Plating Tanks, Plating Barrels, Buffing & Lapping Compounds - The Stutz Co. Stutz Company, Plating Equipment, Buffing, Polishing Compounds, Lapping compounds, Grit-o’cobs, corncob granules, plating process, Chicago, IL, Cadmium Plating Process, Chromium Plating, Copper plating, copper alloy, zinc plating, silver plating, cyanide The Stutz Company has been a distributor of plating processes, chemicals and equipment for the electroplating industry for over 88 years and we provide chemistry, equipment and methods which employ resource recovery and waste minimization.