Modernize. Optimize. Expand.
Ronatec helps plating operations improve aging infrastructure, increase process performance, and add production capacity without losing sight of safety, maintainability, compliance, or long-term operating cost.
Make the right capital decision before committing to the largest one.
A plating shop can outgrow its original layout long before every component reaches the end of its useful life. Ronatec evaluates the complete operating environment to determine where modernization, optimization, or expansion can produce the greatest practical return.
- Improve production reliability and reduce avoidable downtime.
- Address obsolete equipment, controls, and hard-to-source components.
- Increase throughput without automatically replacing the full process line.
- Integrate new chemistry, automation, ventilation, or wastewater requirements.
- Prepare the facility for future demand, audits, and customer expectations.
One facility. Different needs. A coordinated approach.
These services can stand alone or be combined into a phased improvement plan built around your production schedule, available footprint, and capital priorities.
Plating Shop Modernization
Renew aging infrastructure and improve reliability without replacing more than the operation requires.
- Tank and process line retrofits
- PLC and control-system modernization
- Ventilation and exhaust upgrades
- Filtration, heating, and pumping improvements
- Safety and maintenance-access improvements
- Replacement of obsolete components
Plating Shop Optimization
Get more consistent performance, throughput, and operating value from the equipment already in place.
- Process bottleneck identification
- Cycle-time and workflow improvements
- Temperature and solution-control stability
- Chemical feed and filtration optimization
- Water, energy, and maintenance reduction
- Improved operator visibility and control
Upgrading & Expansion
Add capability and capacity while integrating new equipment with the facility systems already supporting production.
- Additional tanks and process stages
- New chemistries and finishing capabilities
- Automation and material-handling upgrades
- Ventilation and utility expansion
- Wastewater treatment integration
- New process lines and production cells
Projects usually begin with an operating problem—not an equipment specification.
“Our line is becoming unreliable.”
We evaluate the failure points, controls, plumbing, heating, filtration, ventilation, and structural condition to determine what should be repaired, upgraded, or replaced.
“We need more throughput.”
We look at cycle time, tank utilization, material flow, process sequencing, hoist capacity, operator movement, and utility constraints before recommending added equipment.
“We are adding a new process.”
Ronatec can integrate new tanks, chemistry, controls, ventilation, heating, filtration, and wastewater requirements into the current facility.
“Our controls are obsolete.”
We modernize PLCs, HMIs, instrumentation, alarms, process monitoring, and control architecture while preserving practical operator usability and maintainability.
We look beyond the tank line.
Plating performance depends on the interaction between process equipment, controls, ventilation, utilities, maintenance practices, operator workflow, and future production requirements.
The project stays coordinated because the systems are considered together.
Ronatec brings process-equipment knowledge together with the supporting systems required to make a plating operation safe, reliable, serviceable, and productive.
Process Tanks & Linings
New tanks, replacements, modifications, leak containment, and material selection.
Piping & Fluid Handling
Pumps, valves, filtration loops, chemical feed, recirculation, and service access.
Ventilation Systems
Tank hoods, ductwork, fans, capture design, airflow coordination, and upgrades.
Heating & Temperature Control
Heating systems, sensors, controls, verification, and tighter process stability.
Automation & Controls
PLC, HMI, instrumentation, alarms, data visibility, and automated process functions.
Wastewater & Water Management
Rinse-water strategy, treatment integration, recycling, flow control, and expansion.
Platforms & Structural Support
Walkways, service platforms, steel support, equipment access, and facility integration.
Maintenance & Repair
Tank repair, rectifier support, controls troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and retrofits.
New Process Lines
Complete design and build support when modernization alone cannot meet production goals.
Modernization should improve visibility—not make the line harder to operate.
Ronatec designs controls around the realities of the shop floor. The goal is dependable operation, clear status information, serviceable components, and enough control to improve consistency without creating unnecessary complexity.
- Replace obsolete PLC and HMI hardware.
- Add monitoring for temperature, level, pumps, filtration, and alarms.
- Improve recipe management and process repeatability.
- Create a practical path toward future automation.
A practical path from operating problem to implemented solution.
Understand
Define production goals, current issues, constraints, and what success needs to look like.
Evaluate
Review equipment, controls, ventilation, utilities, workflow, maintenance, and available space.
Prioritize
Separate immediate risks from performance improvements and longer-term expansion opportunities.
Implement
Engineer and execute the right combination of repairs, upgrades, retrofits, or new equipment.
We are not limited to one answer.
Ronatec supports chemical processes, equipment, controls, ventilation, maintenance, and full line construction. That broader operating perspective helps us recommend the right level of intervention instead of forcing every problem into a new-equipment sale.
“Sometimes the right answer is a repair. Sometimes it is a retrofit. Sometimes it is a phased expansion. And sometimes the operation truly needs a new line.”
Our job is to help you understand the difference before capital is committed.
Planning to modernize, optimize, upgrade, or expand your plating operation?
Tell us what is changing in your facility, where production is being constrained, or which equipment is creating risk. Ronatec can help define the most practical next step.