BSTSA launches informative drive for designers and specifiers

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(1999), "BSTSA launches informative drive for designers and specifiers", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 46 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/acmm.1999.12846eab.036

BSTSA launches informative drive for designers and specifiers

Keywords BSTSA, Publications, Surface coatings

Cost-effective, informative and targeted information on surface coatings is the aim behind the publication of three new brochures by the British Surface Treatment Suppliers Association (BSTSA) launched at a two-day surface engineering seminar.

The full colour brochures: Hard Chromium, Electroless Nickel and Electroplated Plastic Components, are the start of the BSTSA's initiative to encourage effective professional education and higher standards of quality among specifiers, designers and buyers. Each booklet covers a description of the basic process and examples of the wide range of relevant applications.

Deposit properties are also described, as well as environmental factors. Readers can contact the BSTSA either by phone, fax, email or the Internet for additional information.

BSTSA chief executive, John Allwood, told delegates:

Primary decision makers require concise, attractively presented, product-orientated information and we are providing this. The three new brochures are only the start of our campaign to bring key information to the market by covering a broad range of surface engineering coatings with these quick, easy-reference guides.

As part of their campaign, the BSTSA is building a new technology area on their Web site with links to equipment and materials suppliers, plus industry partners including the Surface Engineering Association, Nickel Development Institute and Institute of Metal Finishing. Major international collaboration is taking place between the UK, USA and Germany to promote the industry through additional electronic publishing materials.

The two-day seminar, organised jointly by NiDI and the IMF and very well attended by suppliers and end users, addressed the future for "Electroless nickel coatings" and the increasing use of "Decorative plating on plastics". Since both subjects are covered by the new brochures it was considered an ideal launch platform for the start of the BSTSA campaign.

Copies of the brochures are available from the Surface Engineering Association. Tel: +44 (0)121 237 1122; Fax: +44 (0)121 237 1124.