Industrial Silvering

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Reflecting the Future of Silvering Technologies

Since the 1930s, Peacock Labs has been at the forefront of producing chemicals, solutions, coatings, equipment, and supplies for the manufacturing of mirrors and the metalizing of various substrates. Representative samples of solution and paint batches are carefully checked in our laboratory. This assures that the product will perform successfully for the intended purpose.

Our company is comprised of three leading manufacturing entities, each a leader in their respective fields:

Silvering for Mirrors

Since the dawn of civilization, man has attempted to create mirrors by hammering shiny metals into flat surfaces. Clearly, the need to see the world can never be fully satisfied unless we see it reflected. After all, without mirrors, how would we know what we look like?

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Permalac

Are you searching for excellent protective clear coatings? Permalac has got you covered! Unlike other protective clear coatings, Permalac can be applied over or under any other bare, treated, or patinated substrate layer. You can apply Permalac to most metal, wood, or stone surfaces, whether bare or painted.

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PChrome

From auto restoration to artists, furniture, lighting, and more, PChrome will make a chrome-like mirror surface on nearly any material. PChrome is easy to use and is applied with a spray-on system. Its durability means you can rely on the shine to last.

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A Thirst for Research

Our thirst for innovation is never satiated, and our team constantly experiments and develops new formulations. Many of our formulations were the result of customer special requests. Our customers can obtain help with procedures regarding the many phases of mirror making and metalizing through telephone calls and printed materials. We work with you to find solutions to problems and new applications for the silvering process. Since our inception in the 1930s, we have accumulated vast amounts of information on coatings of silver, gold, copper, other metals, and polymers. If you are still looking for what you need or have other questions, contact us. We will do our very best to help you.

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ALWAYS ADAPTING TO EMERGING TRENDS

Vinyl Records are Super-Popular… Again!

Electroforming, sometimes called electroplating, is the process of making a copy of the lacquer master in a fortified material that can withstand the pressures of mass replication. First, it is sprayed with a silver solution to create a copy called a mother. Next, the mother is placed in a nickel bath to create a stamper. Stampers have raised grooves used to press indentations into vinyl. A three-step process is used for larger runs to create a father, from which many mothers and stampers can be made. Depending on the number of records that need to be pressed, multiple stampers will be created. Peacock Labs is pleased to be a part of the renaissance the vinyl record industry is enjoying!

A FAVORITE OF THE ARTIST COMMUNITY AROUND THE GLOBE

“It’s not the glass that’s important, it’s what you see through it.”

Some of the most creative artists worldwide rely on Peacock Labs when they want a mirrored surface. Josiah McElheny is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects. He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He currently lives and works in New York City and his work always leaves us breathless.

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About Us

About Us: PhD chemist William Peacock founded Peacock Laboratories in the early 1930s. The company started as a manufacturer of mirrors and silvering solutions. This was back when mirrors were handmade by skilled craftsmen, rendering them both highly prized and expensive. The silver spraying technology developed by our company helped pave the path to automated mirror manufacturing in that thousands of mirrors could be produced in a day, rendering the products suddenly very inexpensive and universally available. Many years later, our company set foot into the coatings and spray-on chrome industries, introducing Permalac and PChrome. Permalac, a solvent-based clearcoat lacquer, is incredibly user-friendly yet exceptionally durable and practical. PChrome, a silver-based, spray-on-chrome suite of chemicals, is an economical and safer alternative to traditional chrome plating.

As a company, Peacock Laboratories, Inc. continues to innovate and improve our coatings, silvering solutions, and spray-on chrome solutions to deliver our best to our clients and product end-users. Quality control at our company includes checking representative samples of every solution and technical coating we produce. We aim to ensure that any product you order from us fulfills expectations and performs successfully for the intended purpose. In addition, our experience and technical knowledge of the field are on-call to help customers manufacture mirrored products efficiently, effectively, and economically. Should you have a unique application or an unusual specification to meet, count on Peacock Laboratories, Inc. to work with you to find the best way to achieve the results you envision.

Breakthroughs that break the mold

During the near-century we have been in operation we have pioneered a variety of innovative mirror and electroplating techniques. For example:

Non-Electrolytic copper backed mirrors
Galena Blue Mirrors
Conveyorized silvering systems
Double nozzle silver spray guns and instantaneous spraying methods
Specialized sensitizers to silver coat non-glass surfaces such as wax, ceramic, plastic, ink
“Sludgeless” silvering concentrates

Building on a history of discovery and invention

Over the years Peacock Labs has been awarded numerous patents for the products and processes we’ve developed. As a result of our research and development, today’s mirror manufacturers have substantially reduced manufacturing costs and virtually eliminated the problems of mirror spoilage.

Just 10 years after our company was founded, our leadership in silvering technologies made us desirable to Libby Owens Ford (LOF) and we were acquired. Several years later, Peacock became independent again, and since that time we have remained at the forefront of research and development in the fields of mirror and electroforming technologies.

Terrific support. When I needed some advice and the person I spoke with in Customer Service went well out of their way to ensure I used the products properly and got the result I wanted.

Robert R.

My art studio shop loves Peacock Labs. These are some of the easiest (and best) ways to bring metal and plastics alive.

Stephen C.

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Peacock Laboratories, Inc. 

1901 S. 54th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19143

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P: 215-729-4400/4401

F: 215-729-1380

E: sales@peacocklabs.com