AI Visibility Index: Plating & Electroplating Services in New York

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a plating & electroplating services supplier in New York, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

234 companies tracked
Last measured September 30, 2026
Next measurement October 30, 2026

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

217 of 234

companies never appeared in a single buying question

They were asked the same 5 buying questions as everyone else in this cell and were not named once.

17 named at least once
217 never named

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Cell average: 0.24of 15
Across all 234 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 4.9of 15
The ten most visible companies in the cell.

A company's score is how many of the 15 measured answers named it.

The top ten in New York

These are the companies AI assistants named most often when New York buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.

Top 10 most AI-visible Plating & Electroplating Services companies in New York, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Vernon Plating Works Inc. 7 employeesQueens, New York	Queens, New York	12 of 15 answers
2	Keystone Corporation 14 employeesBuffalo, New York	Buffalo, New York	9 of 15 answers
3	Precious Plate, Inc. Niagara Falls, New York 2 name variants Precious Plate, Inc.most common7 Precious Plate1	Niagara Falls, New York	8 of 15 answers
4	Rochester Overnight Plating 60 employeesRochester, New York	Rochester, New York	5 of 15 answers
5	Industrial Metal Finishing 8 employeesJamestown, New York 2 name variants Industrial Metal Finishing, Inc.most common2 Industrial Metal Finishing1	Jamestown, New York	3 of 15 answers
6	Nassau Chromium Plating Co Mineola, New York	Mineola, New York	3 of 15 answers
7	T & M Plating 30 employeesNew York, New York 2 name variants T & M Platingmost common2 T&M Plating, Inc.1	New York, New York	3 of 15 answers
8	Coating Technology Inc 30 employeesRochester, New York	Rochester, New York	2 of 15 answers
9	GunBlack, Inc. 8 employeesInterlaken, New York	Interlaken, New York	2 of 15 answers
10	Surface Finish Technologies 15 employeesElmira, New York	Elmira, New York	2 of 15 answers

15 more companies were named at least once. Companies outside the top ten are counted in the averages but not named here.

Also named, based in another state

AI assistants named these companies too, but MacRAE'S lists them in a different state, not New York. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
BFG Manufacturing – ZincPlating.com	Pennsylvania	2 of 15
J G W Industries	New Jersey	2 of 15
G&A Plating Company	Rhode Island	1 of 15
Great Lakes Metal Finishing, Inc.	Pennsylvania	1 of 15
New Brunswick Plating	New Jersey	1 of 15
Paramount Metal Finishing	New Jersey	1 of 15

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The five questions we asked

Every company in this cell is measured on the same questions, written the way a buyer would type them. That is what makes the ranking a comparison rather than a collection of anecdotes.

1“Best plating and electroplating services companies in New York”
2“Who supplies precision gold electroplating services for electronic contacts in New York”
3“I need a New York plating partner for a 25,000 piece zinc-nickel corrosion-resistant fastener run, who should I talk to”
4“Top plating and electroplating services suppliers in New York for industrial OEM buyers”
5“Which New York plating shops can handle rack and barrel electroplating on high-volume small parts”
6“List 20 plating and electroplating services companies in New York with their specialties.”the roster question

Each question is asked more than once, which is why a company's score is out of 15 answers rather than out of the number of questions.

Where AI drew its answers from

These are the sources the answers in this cell leaned on most, ranked by how many of the named companies each one stands behind.

jgwindustrie.com
2 companies
preciousplate.com
2 companies
valencesurfacetech.com
2 companies
naicslist.com
2 companies
precisionprocess.com
2 companies
tandmplating.com
2 companies
rochesterovernightplating.com
1 company
keyfinishing.com
1 company
aerospacemetalsllc.com
1 company
anoplate.com
1 company
avmplating.com
1 company
carltoncooke.com
1 company

42 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 36 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

New York in context

New York ranks 20th of 21 measured states in this category. Each bar is the share of that state's tracked companies that AI assistants named at least once; across every measured state in this category the share is 11%.

New York (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (11%)

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