ABOUT

The Italfimet company was founded in 1992 and specialises in the design and production of galvanic processes, offering a complete and integrated service for the high fashion, costume jewellery, and jewellery sectors. The presence of three divisions specialising in chemistry, plant engineering, and electronics enables the company to offer customised, turnkey solutions for each electroplating phase. 

The Plating Division specialises in the manufacture and distribution of chemicals for a wide range of colours, as well as state-of-the-art processes for precious electroforming. The Plants Division’s production of galvanic plants also provides the technology for recovering precious metals and developing closed-loop systems, while the galvanic process is completed by the Electro Division’s current rectifiers.

Continuous investment in R&D is aimed at improving processes, raising the value of products and providing answers to market developments and client demands, with a focus on sustainability in the sense of environmental protection, human health, and precious metal recovery.

FOCUS

A circular economy and process sustainability have become absolute priorities for companies in the jewellery, costume jewellery, and high fashion sectors. Reuse, recover, and refine are key words to pursuing closed-loop production oriented towards maximising the value of each raw material and waste reduction.

The Italfimet company has always paid special attention to the design and construction of systems for the recovery of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, or rhodium from the various stages of galvanic treatment, with tailor-made solutions to meet to the characteristics of individual companies. Electroplating implies the inevitable dispersion of precious metals in the transition between the various phases, in processing waste, and in the residues on frames and wires. The real challenge, therefore, is in recovering and reusing them. The Italfimet company’s catalogue presents systems for the complete recovery of precious metals that, together with systems for refining and creating new galvanic salts, allow them to be reintroduced into the operating and working cycle, thus concretising a true model of circular economy.