Palm International, Inc. is a multifaceted company engaged in nickel and rare earth chemical manufacture. The company is active in the metal finishing industry, but also supplies products for the catalyst, battery, electronics and porcelain industries.

    Palm is the largest manufacturer of Electroless Nickel grade, liquid nickel sulfate in the USA. Palm's liquid nickel sulfate is the purest available, and has become the industry's standard for electroless nickelmanufacture, especially for high tech applications, such as magnetic memory discs. Palm also manufactures high purity, liquid nickel chloride and sulfamate and other nickel and cobalt chemicals. These are used extensively for electroplating and other applications.

    Palm also manufactures rare earth (lanthanide) chemicals. Individual and mixed rare earth oxides and carbonates, from various basic suppliers in China and the USA, are used to produce specialty salts and solutions for many applications, including catalysts, electronics, adhesives and automotive.

    Palm distributes dry nickel and cobalt salts (including sulfate, chloride, sulfamate, carbonate and acetate) manufactured by the OM Group in Finland and is the largest importer of these chemicals for metal finishing in the country. Palm is also the largest distributor of sodium hypophosphite in the USA. This compound is manufactured by Rhodia and is used extensively for electroless nickel plating. Palm also distributes nickel, copper, zinc, tin and other anodes for electrolytic plating, as well as cleaners and other chemicals.

    In addition, Palm manufactures plating systems, tanks, filtration equipment, heat exchangers and other equipment for electroless and electrolytic plating. Its ENtank and ENstat electroless nickel plating systems are recognized as state-of-the-art by the industry, and are recommended or distributed by most chemical suppliers. Palm's Instrument Division also manufactures sophisticated automatic process control systems for electroless plating processes, cleaners and other plating processes.

    The company is very technically oriented and strives to stay in the forefront of new technology for metal finishing and especially electroless plating. The staff is a diverse group with areas of expertise in chemistry, electronics, metallurgy and plating. By combining these technologies, they often develop unique solutions to difficult problems.

    The combined sales of Palm International have grown from $25 Million in 1997 to over $45 Million in 2003.