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gold plating

Including unnecessarily expensive items in a construction or renovation project to justify a large budget or a substantial rent increase.

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That's why we have decided to offer high quality gold plating at an affordable price.
DrGoldPlate.com Plates Apple Watches in 24 Karat Gold
As a substitute for gold plating solution that is currently widely used in mass production, precious metals costs can be reduced by approximately 90% and abrasion resistance can be greatly improved due to hardness being increased up to 6 times.
Palladium Alloy Plating Solution is Able to Mass-Produce Electrical Contacts as a Substitute for Gold; Tanaka Precious Metals Begins to Provide on November 9
Abdul-Razaq al-Fattal, who supervises gold plating of in the city of Samara, 110 kilometers (about 68 miles) north of Baghdad, said they are now covering the walls of buildings and rooms with green marble.
Iraqis cover shrines in gold for divine forgiveness
Stu Hughes and wife Katherine's Goldstriker company is famous for gold plating almost anything, from a mobile phone to his and hers X-Type and S-Type Jaguar cars.
Golden pair have the Midas touch in business
Rehabilitation should wear gold plating specialized labor.
Furniture restoration service
The court felt that gold plating would damage the inscriptions and images of gods and goddesses on the temple walls which have been there since the Vijayanagara period.
QUITE A HOLY CONFUSION
But he eventually built his own bike 19 years later, after discovering an American company selling gold plating kits.
KING OF BLING; Midas touch boss turns Jags to gold
IC Interconnect provides wafer bumping services and electroless nickel and immersion gold plating and pad resurfacing for semiconductor devices.
IC Interconnect Announces New Wire-Bonding Process for High-Temperature Applications; Electroless Ni/Immersion Au Process Receives Positive Customer Reviews as a Wire Bond Surface after Rigorous Testing
The TTD could also have pulled off the gold plating all by itself, considering its phenomenal wealth.
India's richest shrine set for a golden makeover
The company specializes in wafer bumping services and electroless nickel and immersion gold plating and pad resurfacing for semiconductor devices.
IC Interconnect Announces New Back-End Capabilities; Test, Laser Marking, Singulation and Tape-and-Reel Services Offer Customers Turn-Key Solutions
Additionally, the gold plating process has been optimized to provide superior wirebonding and die-attach for both eutectic and preform applications.
Brush Wellman Expands Copper CuPack Product Line With Higher Power Packages
21, 1995--Berg Electronics is pleased to announce that the FCC has issued a public notice stating that Berg's 30 micro inches of GXT(TM) ("Better-than-Gold") plating meets the same requirements as the industry's standard 50 micro inch gold plating normally used in the manufacture of standard plugs and jacks.
Berg Electronics' GXT(TM) plating certified by FCC as equivalent to industry's standard 50 micro inch gold
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