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INTERVIEW| THOMAS A TANURY Gold plating the dream An interview with Thomas A Tanury, Chairman, Tanury Industries 32 International | Autumn 2015
THOMAS A TANURY| INTERVIEW Thomas A Tanury T anury Industries specialises in high-end metal fi nishings. If you happen to be lucky enough to travel in a BBJ with gold-plated taps and a golden basin, it is highly likely that you are admiring just a few of the thousands of items that Tanury Industries has produced for private jets. Thomas Tanury, the current owner and Chairman of the company, took over the family jewellery electro-plating business in the early 1970s. The fi rm was started by his father and uncles almost 70 years ago. As a family fi rm the company had an excellent reputation in the jewellery trade but once Thomas had acquired sole control of the business, having bought out his uncles by the start of the 1980s, he looked for ways of taking the fi rm’s electro-plating skills into new markets. This strategy has proved hugely successful and since 1999 Tanury Industries has had a thriving line of business focused on the major business jet completions centres and other business markets. “We now provide electro-plating to about 20 different industries, with a particular focus on very high-end, high-quality precious metal fi nishing in gold, silver and platinum,” he explains. Moving into the VVIP completions market brought a whole range of new challenges, not least in terms of the different scale involved in some of the objects the company was asked to gold plate. Also, Tanury provides a much heavier hard gold plating than its competitors, at no additional charge. “We were accustomed to fi nishing a wide range of products, from bathroom fi ttings to lighting fi xtures, but when we became involved with business jets we found we were being asked to plate much larger items. For example, relatively recently we were asked to produce a 24-karat gold-plated stair rail for a 747. The rail itself was 14 feet long. So we have developed the facilities and techniques required to plate very large items and that has given the designers we work with a lot more scope to produce imaginative, luxurious and strikingly elegant interiors,” he comments. The process of electro-plating items for aircraft is not straightforward. The weight constraints on aircraft mean that the parts that have to be plated are very often made of aluminum rather than steel or brass. “We take the aluminium and we give it a very high polish. We then do a zinc coating that metalises the aluminum and prepares the part for electroplating. Then, over the zinc coat we lay a copper plate coat and we repolish that. Then we repeat the process with another layer of copper and typically a layer of nickel after that. The nickel gives it a nice, bright, hard, shiny fi nish. And only after that do you go for the fi nal coat, whatever that may be. It might be champagne gold, silver or something else, depending on the designer’s wishes,” Tanury explains. At the end of the process the plated part is of the highest quality possible and ideal for installation in a VVIP completion. A gold part would generally be fi nished with a clear coat to give it scratch and wear resistance. Ever since Tanury Industries entered the business aviation market, demand has been steady and has been helped by the fact that the company has been chosen as an OEM supplier to several major companies. Some of the projects Tanury gets involved with are enormous in scope. “We have just Autumn 2015 | International 33
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