- Quality Plating, a Salt Lake City business since 1955, will close in March.
- Founded by Walther Fassmann, the company survived Nazi Germany and Soviet control.
- Owner Glenn Fassmann cited land value and family careers as reasons for the closure.
SALT LAKE CITY — In little more than a month, Quality Plating, a west side Salt Lake business that over the past 71 years has attached metal plating to just about anything — from bronzing Gene Fullmer’s boxing gloves to applying gold siding to the space shuttle — will be closing its doors.
The vats, bins, machinery and forklifts left in the 30,000-square-foot plant will be sold to the highest bidder, making way for whatever developer acquires the 2¾ acres the business occupies — so it can all be torn down to make way for more apartments in a city that needs a lot of them.
There will be no brass band, no fanfare. At the end of March, owner Glenn Fassmann will simply lock the front door and drive onto 600 West for the last time.
But he will be loaded down with memories…