The badge of a customized Chevrolet Impala at a metal plating shop in Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Southern California has the nation’s highest concentration of chrome platers, the ...

The open hood of a Chevrolet Impala reveals a chrome-plated engine compartment at a Long Beach metal plating shop. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the ...

California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the use of a highly toxic metal for restoring classic car parts, protecting aviation components and producing a lustrous metallic finish for a variety ...

Southern California has the nation’s highest concentration of chrome platers, the metal shops that dip car bumpers, plumbing fixtures, airplane parts and other products in large industrial tanks to ...

Chrome’s century-long reign as that added bit of flash and glamour on new cars may be coming to an end. For least one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its ...

For decades, hexavalent chromium has provided the silvery showroom finish to countless consumer products, from automobile bumpers and grilles to kitchen faucets and light fixtures. It has also served ...

Since 1986, California has classified hexavalent chrome as a toxic air contaminant to which there is no safe level of exposure. Despite that, it remains the ingredient used in chrome plating, but ...

(CNN) — Chrome’s century-long reign as that added bit of flash and glamour on new cars may be coming to an end. For least one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are ...

The fenced off abandoned Chrome Platers building at the eastern end of North St, Timaru. Photo taken April, 2022.JOHN BISSET / Stuff A lack of funding is holding up remediation of the site dubbed New ...

Chrome has been inseparable with the image of a classic car. The chrome represented success, longevity and glitziness, with ...