, China--(Newsfile Corp. - October 26, 2024) - PROTO has launched a chrome plating service designed for ...

California could ban chrome plating commonly used to restore classic cars and provide protective coating for industrial parts. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) For decades, hexavalent chromium has ...

Since 1986, California has classified hexavalent chrome as a toxic air contaminant to which there is no safe level of exposure. Despite that, it remains the ingredient used in chrome plating, but ...