A fuel
cell separator 60 having a
metal plate and an anticorrosion
resin coating layer 55 formed thereon is provided, with which adhesion between the
resin coating layer 55 and its counterpart member is further increased and the durability of a fuel
cell unit is improved. In forming the fuel
cell separator 60 having a separator substrate 50 that is a
metal plate and an anticorrosion
resin coating layer 55 formed thereon, the resin
coating layer 55 is formed such that it has a
surface roughness Ra of 0.5 to 13.5 μm. Increasing the
surface roughness will produce an anchoring effect, which will improve the
adhesive force at the interface. The aforementioned
surface roughness Ra can be obtained either with the use of fillers that are mixed into the resin
coating layer 55 or with external force applied to the surface of the resin
coating layer 55 by means of shot blasting, for example.