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February 23 2024 SilcoTek

SilcoTek Travels to Pittcon 2024 to Present Inert HPLC Technology & More

From February 26th to 28th, 5 SilcoTek team members will be attending the 75th Pittcon Conference and Exposition at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. Keep an eye out for these...

January 10 2024 SilcoTek

Evaluating the Impact of SilcoTek's Coating Process on Stainless Steel

SilcoTek commissioned Massachusetts Materials Research, Inc. to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of our Dursan® coating process on the bulk metallurgical properties of 316 stainless steel. This...

April 07 2023 SilcoTek

SilcoTek Loves FISHING For Ways to Help Our Customers

"IN THE LIGHT" FISHING is an acronym used here at SilcoTek® to represent our core values. This week, we wanted to talk about the second "I", which stands for "in the light." In the Light defines our...

March 10 2023 SilcoTek

SilcoTek is Making the World a Better Place, One Part at a Time

"A Better World Through SilcoTek Coatings" This is our vision. It may seem vague to some, but to us it has a lot of meaning. But, what does the SilcoTek vision really mean? Sure, we can parrot it...

January 27 2023 SilcoTek

How Do You Know You're Getting the Same Coating Every Time?

SilcoTek® has adopted Intel's Copy Exactly! philosophy. What is Copy Exactly? Intel states, "the methodology focuses on matching the manufacturing site to the development site. Matching occurs at all...

December 30 2022 SilcoTek

Goodbye, 2022! SilcoTek Recap

2022 has been a year for the record books. In the wake of the pandemic and starting to get back to "normal," SilcoTek has made many improvements and enhancements in all aspects of the business. New...

December 02 2022 SilcoTek

SilcoTek's Best Practices for Packaging Parts for Success

One of SilcoTek's most important strategic directives is to coat every part perfectly and on time, every day. This week, we wanted to discuss our receiving process and what happens to your parts once...

October 28 2022 SilcoTek

Getting the Most out of Your Quote for CVD Coating Services

Two of our quotes team members, Corey Robinson and Kevin Morrison. Best Practices for Quoting SilcoTek® Coatings Before sending a request for a quote to SilcoTek, we have a few pointers to make the...

September 09 2022 SilcoTek

Can SilcoTek Coatings be Removed and Re-Applied?

SilcoTek’s high performance CVD coatings are used to enhance material performance in a variety of demanding applications. Any coating from any supplier will eventually degrade in highly challenging...