There are businesses that are centered on manufacturing bolts, nuts, and steel materials coated with fluorocarbon. Fluorocarbon-based materials are ideal for the highly demanding operations of the petroleum and petrochemical industries, where durability and reliability are critically important.
Ensuring Reliability and Quality
These specific properties also make the materials optimally suited for applications in other manufacturing industries that demand reliable components and offer interesting jobs in a highly innovative and rapidly developing business.
To ensure top-notch quality, the production plants are fully automated, ensuring reliability and consistency. Additionally, all products undergo independent, rigorous quality and reliability assessments.
Materials with fluorocarbon coatings offer a high degree of protection against corrosion. In a recent assessment, bolting materials with fluorocarbon coatings were found to have slight to no rusting and only minimal blistering after a 4,000-hour salt spray test.
Fluorocarbon Coatings Bond Easily
Fluorocarbon coating will also improve the appearance and performance of your products and is available in a broad range of colors to suit your requirements. Fluorocarbon coating will bond to metals, ceramics, plastics, and many other materials. Good mechanical schools offer programs to help you get qualified for this interesting professional field.
A very good example of a fluorocarbon’s performance “in service” is illustrated by, for example, fasteners that are used on pipelines and other petrochemical equipment. The properties of Fluorocarbon are improving their function and extending their life span.
The fastener nuts will not get “frozen” to the stub shafts, and there will a halt to corrosive deterioration. Installing and removing fasteners will be simplified because fluorocarbon coating reduces “break-out” and “make-up” torque, hence providing safety during operations.
10 reasons for choosing Fluorocarbon Coating
A Fluorocarbon Coating is different from a traditional fluoro-polymer coating in one key aspect – it is a composite material. A lubricant with a very friction coefficient is combined with the latest organic high-temperature polymer in a matrix. When combined, these polymers form “plastic alloys” that have desirable and unique properties:
| 1. Low Friction | Friction: 0.02 |
| 2. Wear Resistance | Also under extreme pressure |
| 3. Corrosion & Chemical Resistance | In about any environment: Excellent |
| 4. Weather Resistance | Withstands sunlight, saltwater & road chemicals |
| 5. Wide Temperature Range for Operating | -420ºF – 550ºF (-250ºC – 285ºC) |
| 6. Curing Schedule: Flexible | Is ambient up to 740ºF (390ºC) |
| 7. Color Range: Wide | You can color code your products |
| 8. Pliability | ASM Fluorocarbon coating bend freely & repeatedly and do not break |
| 9. Machinability | Apply several coats (most formulations) & mill as specified |
| 10. Excellent Adhesion | Adheres to most plastics, metals, wood, ceramics, and to itself as well (most formulations) |