Surface Coatings Articles
Armoloy NTDC and the Oil & Gas sector
Armoloy (UK) Ltd has recently expanded its operations in response to an increasing demand from the offshore Oil & Gas sector for its unique surface as...
Valve User Issue 28
Hardide aims high for prestigious Nadcap approval
Hardide Coatings’ plan to secure the aerospace industry’s prestigious Nadcap approval is taking off. The provider of advanced surface coating technolo...
Valve User Issue 28
Hardide Coatings solves hard chrome plating problem
Hardide Coatings, innovator in advanced surface coating technology, has developed a revolutionary alternative to toxic hard-chrome plating (HCP) which...
Valve User Issue 27
Chrome - Don’t write the Obituary too soon
It is becoming increasingly fashionable, almost politically correct, to be seen to be calling time on a material that has served us well in the past, ...
Valve User Issue 27
Hardide Coatings for AgustaWestland: Hard chrome replacement test a success
Hardide Coatings, the provider of advanced surface coating technology, has successfully completed the first of two test phases to approve the Hardide ...
Valve User Issue 26
Armoloy for the Valve & Actuator Industry
Armoloy (UK) Ltd is the UK licensee for the Armoloy NTDC (Nodular Thin Dense Chrome ) process.
This process deposits a unique, nodular 99.9% pure ...
Valve User Issue 26
Hardide Coatings secures significant grant for new drilling industry hardfacing coating
Advanced surface coating specialist Hardide Coatings has secured a grant of up to £250,000 under the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Smart’ scheme to com...
Valve User Issue 25
EDF Energy selects Hardide coating for nuclear plant valve application
Advanced surface coating company Hardide Coatings has secured EDF Energy as a new customer and has been specified as a cost-effective, high-performanc...
Valve User Issue 24
Hardide in Field Use on BP’s Block 31 in Angola
A new low friction, nonporous, wear r e s i s t a n t tungsten carbide coating from Hardide Coatings has enabled UNITECH Offshore AS to design a uniqu...
Valve User Issue 20
Major Expansion for Dynamic Ceramic
Dynamic-Ceramic Ltd is a specialist manufacturer of Engineering Components from Advanced Ceramic materials making parts and assemblies to their custom...
Valve User Issue 20
Total Carbide’s New Intraform Process: Produces Complex Internal Forms in Tungsten Carbide Components
Total Carbide, a leading developer of Tungsten Carbide wear parts, introduces a new process that produces tungsten carbide components with complex int...
Valve User Issue 19
Total Carbide’s intraformTM Process Opens New Design Possibilities
BVAA member Total Carbide is launching a new process to produce tungsten carbide components with complex internal forms for use in harsh environments ...
Valve User Issue 18
ARC Energy: Increasing the life expectancy of valves & actuators
Corrosion is the ultimate dirty word, leading to a waste of precious natural resources and creating problems for those entrusted with the processing a...
Valve User Issue 18
Hardide Captures Chemical Process with ATEX Certified Digital Camera
Hardide Coatings, global developer of patented metal coatings, is using a new anti-hazard digital camera from CorDEX Instruments to capture
chemical...
Valve User Issue 17
Hardide Coatings Sales Team Strengthened
Hardide Coatings, the advanced surface coatings company, has appointed Robin Gillham as business development manager for its global valve, pump and au...
Valve User Issue 15
Hardide Coatings Secures AS9100 Aerospace Quality Standard Certification
Hardide Coatings, which develops and applies tungsten carbide-based hard coatings, has secured AS9100 Aerospace Quality Standard Certification for its...
Valve User Issue 13
Flowserve McCANNA Introduces New Coatings: Improving valve performance and reducing costs
Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, recently announced the availabi...
Valve User Issue 13
Total Carbide joins BVAA and has samples on test with leading valve manufacturers
Total Carbide, a leading manufacturer of Tungsten Carbide wear parts, has joined the BVAA to further develop and promote its range of bespoke Tungsten...
Valve User Issue 13
Hardide Coatings secures approval from Flowserve: A new line of coated metal ball and seats
Hardide Coatings’ unique tungsten carbide-based coating has been approved for use on a new line of coated metal ball and seats, and has secured first ...
Valve User Issue 12
Hardide at NACE: Hardide Coatings selected to present at NACE CORROSION 2010
Hardide Coatings has been selected to present a paper at the world’s largest corrosion conference CORROSION 2010 Conference and Expo, March 14-18, 201...
Valve User Issue 11
Blackhall uses Armoloy
Valve specialists Blackhall Engineering are now using Armoloy surface coating on their recently developed range of large bore “anti-seize” diverter va...
Valve User Issue 11
A COATING FOR OPTIMUM VALVE PERFORMANCE
Do you have problems with excessive wear, corrosion or galling in your valve applications? Are traditional coating methods not achieving the results y...
Valve User Issue 3
ISO 14000 & FDA APPROVALS FOR HARDIDE
Surface engineering company, Hardide Coatings Limited, has been awarded ISO 14001 certification, the internationally recognised standard for Environme...
Valve User Issue 4
“Valves for hydrogen service will have to be reliable, intrinsically safe and ‘idiot proof’.”: New ultra-hard coating reduces valve actuation force
Design engineers working to optimise the performance of their products are using their ingenuity to extend existing material properties by trialing an...
Valve User Issue 5
HARDIDE PRESENTS
Hardide Coating to be Presented at 2008 International Conference on Tungsten, Refractory and Hardmaterials
Hardide-T, the unique tungsten carbide-b...
Valve User Issue 6