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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The open hood of a Chevrolet Impala reveals a chrome-plated engine compartment at a Long Beach metal plating shop. (Luis Sinco / ...

The European Union (EU) has recently proposed a plan to ban the use of chrome plating materials from 2024. According to the EU, this proposal is necessary because of health reasons. The ban is ...

The understanding of chromium, and the processes that allow for the chrome plating on our cars, are relatively recent developments. Chromium minerals had been used in various paints in 18th-century ...

(CNN) — Chrome’s century-long reign as that added bit of flash and glamour on new cars may be coming to an end. For least one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are ...

Classic car owners in Europe might want to start stockpiling bumpers grilles, hubcaps, wire wheels and exhaust tailpipe finishers. Why? Because if the EU gets its way the chrome that gives each their ...

Hard chrome plating has been a reliable industry solution for erosion, wear, corrosion resistance and dimensional reclamation for several years. It can be applied at a practical cost per unit of ...

Southern California has the nation’s highest concentration of chrome platers, the metal shops that dip car bumpers, plumbing fixtures, airplane parts and other products in large industrial tanks to ...

California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the use of a highly toxic metal for restoring classic car parts, protecting aviation components and producing a lustrous metallic finish for a variety ...