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Extreme Coatings reports a strong outlook for its wear-resistant coatings as processors seek to improve efficiencies and achieve greater uptime. Extreme Coatings is a supplier of wear-resistant coating solutions for the plastics and rubber industries.
Reinvestment to Expand Global Footprint
The company cites a high level of business activity and a subsequent expanded reinvestment in personnel, technology development, and global footprint. Extreme Coatings will highlight the latest developments at the upcoming NPE 2024 exhibition at Booth #W-8089. It is scheduled from 6-10 May, 2024 in Orlando, Fla.
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The market demand for our wear-resistant coatings has continued to rise in several key applications for quite some time,” said Scott Caplan, executive vice president, Extreme Coatings. “
Processors have realized that they can’t afford downtime. So, they’re looking to our coating solutions to mitigate wear and give them the uptime they need.”
The company delivers effective, solutions-oriented approaches utilizing advanced thermal spray technologies. Extreme Coatings has developed proprietary encapsulations formulated for focused, targeted solutions to combat wear and corrosion.
The company offers its CarbideX PROLINE™ for high-performance feedscrew applications. The process encapsulates complex processing components with hard, dense tungsten carbide formulations. These components include plastic injection molding and extrusion feedscrews (single and twin-screw). It also includes continuous mixing rotors for both flight-only or full encapsulations.
Close tolerance machinery is most efficient when OEM tolerances are new, so maintaining the screw to barrel tolerance is vital to an efficient production operation.
Utilization of Advanced Thermal Spray Technology
Extreme Coatings’ thermal spray technology applies wear- and corrosion-resistant CarbideX protective coatings made of tungsten or chromium carbide to virtually any new or repaired feedscrew.
The process provides a crack- and porosity-free coating within thicknesses ranging from 0.004-in to 0.017-in per side and hardness values over 60HRc. CarbideX PROLINE™ formulations deliver like-new performance and at least two to three times longer equipment life.
The wear-resistant coating also extends screw life by three to five times. Other key benefits include increased production, less preventative maintenance, improved barrel life, and significantly reduced downtime.
Source: Extreme Coatings