Chrome plating is hardly a matter of dipping a bumper into a tank filled with chemicals. It is a long, involved process that often starts with polishing and buffing, cleaning and acid dipping.

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 could ban chrome plating commonly used to restore classic cars and provide protective coating for industrial parts. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) For decades, hexavalent chromium has ...

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 ...

Chrome is beautiful, but it doesn't begin that way. Simply put, a lengthy preparation procedure combined with an artist's appreciation of the process is necessary to achieve pretty parts. That's what ...

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 ...

Stellantis plans to no longer offer chrome in vehicles due to health and environmental risks, CNN reports. Chromium-6, used in chrome plating, can potentially cause cancer to workers who face exposure ...

Since 1986, California has classified hexavalent chrome as a toxic air contaminant to which there is no safe level of exposure. Despite that, it remains the ingredient used in chrome plating, but ...

The open hood of a Chevrolet Impala reveals a chrome-plated engine compartment at a Long Beach metal plating shop. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the ...