Coatings
As a leading coatings provider Fluorocarbon offers a wide range of fluoropolymers such as PTFE coatings, PFA coatings, ECTFE coatings and ETFE coatings. These are backed up by our strong partnerships with major suppliers including DuPont (Teflon®), Whitford (Xylan®), Solvay (Halar®), Arkema (Rilsan®) and Thermolon.
If you are at the design stage, it is not too soon to contact us. We work with our customers to understand their needs, recommending the most accurate and cost effective surface technology to increase product lifecycle and enhance functionality providing a distinct competitive advantage.
Overview of Coatings
Fluorocarbon specialises in innovative solutions to improve the properties of finished surfaces through functional coatings, our site is equipped with the latest technology and we can provide the following:
- Chemical etching
- 3 stage wash plant
- Vapour degreasing
- Solvent degreasing
- Automated shotblast- Ali-Oxide and steel grit
- Manual shotblast cabinets for more intricate parts
- Multifunctional shotblast room for preparing vessels, hoppers, and other big dimensional parts
- Environmentally friendly dry-back spray booths for wet and powder applications
- Dipping application tank up to 3.5m x 2.5m
- Spray room with underfloor extraction with an automated pull system into a 3m x3m oven
- Automated 8 gun spray machine for high volume wet spray application-offering better quality and minimising thickness variation
- Automated spray 3 gun spray machine for development and low/medium volume production wet spray application
- Inline overhead conveyor oven for high volume, low-temperature cure
- Flatbed conveyor oven with 4 zone cure cycle
Fluorocarbon offer a wide range of high performance coatings to cover application across many industries. Working with our customers to understand their needs, we recommend the most accurate and cost effective surface technology to increase product lifecycle and enhance functionality providing a distinct competitive advantage.
Abrasion Resistance
We offer several extremely tough coatings that can withstand arduous industrial applications. These can be single or multi-coat systems with reinforcement within the actual coating to extend product life.
Antimicrobial Coatings
Fluorocarbon uses a silver nano technology additive which can be blended in our existing coatings to provide a sterile antimicrobial surface, reducing the spread and cross contamination of bacteria and germs in the medical and food industry.
Fluorocarbon Surface Technologies has formulated many special surface coatings to provide customer specific solutions integrated with other properties such as low friction and abrasion resistance.
Bimetallic Corrosion
Our high-performance barrier coatings and their insulating properties provide an excellent solution to bimetallic corrosion
Chemical Resistance
Our wide range of chemically resistant fluoropolymer coatings offer solutions to many of the challenges of chemical protection against aggressive and corrosive chemical environments that is required in today's advanced industrial, pharmaceutical and agrochemical sectors.
Corrosion Resistance
Our coatings are used in many harsh environments, offering extended protection to critical components where the structural integrity of the substrate is vital.
Cryogenic Stability
Where surface technology is required to perform at extremely low temperatures (-40 to -195) we can offer suitable coatings without loss of physical properties.
Electrical properties
With very high dielectic strength, low dissipation factors and high surface resistivity, our specially formulated materials can achieve electrically tested insulative properties or electroconductive characteristics to function as anti-static and static dissipative surfaces.
Heat Resistance
Our products have a wide spread of temperature resistance. PTFE based materials can run at up to 280°C, while our high-temperature range of specialised finishes have ratings of up to 600°C intermittently.
Heat Dissipation
Our Ceramic range of coatings is an Environmentally friendly, inorganic coating with excellent thermal conductivity and emissivity whilst being electrically insulative.
Hydrophobic
Within our wide range of surface coatings many formulations are non wetting; as with the non-stick properties, this greatly aids cleanup of surfaces and in some applications will be virtually self cleaning.
Low Friction
Fluoropolymer materials can have very low coefficient of friction, with figures as low as 0.02 static and 0.01 dynamic achievable
Non -stick/release
Fluoropolymer coatings offer superb non-stick surfaces that are easily cleaned. A wide range of release characteristics are achievable but can depend on temperature requirements.
Anti-galling
Stainless Steel material have good corrosion resistance, however when these parts are subjected to heavy loads against a similar material such as a threaded part or a gear the friction causes the metals to "weld themselves" together ceasing up, our surface coatings can eliminate the problem.
Dry film lubricants
A combination of features in our coating products such as Low friction and hard wearing aids lubrication in many applications where a conventional lubrication by itself is not sufficient.
Our exclusive range of high-performance advance surface technologies allows us to provide solutions and add value to applications across many industries.
We offer a wide range of fluoropolymers such as PTFE, PFA, FEP, ECTFE and ETFE along with Ceramic coating.
Brand names available include: DuPont (Teflon®), Whitford (Xylan®), Solvay (Halar®) Thermolon and Arkema (Rilsan®). The below details just a few industries served and examples.
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| Food & Beverage | Chemical/Pharmaceutical |
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| White Goods | Packaging/Film |
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| Machinery/Engineering | Medical |
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Refurbishment
Our maintenance and refurbishment service offers the controlled removal of surface coatings and restores products to their original condition.
Our service covers most types of process and engineering equipment including, but not limited to:
- Bakery refurbishment (dough hoppers, trays, mixers, chutes & rollers)
- Chemical processing equipment (centrifuges, agitators & process vessels)
- Material handling equipment (guide rails, conveyor slats, feed chutes)
- Packaging machinery (heat seal bars, cutting blades)
Our Service
- Controlled coating removal
- Reconditions surface
- Special reinforced based layers for longer life and corrosion protection
- Rapid turnaround
- Collection or delivery
Why choose Fluorocarbon Surface Technologies?
Working with our customers to understand their needs, we have developed a range of F-LON® coatings and can recommend the most accurate and cost effective surface technology to increase product lifecycle and enhance functionality providing a distinct competitive advantage.
