1996 (9) TMI 289

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....r the Respondents. [Order per : Jyoti Balasundaram, Member (J)]. - The appellants herein manufacture electrical contacts of various kinds and they cleared the same either with or without electroplating (silver plating). They had filed the classification list No. 15/85 in which they had claimed that electroplating on job work basis (which they do in addition to their own manufacture), was not....

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....ts. The technical literature filed by the learned DR consists of relevant extracts from the Mc Graw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, Vol. IV in which the process of Electroplating of metals has been described as a process of "electrodepositing metallic coatings to alter the existing surface properties or the dimensions of an object." "Electroplated coatings are to impart desirable ele....

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....of hydrogen at the cathode, which results in lower efficiencies as well as changes in the acidity (pH) of the plating solution. In some processes, such as chromium plating, a piece of metal which is essentially insoluble in the plating solution is the anode. When such insoluble anodes are used, metal ions in the form of soluble compounds must also be added periodically to the plated solution. The ....