The surface-finishing industry is a chemical-intensive industry. A special category of chemical processes, characterized primarily as electrochemical processes, are used to treat and conditions, or "finish," the surfaces o f a variety of manufactured goods and components to either enhance visual appeal, improve corrosion resistance, or to increase product durability or serviceability. Some providers of finishing services, and most manufacturers with in-house finishing Operations, are understandably inclined to view themselves as purveyors of finishing services For the end products that they process or as producers of the products that are manufactured, Rather than as operators of chemical plant and chemical producing processes.
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