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Why Choose Longevity Coatings for Your
Next Coatings Project?
At Longevity Coatings, we pride ourselves on our in-depth knowledge, our long experience and our innovative uses of new technology, all of which come together in meeting your particular coating challenge.
The Consultation
Longevity Coatings is dedicated to providing the highest quality service to our customers. The starting point for achieving that goal is an up-front consultation with one of our coatings professionals. Longevity engineering consultants will assess your needs and its unique challenges; we will then recommend the material, the process and the process parameters that will get the job done efficiently and cost effectively.
The
Processes
Drawing on our lengthy experience in the
field, we have designed our own coatings application equipment. This innovative equipment incorporates advanced digital motion control technology with modern thermal spray technologies to produce the most consistent coating in the industry today. We have brought mass production technology into a job shop environment and, as such, are able to spray a wide range of short or long run jobs.
Although computer-controlled processes are common in large manufacturing plants, it is rarely found at the job shop level; in effect, we have brought mass production technology into a job shop environment. We are able to spray a wide range of short run jobs. involving inside diameters, outside diameters and complex shapes.
Our computer-programmed spray equipment allows us to apply coatings to carefully defined areas of the substrate. we can precision spray inside diameters, outside diameters and complex shapes alike. When wear resistance is the chief objective, a thermal coating can be directed and applied only to those surfaces subject to wear. The cost of coating an entire component is thus eliminated.
We employ a variety of
thermal spray coatings processes, including:
HVOF (High Velocity Oxygen Fuel);
Plasma coatings (Non-transferred arc);
Twin Arc and combustion flame spraying; and
fused coatings.
The Coating Materials and exotic substrates
Not all coatings materials are
created equally. Some of the earth's most exotic
alloys-- for example, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Chrome Carbide, etc.-
have unusual properties which must be taken into
consideration. Most of these advanced coating materials
are costly and difficult to handle; for this
reason, not all coatings companies are willing or able
to apply them.
Tungsten carbide is another example. Unformed tungsten carbide from two different suppliers may have the same composition, but may have different properties-- depending on the process used to produce the raw material. To ensure quality, uniformity and product consistency, we require suppliers of our ceramics and tungsten carbide raw materials to adhere strictly to our own specifications and to certify each shipment.
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