Craft Jewelry Industry

• The craft jewelry industry creates decorative items worn for personal adornment, requiring affordable, castable, and platable materials.
• Good castability, low cost, and surface finish quality (e.g., surface roughness Ra < 0.5 µm post-plating).
• Zinc alloys are widely used as a base metal for jewelry due to their affordability, castability, and ability to be plated with more precious metals.
• The jewelry sector widely uses zinc alloys to cast base components for items such as rings, earrings, and necklaces,clasps and hooks, generally produced via die-casting or gravity-casting methods.