Today anti-friction coatings (AFC) are one of the most up-to-date and advanced ways to increase reliability of components, units and mechanisms, to reduce friction and to protect against wear.
Anti-friction coatings make running-in significantly easier, prevent dust build-up, provide emergency and lifetime lubrication. In some cases use of AFC enables to produce components and units of the cheaper structural materials. Besides, the performances of the finished items are usually much better. In addition, anti-friction coatings allow the end-users to identify the original item without any difficulties.
AFCs are applied onto metal and plastic surfaced by dipping, stenciling, spraying, with brush or roller depending on size, shape, weight, material and quantity of the items to be treated. It is also necessary to follow the requirements towards the protective layer to be created, its layout and location.
When you use anti-friction coatings supplied in aerosol cans and curing at room temperature, the process of applying usually presents no troubles. However, when you use the same materials in packages of bigger size, you have to solve a number of tasks how to arrange it technically first.
In order to get the anti-friction coating ready to be applied you need to stir it thoroughly before that. In some cases thinning with a special solvent is required to get dilution of certain viscosity. It is also impossible to control the protective layer thickness and quality without special devices. In many cases surface pretreatment is necessary to increase adhesion and improve effectiveness. You should have specific equipment, separate areas and qualified staff to carry out this pretreatment and then to apply your AFC.
The special requirements listed above can become a challenge for many enterprises of small-scale or single-piece production but ATF company will help you solve it.
We provide services of Molykote anti-friction coating applying onto the workpieces, components and units of any shape, weight and size. We guarantee individual approach to each customer on selecting a proper AFC to meet certain tasks.
Contact us and our experts will help you select a suitable method of applying and a proper Molykote coating whose properties will perfectly meet your unit service conditions. We will carry out surface preparation and apply AFC with a through quality control for you. Cooperation with ATF will enable your company to get a significant competitive advantage on the market due to the innovative technology you will use to produce the goods of better quality.