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November 18 2016

SilcoTek Exposes 5 Thanksgiving Myths, Or Are They Facts?

* It's turkey time! My favorite time of year. It's a time when families gather, eat a fabulous meal and watch great football...errrr bond together, yeah, that's it we sit and talk around the fire,...

November 11 2016 Process Analytical

Trouble Finding The Right Inert Coating?  SilcoTek Can Help.

Question of the week, how many coatings does SilcoTek® make? Well if you go to our navigation bar and click the coatings tab, the answer is there plain an simple, sort of.... You're probably thinking...

November 04 2016 SilcoTek

Improved SilcoTek Website.  Finally A Remodel Wihout Power Tools.

We've remodeled and boy does the place look great. Easy to get around, less clutter, new layout, even new paint... sort of, and we did it all without power tools. Curious about how we did a...

October 28 2016 Hydrophobicity & Moisture Resistance

The Best Of The Best.  Our Top 5 Blog Posts

What good is a competition if you don't measure it? We put our thinking caps on and decided to pit this year's blog posts up against each other and see which one comes out on top. Our second...

October 21 2016 Chemical Inertness

What Do You Want To Be For Halloween?

What are you going to be for Halloween? Man I hated that question. I seem to never be able to come up with that killer app of a costume that will make the party. The best costume I ever came up with...

October 14 2016 Chemical Inertness

Rosetta And SilcoTek Inert Coatings Make History!

The European Space Agency announced the dramatic end to an even more amazing space mission. On September 30th the Rosetta spacecraft made a controlled landing (read crash) into the surface of the...

September 30 2016 Process Analytical

Finally It's Over!  An Inert Coating Cost Calculation

* Well we're just about done with our series on how to calculate the cost of inert coatings. First we bored you to death with factors to consider when estimating coating costs. Next we piled on with...

September 23 2016 Process Analytical

What's It Cost Part Deux.  The Benefit Side Of A Coating Cost Equation

In last week's blog post, we discussed the cost side of justifying the purchase of inert, corrosion resistant coatings. If you thought the total coating cost associated with a SilcoTek® purchase was...

September 16 2016 Process Analytical

What's The Coating Cost?  How To Rationalize A Coating Purchase

What's the price? We get that question with every order. After issuing the quote customer responses range from "That's it? That's very reasonable." to "Why so much?" In a B2B transaction, the...