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April 22 2016 SilcoTek

Do SilcoTek Coatings Change Surface Roughness?

Will SilcoTek® coatings make my part surface smoother or rougher? The short answer is no. The why and how takes a bit of explaining. Why is surface roughness important? Surface roughness (Ra) is an...

April 14 2016 Corrosion

Unleashing The Potential Of Stainless Steel

Dr. Min Yuan will be hosting a webinar entitled "Unleashing The Potential Of Stainless Steel With SilcoTek Coatings In Corrosive Environments". Min is a Research and Development Scientist with...

April 08 2016 Process Analytical

One Detail That Can Kill Your Entire Tier 3 Compliance Program

By 2017, the EPA’s Tier 3 gasoline sulfur regulations require that oil refineries reduce the average sulfur level in gasoline by more than 60 percent, to just 10 parts per million (ppm), from the...

March 31 2016 Corrosion

SilcoTek Successfully Coats Earth, Alien Activity Up 75%

A year ago today, SilcoTek® announced their most ambitious coating project yet, coating the world's oceans! Today SilcoTek announced the successful completion of that project and more! In an often...

March 25 2016 Process Analytical

Where Corrosion Multiplies Damage By Orders Of Magnitude

As if corrosion wasn't bad enough! Excessive maintenance, frequent component replacement, and lost productivity add up to high cost and frequent headaches. According to US Government studies,...

March 18 2016 SilcoTek

Top 5 SilcoTek Coating Myths

Like mister Yetti and Nessi here, SilcoTek® coatings have their own cloud of myths hanging over their heads. No offense to the believers out there, you go right on searching for those mythical...

March 11 2016 SilcoTek

How Copy Exactly! And Other Quality Tools Benefit You

* Nobody likes a copy cat. When I was a kid, my friend sitting next to me in math class would copy my work. Did that ever bug me! The teacher eventually moved him and solved the problem, but I never...

March 04 2016 Process Analytical

Why Aren't You At Pittcon?

SilcoTek coatings will be exhibiting at Pittcon in Atlanta March 6-10. We've been exhibiting our coatings at the show (originally as part of Restek and now as SilcoTek®) for nearly 30 years. As you...

February 26 2016 Process Analytical

SilcoTek Coatings Are More Flexible Than A Yoga Guru

* Getting older means experiencing the occasional stiff gate and loss of flexibility. Fortunately, SilcoTek® found the fountain of youth of flexible coatings. Like some uncanny yoga master, the...