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The sector rarely decides the coating. The substrate, the duty and the failure mode do. What changes between these industries is which of the three dominates.

Industrial Cutting Tools Aerospace Automotive Medical Defense Energy Performance Food & Packaging Specialty

A worker fitting clear wraparound safety glasses in a workshop — Production parts, coated to schedule

Industrial

Tooling that runs continuously fails on wear, on galling, or on the downtime spent changing it. Films are chosen against whichever of those is actually costing the line time.

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A milling spindle cutting an aluminum part under a jet of coolant — Industrial

Cutting Tools

The low temperature cycle means resharpened carbide, brazed assemblies, PCD and CBN can be recoated without damaging the braze or the diamond.

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An indexable face mill seen end-on, with its carbide inserts and clamping screws — Cutting Tools

Aerospace

Hardened and heat treated aerospace hardware keeps its certified properties, because the coating cycle never reaches a temperature that would change them.

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The intake lip and fan blades of a turbofan engine — Aerospace

Automotive

Valve train, bearing and driveline components run hotter and drier than they used to. Low friction films buy back the margin that removing oil took away.

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An engine accessory drive with pulleys and a serpentine belt — Automotive

Medical

Titanium nitride is chemically stable and holds an edge. A film one to four microns thick leaves an instrument inside the tolerance it was ground to.

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Stainless dental and surgical hand instruments laid out on a light surface — Medical

Defense

Hard, low friction surfaces with a consistent finish that survives solvents, field cleaning and repeated cycling.

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Rows of polished steel pins with fluted tips laid out in a tray — Defense

Energy

Abrasive slurry, particulate and dry contact are boron carbide problems. The film is one to three microns thick, so a sealing face still seals.

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Stainless pipe elbows and threaded brass valve bodies on a workbench — Energy

Performance

Motorsport parts are already at the limit of the material. A low friction film is one of the few changes left that costs no weight and no clearance.

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A stripped motorcycle engine on a bench: crankshaft, piston, gearsets and chains — Performance

Food & Packaging

Where lubricant has to be excluded, a solid film stays on the part. Release surfaces stop dragging and slitters keep cutting cleanly.

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A stainless filling head dispensing into a bottle on a conveyor — Food & Packaging

Specialty

The low temperature cycle admits substrates that usually stay out of a coating chamber. Ask before assuming a material or a geometry is out of range.

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Turned steel chuck components and a threaded ring beside engineering drawings — Specialty

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Tell us the substrate, the duty and the way the part fails now. SurfTech comes back with the code, the thickness and the masking.

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