By offering a checklist of six questions to ask, this section is designed to assist in identifying cleaner production opportunities at plating shops and referring customer companies to OTA for other outside resources for specific technical advise.

• What type of operations does the metal finishing shop conduct?
• What types of substrate, plating metal, and process solution are being used in these operations?
• Has the shop already looked at cleaner production technology operations?
• What types of emissions does the shop generate?
• Does the shop discharge wastewater to a sewer, a septic system, or directly to surface water?
• If the shop has a wastewater discharge permit, what toxic chemicals and metals does the permit regulate?

Sectors - Metal Finishing