In the mid 1980s, Don Meth started metal finishing at advanced Electroplating in South Park. He had learned his trade from the TOP Metal Finishers in the Industry.

He started with one machine and a couple of friends to help out in a one car garage in the Rainier valley area. The business grew quickly as word spread about the high level of workmanship they produced and the company was soon relocated to a larger building in South Park. As the contracts came in from larger companies, it was not long til they had to move once more into a hangar on the north end of Boeing Field in the Georgetown industrial area. In January of 2010 we had again grown out of our building and moved back into the original Advanced Electroplating building South Park. We've taken over another portion of the building and are adding a showroom and restoration shop.

2008 marked the 20th year that Show Quality has been in business. American Plating was opened in 2006 to help maintain the level of quality throughout the plating process that our customers had come to expect. We now do all our own work in house to insure show quality metal finishing and plating is accomplished.