When Harold C. Marsh founded Marsh Plating Corporation over four decades ago, it flourished based on the philosophy that we would constantly strive to supply all the needs of our customer base, while never losing track of the need to supply the Best Quality and Service at Competitive Prices.  This philosophy is still followed today by David S. Marsh and his sons Matthew and Mitchell.
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In 1959, six men, sharing 60 years of electroplating experience, decided to start their own business in Ypsilanti, Michigan.  It was a small operation based out of the old Tucker Automobile Plant, with a handful of good people and a tremendous workload.  The plant began by producing small volumes of zinc, cadmium, copper and phosphate coatings in two manually operated barrel lines.

Marsh Plating grew nearly ten fold in its first years of existence, and in the process, became one of the area's largest job shop platers.  Despite this rather impressive growth, Marsh Plating remained relatively unknown in the Southeastern Michigan market.  Capacity and product lines were added to meet customer needs, but the corporation was unable to generate the surplus capacity necessary to support additional customers.

In an attempt to address this problem, Finishing Services Inc. was founded in 1975.  Finishing Services began by producing zinc and manganese phosphate coatings as well as providing cleaning and pickling services to Marsh Plating's customer base.  Equipment was subsequently added to process copper, nickel, tin, electroless nickel, dip-spin coatings and "3M" mechanical coatings.

In the mid 1980's both Marsh Plating and Finishing Services undertook major physical plant expansions which saw them expend in excess of $3 million and add over 45,000'² to the combined facilities.  Integral with expansion was the installation at both plants of state of the art waste water treatment facilities, new dock facilities and modernized process control laboratories.

This pattern of growth and process improvements has continued right up to the present.  Since the mid 1980's, over $5 million has been expended on the modernization of existing equipment and the installation of new equipment to process electroless nickel, tin zinc, zinc cobalt and zinc nickel.  Prototyping capabilities have been added to support customer's continuous improvement activities, and a research and development program has been put in place to evaluate new coating systems.

Today, Marsh Plating and Finishing Services combine to employ over 150 people and have sales in excess of $10 million.  The two facilities measure more than 165,000'² and house 14 full automatic machines capable of producing nearly all high volume coatings.

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