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The number of electroplating industry in West Java in Indonesia has been increasing rapidly which influences the amount of pickling and degreasing solutions usage in the washing process. Generally the electroplating industries dump their wastewater directly to environment without any treatment. The ions of metals contained in pickling and degreasing solutions shall accumulate in the environment then finally would cause eutrofication where the water body becomes rich of dissolved ion metals which effects the dissolved oxygen contained in water body. One of wastewater treatment methods is adsorption. The activated carbon of adsorbents were applied in this investigation. Electroplating wastewater was used in order to control the ions metals concentration. The objective of this experiment was to study the removal of ion metals concentration of each adsorbent filled in adsorption column by using circulation method. The column has 2.5 inch of diameter, 100 cm of height, and 100 ml/minute of flowrate. The result of investigation showed the concentration of ions metals decrease from 745 to 521 ppm, decrease pH from 8.0 to 7.2, and decrease water conductivity from 1200 to 925.