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About SilcoTek®

SilcoTek Makes Your Product or Process Perform Better

SilcoTek® is the world's leading provider of high performance coatings applied by chemical vapor deposition, or CVD. We became a coatings company because we have a passion for helping people and businesses conquer their most difficult challenges. 

 

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By improving the surface properties of the materials they use, our customers can run their machines longer, manufacture complex products more efficiently, and continue to develop innovations that push the scientific and industrial world forward. We don't sell any products because we're solely focused on offering coatings that make your product better. Watch our process video and see how SilcoTek can improve your products. 

 

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Service and Superior Quality 

As a truly service-oriented organization, we emphasize Plus 1 customer service and employee satisfaction first. Plus 1 means that every SilcoTek employee strives to exceed your expectations, whether you're asking technical questions, placing an order, or troubleshooting. Equally important, we maintain a workplace culture where our employees enjoy coming to work as much as they enjoy going home at the end of the day. 

Go to our applications page to get innovative coating solutions to improve your products. 

 

Coating Applications 

Thousands of companies call on SilcoTek to solve the most complex and challenging material problems that other treatments or materials cannot. Our coatings offer the most chemically inert, corrosion resistant, and non-stick surfaces and can be applied to existing parts or components. If you would like to speak with someone on our team - a technician, our Head Coach, or anyone else - please call +1 (814) 353-1778 or email Sales@SilcoTek.com.

Our History

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1985: Open For Business

1985, Paul Silvis starts Restek® Corporation, a chromatography company, located in one room of a former elementary school-turned-business-incubator.

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1987: Our First Coating

Restek invents the original Silcosteel® coating as a way to make metal as inert as deactivated glass in analytical instruments.

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1993: Expanding Our Capability

The coating team develops a method for treating other analytical components like valves, fittings, and custom components.

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1999: In Space

Silcosteel treated air monitoring components are installed on the space shuttle Discovery, continuing our long involvement with coating sample flow paths for space exploration dating back to the MIR space station and Cassinni mission to Saturn.

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2002: Becoming One

The coating team becomes it's own division within Restek, expanding into a dedicated coating facility.  We begin development of unique and dedicated CVD coating process equipment and continually improve our product.

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2003: Expanding Our Horizons

We develop SilcoKlean and Silcolloy coatings to address customer needs in non chromatography applications like non stick and corrosion resistance.

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2004: Recognition

R&D Magazine recognizes SilcoGuard® as one of the 100 most technologically significant products of the year. 

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2006: Driving Innovation

Restek Performance Coatings is awarded 2 "Best New Product" awards at SEMA, the nation's top automotive specialty show.

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2009: On Our Own

The coating team is spun off from Restek to form SilcoTek®, an independant company dedicated solely to offering high performance CVD coatings to a wide range of industrial markets.

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2013: New Ultra Modern Facility

SilcoTek completes construction of a new ultra-modern coating facility.  The new facility more than triples capacity and improves our innovative coating process.

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2018: The Growth Continues

SilcoTek achieves several manufacturing and sales milestones, opening the door for continued expansion.  The team begins development work on expanding both it's workforce and building.

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2019: Our Plant Expansion Nears Completion

Our growth continues!  Throughout 2019 our building expansion team has been working with our contractor to complete construction of a 35,000 square foot expansion.  We're excited to move into our building addition by the end of 2019.

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2020: SilcoTek Completes a Major Expansion

SilcoTek completes its plant expansion.  More than doubling our capacity and advancing our manufacturing systems.

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