At
The Waterbury Plating Company we believe:
1.
Quality
is defined from the customers’ points of view.
We work with our customers on
the product-process development to best satisfy their metal finishing
requirements.
2.
Quality
is linked with profitability on both the market and cost sides.
3.
Quality
is built into the strategic and long-term planning process.
4.
Quality
is an organization-wide commitment. It’s
everyone’s responsibility
5.
Quality
is viewed as a competitive weapon and primary growth strategy.
·
We will
exceed, not match, competitors’ quality
·
We
emphasize “continuous improvement”
6.
Quality
stresses the importance of prevention rather than correction of failure.
Sophisticated
analysis for plating, painting, powder coating and cleaning technologies is
performed in our own state-of-the-art laboratories and supplemented by outside
laboratories.
1.
Chemical
Lab – wet chemistry analysis and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
instrumentation
2.
Mechanical/Physical
testing Lab – measurement of coating thickness and other metallographical
properties are performed on our Fischerscope X-Ray 1010, Deltascope MP, Kocour
Electronic Thickness Tester and other mechanical instrumentation.
In addition we perform humidity testing, destructive testing, and visual
examination.
3.
Paint Lab
– various testing instrumentation supplemented by state-of-the-art Data Color
International Color Matching System
4.
Outside
Lab – a scanning electron microscope with energy and wavelength dispersive
spectrometers is on call for very detailing analysis.