New silver plating busbar line adds 4,500 tons/year of UK capacity for EV systems

New silver plating busbar line adds 4,500 tons/year of UK capacity for EV systems

Karas Plating has brought a new £1.5-million automated busbar electroplating line online in the UK, adding what the company says is the country’s widest-capacity silver-plating operation for copper busbars—components used in EV battery packs, power electronics and charging stations. The new 2.4-meter-wide line can process up to 200 kg of product every 20 minutes and adds capacity to plate an additional 4,500 tonnes of copper busbars per year, ac…