Hardide coatings provide excellent protection in demanding high-end precision engineering and industrial applications.
The chemical vapour deposition (CVD) process facilitates a uniform and conformal Hardide coating with a homogenous nanostructure that is perfectly suited to precision engineered components. The combination of high hardness with excellent toughness and ductility provides impressive wear resistance, meaning a 50 micron thick Hardide coating can achieve superior performance to much thicker layers of other hard coatings.
Ultra-low temperature variants of our coatings, Hardide-LT and Hardide-LA, have been specially developed for coating grades of steel and alloys whose mechanical properties may be sensitive to the typical process temperature of 460° – 520°C / 860° – 968°F. Hardide-LT and Hardide-LA are produced at a significantly lower temperature, below 370°C / 698°F, enabling a wider scope of precision applications.
Our coatings are proven to provide component life-extending properties for speciality material processing applications where resistance to wear or galling is vital, such as areas working against elastomeric seals, moulds for forming ceramics and plastics, powder metallurgy forming tools and complex IGT components.
PRECISION ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Hardide coatings provide superior protection for many precision engineering applications including:
Airport X-ray screening machine components
Complex 3D printed components
Construction equipment high-wear parts
Helicoil inserts
High pressure cylinder adaptors
Hydraulic cylinders and pistons
Hydraulic manifold blocks
IGT & Steam turbine compressor blades
Injection tooling
Linear motor drive screws
Motorsport components
Plastics extrusion feeder screws and die plates
Satellite protection systems
Seal sleeves
Silicon wafer production
Textile feed mechanisms
Transmission components
