ChemPlate Industries

Chem-Plate Industries is an Elk Grove Village, Illinois, metal finishing firm that has served clients spanning diverse sectors and locations for 35 years. The company’s services encompass heat treating, electroplating, mechanical plating, and dip-spin painting. Chem-Plate Industries has partnered with a number of prominent companies, including its affiliate Straus Chemical Corporation, in achieving leadership in the technology-driven automotive process fasteners market. Its metal finishing solutions not only fulfill decorative purposes, but also provide superior protection against corrosion.

With experience as a plater with American Electroplating Company extending to his high school years and undergraduate career at Northeastern University in Boston, Martin Straus established his current firm in 1978. He initially focused on the barrel zinc plating of heat-treated fasteners that were challenging to plate-utilizing conventional technologies. Beginning with six employees in a South Side Chicago location, Martin Straus has grown the company over the years to encompass three buildings and more than 300 staff members. He has been assisted by his son Aaron Straus, who is currently Chem-Plate Industries general manager, for the past seven years.