Chrome Plating since 1961
Tru Coat Plating was founded in 1961 by Carmine Neal Mazzone, Frank Mazzone, and Carmine's wife, Elaine. The first shop was located at 3811 Lake St, Stone Park, IL. In 1966, it was moved to its current location at 130 Mannheim Rd, Bellwood, IL. Tru Coat has always been a family-run, family-owned business since its inception. Carmine’s sons Neal and Rick started working at Tru Coat Plating in the late 1960s to help with the growing business. After Frank’s passing in 1974 and Carmine’s in 1980, Neal and Rick took over the plating business and never looked back. Under their leadership, Tru Coat Plating expanded to 7 chrome tanks and a workforce of around 20 employees. Production of chrome plating of large and small runs started becoming more of an everyday production. Pivot Pins, Planting Fingers, and Drive Pins have been chrome in runs of 100s and 1000s on a daily basis for the last 20+ years. Rick passed in 2012, and Neal started thinking about selling the business shortly after. After a health scare in 2016 and much discussion with his wife Linda and sister Susan, who both were very involved in Tru Coat’s day-to-day activities, in 2018, Neal began actively to sell Tru Coat Plating. A couple of deals never came to fruition, and in 2022, Tru Coat Plating was purchased by two cousins, Manny and Raul Calvillo. Already being the owners of Mexicali Hard Chrome, founded in 1989, they already had over 20+ years of experience in hard chrome plating. The transition was seamless, and the Mazzone family was at ease knowing that the values that helped them grow Tru Coat Plating were the values that the Calvillo family also stands for in their operations. Tru Coat Plating is dedicated to serving its customers with quality and reliable service as it has since 1961. We currently have 14,000 SQFT, 7 chrome plating tanks, polishers, and centerless grinders, and we are open 24 hours a day to provide the best and most complete plating service in the Chicagoland area. With Mexicali Hard Chrome able to handle parts up to 10 tons in weight and Tru Coat Plating having the capability to chrome plate thousands of parts in 1 run, there is literally no job we can’t do. Manny and Raul look forward to continuing the reputation that their fathers and the Mazzone family worked so hard to be known for.
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