1921

Dovercourts roots trace back to 1921 when Bob Edwards, the great-grandfather of the present owner formed a small plating company called Dovercourt Electro-Plating. Dovercourt began as a modest business with a staff of 4 in a 1,200 square foot facility located on Dovercourt Road in Toronto, Ontario. During the following years the company expanded many times eventually moving into larger facilities where chrome plating was introduced.

1960

Dovercourt continued to expand and eventually moved in a 20,500 foot facility employing 80 people on a full-time basis. Nickel, zinc, chrome, brass and gold plating were processed on site. The majority of the work involved the plating of parts for appliances and wire work. It was during this period of time that the automotive industry was emerging and Dovercourt began plating parts for the auto sector.

1970 - 1980

During the seventies ownership passed on to grandsons Robert and David Edwards and multiple changes. were made within the industry. A decision was made to specialize in high-volume nickel chrome plating resulting in a major retrofit to the equipment to accomode fully automated lines for high volume production. The 1980’s brought our second plant Autotek Electroplating into reality to handle the increase in the volume of the automotive work.

1990 - 2000

Business continued to grow and high environmental standards in the industry became a realty. In 1995 our 3rd facility Athena Protective Coatings opened and our 4th facility, Olympic Coaters followed soon after in 1998.

2010 - Today

The 21st millennum brought many challenges not only to our group of companies but also to the industry as a whole. To assure the market of continued exceptional service, the production operations of Athena and Dovercourt were consolidated into Autotek and Olympic. Today, our organization consists of 6 fully automated plating machines with a workforce of approximately 130 dedicated workers and is currently owned and managed by Robert P. Edwards, the forth generation.