Founded in 1986, AlaCote Corporation is one of the leading companies in hard and nickel chrome plating and finishing for long cylindrical steel parts in the Southeast United States. It utilizes steel rollers and hydraulic cylinder tube shafts and rods. The company offers electroplating solutions for marine and chemical applications. AlaCote Corporation has in-house grinding and finishing capabilities. It also provides flame-sprayed coatings, such as tungsten-carbide, titanium dioxide, stainless steel, copper, and aluminum and chromium oxide. The company offers the UltraWearGuard hard chrome plating system, which is useful for hydraulic cylinder piston rods and steel printing and paper rolls. It serves the plating, lumber, mining, textile, mining, laminating, printing, chemical, marine and hydraulics industries.