Wear-resistant coatings for greater efficiency at NPE 2024

Extreme Coatings reports a strong outlook for its wear-resistant coatings as processors seek to improve efficiencies and achieve greater uptime. The company cites a high level of business activity and a subsequent expanded reinvestment in personnel, technology developmnent, and global footprint. Extreme Coatings will highlight the latest developments at the upcoming NPE 2024 exhibition (Booth W-8089) which runs May 6-10 in Orlando, Florida. 

‘‘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.”

Extreme Coatings has become the global leader for wear-resistant coating solutions in the plastics and rubber industry. With more than 85,000 encapsulated feedscrews over the past 25 years, the company offers 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.

With years of experience in material science and practical applications, 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), and 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.

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 .004-in to .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.