Profile: Luxury Wheels O. E. Plating, Inc specializes in chrome plating. Our plating process is recreated in the laboratory where chemical levels are monitored. Electroplating is a method of coating a metal or plastic surface with a metal. This electroplater applies an electroplate of copper, then a nickel electroplate, then chromium three deposits over one another. One of the first steps in preparing an aluminum wheel for the plating tanks is to strip all remaining paint off the original equipment wheel.