Profile: S.W.S Metal Treatments Limited specializes in providing hard chrome, electroless nickel, copper, and zinc plating services. We also offer precision grinding, polishing, blasting, and heat treatment services. Hard chrome plate provides the benefits of increased wear and abrasion resistance, together with low friction properties and hardness of deposit of around 1,000 Vickers. The range of deposit thickness on our hard chrome varies from flash coatings of around 7.5 to 25 microns, to heavy hard chrome deposits of up to 750 microns. These heavier hard chrome deposits usually require grinding and polishing after plating to maintain tolerances and surface finish profile.