When Stephen Rudy CEF was getting close to retirement several years ago, he began wondering what he would do to keep himself busy.

“I asked myself about nine months before I retired, ‘What are you going to do with your time?’” says Rudy, who started his own company, Chem Analytic, which offers wet analysis of metal finishing solutions, hull cell plating test and evaluation, and training services for the plating industry.

With a 40+ year career in the finishing industry, Rudy has seen — and solved — many issues that occur in plating operations,