Duralar Technologies (Tuscon, Arizona), a developer of advanced ultra-hard metal coatings, has named Coating Technologies, Inc. (CTI) (Phoenix, Arizona) as the company’s newest authorized provider of coating services.
The announcement was made jointly by Duralar CEO Andrew Tudhope and CTI owner Robert Barrkman.
“CTI is a premier performer,” Tudhope says. “They're Nadcap-accredited and have many years of experience with the most advanced materials and surface finishing technologies. They have the know-how and professionalism we want in our partners.”
Duralar Technologies is the creator of a line of next-generation, ultra-hard coatings that can cover both the internal and external surfaces of metallic components. These coatings are used to enhance performance and increase the longevity of products in many industries. The company sells its proprietary systems to product manufacturers and also to commercial metal finishing operations.
“For a long time, we've been serving technology-savvy companies with the latest in surface finishing,” Barrkman says. “Now, the innovative coatings are adding important new capabilities. For example, the ArmorLube coating combines exceptional hardness with permanent dry lubrication, making it a natural for all the firearms manufacturers we work with.”
The ArmorLube coatings are created from a proprietary carbon-based formula, with carbon providing a natural graphitic lubricity, often eliminating the need for oils or greases. Originally, the line was developed to enhance soldier weapon systems for the U.S. Army (Washington, DC).
The company also offers several other specialized hard coatings aimed at reducing wear, protecting against corrosion or erosion, as a replacement for hard chrome, providing a decorative finish, and other specifically engineered qualities. The coatings are notable in that they can be applied with very high deposition speeds, enabling thicker coatings to be made when needed.
Also, certain coatings can be simultaneously applied to both inside and outside surfaces, using the company’s proprietary DualArmor process. This bathes metal parts in a dense plasma, so that all surfaces—interior, exterior, and complex 3D shapes—can be coated with high uniformity, at a very high rate, and without the line-of-sight limitations of spray-type coatings.