Advanced Plating Technologies is an industry leading gold plating company in functional gold services to MIL-G-45204, ASTM B488 or AMS 2422. Since 1987 expertise in providing precision barrel, rack and vibratory gold plating is currently employed in numerous industries including the medical, telecommunications, aerospace and electronics industries.

Gold has excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, offers exceptional solderability and is a superb reflector of infrared radiation. In addition, gold is a noble metal that does not oxidize or chemically react under normal conditions. For this reason, gold is an exceptional choice for numerous engineering requirements where electrical conductivity (especially at low voltages), solderability and corrosion resistance are design requirements.

Soft gold is commonly used where the highest of gold purity is required for soldering, wire bonding, high temperature or high corrosion resistance applications. The soft layer of gold plating deposit provides an extremely pure deposit of gold, which maintains the low hardness, and high corrosion resistance of gold consistent with its elemental form. Soft gold is preferred for high temperature applications due to the fact that alloying elements of hard gold can oxidize at elevated temperatures.