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Best-in-class Aluminum Bus Bar Plating with Tin in Houston, TX

S+S Industries offers the highest bus bar plating capacity in the world. Our proprietary tin-on-aluminum Hyper Plate process provides consistent quality and fast plating,

From smart cities to clean energy, the electrification of the world is surging at an ever-growing pace. With unmatched capacity for finishing one of the vital components of power distribution systems–the bus bar–S+S Industries stands ready to meet the toughest demands of the power industry.

For the increasingly popular aluminum bus bar, there’s our newest process: Hyper Plate, industry-leading plating with tin.

Whatever bus bar base material you use, S+S has you covered.

Hyper Plate: Our Unique Tin-on-aluminum Process

S+S is proud to offer aluminum bus bar plating with both silver and tin. Hyper Plate is our proprietary, automated tin on aluminum process for consistent quality and fast plating.

Whether your bars are full-length or fabricated, we can store them, plate them to your exact specifications with tight tolerances, and get them where they need to go, whenever you give the word.

A proprietary, automated pre-treatment process for superior adhesion

Consistent quality

No rack marks on bars

Extremely fast plating

How it works


After you buy your bare copper or aluminum bars from the mill, ship them directly to us; there’s no need for you to take possession yet.

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We warehouse the bars inside our massive storage facility–we can store as little as 10,000 pounds or as much as 500,000 for you. We use a live, interactive inventory database so that anyone at your company can log on and see the volume of bare bars you have stored at our facility at any given time.

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When you’re nearly ready to use them, place your order with us, and we plate with your desired material.

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We ship the finished bus bars to you within four days at the most, whether they’re 1 inch or 8 inches wide.

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The Benefits of S+S


Just-in-time shipping

Overhead cost savings

Optimal commodity pricing timing

Extensive storage capacity with easily searched online inventory tracking

Tin plating:
Using the best plating material for your application​

Tin plating

  • Enhanced protection against corrosion

  • Good choice for non-sliding and non-rotating applications

  • Maintains conductivity over time

  • Softer and higher resistance than silver

  • Not well-suited for use in primary disconnects or moving switch blades

Get the plating protection you need today


Get in touch with us today to hear how a layer of S+S could make a world of difference for your components’ lifespan and performance.