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April 04 2025 Value Added Services

What Can Be Passivated? Passivation and Advanced CVD Coatings

Passivation is a widely used chemical process that enhances the corrosion resistance of stainless steel by removing free iron from its surface, allowing a protective oxide layer to form. Industries...

March 21 2025 SilcoTek

Why Particles on Silicon Coatings are Normal, and Solutions for Mitigation

SilcoTek’s amorphous silicon-based coatings applied by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) are trusted and relied upon by some of the world’s largest companies in high-purity industries such as...

February 07 2025 Value Added Services

The Critical Role of Standardized Passivation

Importance of Standardized Passivation Standardized passivation is essential for ensuring consistency, reliability, and effectiveness in protecting metal surfaces from corrosion and contamination. By...

November 15 2024 Value Added Services

Enhance SilcoTek's CVD Coatings with Cleanroom Packaging and Passivation Services

Industry standards for citric acid passivation and ISO 6 Class 1000 cleanroom packaging are nothing new to many of the industries we serve, but they are new to SilcoTek! We wanted to give a quick...

September 16 2024 SilcoTek

Enhancing Stainless Steel Corrosion Resistance with Citric Passivation & CVD Coatings

The purpose of this blog is to study the impact of substrate passivation before coating on the long-term HCl corrosion performance of three SilcoTek coatings. Dursan®, Silcolloy® 2000 and Siltride®...

May 23 2024 Corrosion

Introducing SilcoTek's New Services: Citric Passivation and Cleanroom

SilcoTek is very excited to announce our 2 newest services, citric passivation and ISO 6 Class 1000 cleanroom and packaging! Read on to find out how these new offerings can benefit your processes....

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What Can Be Passivated? Passivation and Advanced CVD Coatings

Why Particles on Silicon Coatings are Normal, and Solutions for Mitigation

The Critical Role of Standardized Passivation

Enhance SilcoTek's CVD Coatings with Cleanroom Packaging and Passivation Services

Enhancing Stainless Steel Corrosion Resistance with Citric Passivation & CVD Coatings

Introducing SilcoTek's New Services: Citric Passivation and Cleanroom

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