Crista Chemical Company LLC’s (3C) goal was to develop a novel, low-cost, industrial method of plating titanium on metallic and nonmetallic materials. Crista Chemical Company achieved this goal by developing an innovative technology of titanium electroplating and receiving a patent for the achievement U.S. Patent No. 9,023,187, and soon to be published ASTM B999-15.  The innovation was ground breaking as before the discovery, titanium electroplating was considered impossible.

Crista Chemical Company’s revolutionary innovation electrodeposits coatings of Titanium and Titanium-zirconium alloys on conductive and non-conductive substrates coated with low, medium, or high phosphate electroless nickel. Two methods of titanium deposition were designed and optimized. One was a conventional electroplating method—which used constant current—and another one was a nanocrystalline electrodeposition (we refer to as the “turbo method”), which uses pulse plating. In both methods electrodeposition of the titanium alloys proceeded from the sulfuric acid solution.

The advantages of the method of plating titanium include a) low cost, b) relatively low number of process steps, thus posing minimal effect on the environment (safer and zero discharge process) and c) very broad application.  Moreover,  Produced materials are characterized by a) light weight, b) high corrosion resistance c) high yield strength, d) wear resistance, e) high resilience, stiffness at room temperature as well as at elevated temperature (e.g. up to 200C). This makes the titanium coating an attractive technology for a variety of industries including: high efficiency batteries, medical applications, biotechnology, aerospace, defense, sports and automotive.