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Surface Treatments: Hard Anodizing
How to Bolster the Benefits of Anodized Aluminum Surface Treatments
Magnaplate’s Tufram coatings combine the advantages of hard anodizing with engineered enhancements to give your aluminum parts optimal protection.
Magnaplate Engineered Coatings for Pumps, Valves and Compressors
Pumps, valves and compressors endure a host of threats that can impact their reliability and your operation’s productivity. Our new video describes how Magnaplate’s engineered coatings protect a variety of metal surfaces from corrosion, abrasion, wear, material buildup and other conditions to ensure optimal media flow and maximum uptime across a broad range of applications.
Don’t Get Stuck - Engineered Coatings Address Sticky Substances in Many Industries
When sticking threatens equipment uptime and reliability, engineered coatings can protect your machine surfaces and improve their non-stick properties.
Engineered Coatings Solve Sticking Issues in Food Processing Equipment
Magnaplate offers a wide range of engineered coatings that protect food production machines and equipment and keeps them running at their best.
Video - Engineered Coatings for Aerospace
Our new video presents some of the engineered coatings General Magnaplate offers, along with the technical features that make them well-suited for use in demanding aerospace applications where failure is not an option.
Protect Your Pumps With Engineered Coatings
Engineered coatings can address your application’s conditions and your pump’s specific mechanical requirements to ensure productivity and uptime.
Mind Your Metal - Coating Conversations on Aerospace [On-Demand Webinar]
With the right coating, you can expect more from your aerospace equipment — boosted productivity and decreased downtime and variability. Magnaplate's proprietary finishes offer unique, problem-solving solutions for some of the toughest applications.
Anodizing Aluminum Parts - Answers to Your Frequently Asked Questions
These FAQs will help answer some of the basic questions you may have about anodizing aluminum parts to give them greater reliability and durability.
How to Select the Best Engineered Coating for Your Aluminum Parts
Tufram and Nedox engineered coatings are appropriate for a wide range of applications involving aluminum parts.
Mind Your Metals - Coating Conversations on Medical and Pharmaceutical Applications [Webinar]
Our new webinar, “Mind Your Metals - Boost Uptime And Cleanliness With High-Performance Coatings,” will show how engineered coatings can solve downtime issues and increase productivity in clean environments.
Why Engineered Coatings Are Important For Your MRO Strategy
When you want to get the most out of your worn parts, let Magnaplate engineered coatings be part of your MRO strategy.
Mind Your Metal - Coating Conversations on Valves [On—demand Webinar]
Valves used in industrial facilities, as well as oil and gas installations, must endure severe conditions that can damage surfaces, lead to downtime or even shorten a part’s lifetime.
Mind Your Metal - Coating Conversations on Food and Bulk Solids [On—demand Webinar]
Food processing and bulk solids operations share many of the same objectives - maximizing runtime, high production and throughput, lower maintenance costs and long equipment lifetime. However, issues like part replacement, preventative maintenance and cleaning can hinder those goals.
Mind Your Metal - Coating Conversations on Packaging [On-demand Webinar]
In our latest webinar, Mind Your Metal - Coating Conversations on Packaging, we examine some common issues in the packaging industry and explore the ways high-performance coatings can solve them to help you reduce downtime and increase productivity.
Video - Protect Critical Oil And Gas Components From Extreme Conditions
Throughout the oil and gas industry, equipment is prone to unforgiving conditions that can affect performance and reliability.
Delivering the Right Coating and Service for a Precision Machine Shop
When your machine shop creates precise metal parts for demanding industries, failure is not an option. Your vendors must be responsive to your needs as well as those of your customers.
How An Early Partnership With Your Coating Supplier Provides Benefits
No matter your industry, there will be times when you need to coat a part — whether to protect it from conditions in its target application, improve its performance, extend its lifetime or simply to enhance its aesthetics.
Video - Our Engineered Coating Process
This video shows how Magnaplate fortifies your engineered coating by infusing polymers into the substrate and applying a proprietary sealing process so it becomes an integral part of the new surface.
Inside Magnaplate’s Culture of Continuous Improvement
When you learn that a company has earned AS9100 certification, you know it is committed to continuously improving its operations.
Understanding the Many Facets of Corrosion
Sometime during your metal or alloy part’s lifetime, it will be vulnerable to corrosion. Corrosion is a common problem, and it occurs in many different forms.
Why Masking Deserves Time and Attention
When you need to enhance the surface of your part, chances are you don’t want to coat the entire part. Although masking is an essential aspect of the surface protection process, it is often an afterthought.
How Engineered Coatings Prevent Equipment Failure in Aerospace Applications
Aerospace environments involve some of the toughest conditions for equipment. Threats like friction, galling, corrosion and high temperatures can cause some of the industry’s most common metals and alloys to fail.
Video - Engineered Coatings for Powder and Bulk Solids Handling
In powder and bulk solids handling processes, many conditions can hinder equipment reliability and performance.
Engineered Coatings Give Old Parts New Life
When machine parts wear out, they can hurt the plant’s productivity and costs. While replacing these parts may be appropriate, MRO professionals should consider refurbishing them with the help of engineered surface enhancement coatings.
Engineered Coatings Optimize Powder and Bulk Solids Equipment Output
In the powder bulk solids industry, precise metering and efficient material feeding are critical. However, several conditions can hinder machine performance and affect lifetime.
Video - Engineered Coatings for Food Processing
Throughout the food processing process, a variety of conditions can affect your equipment’s performance and reliability.
Carrying Forward a Legacy of Excellence in Aerospace
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Magnaplate was part of the Apollo program's success from the beginning, both on the ground innovating surface coatings for space exploration and, later, on the moon protecting the drill tubes that sampled the moon's soil and rocks.
How Engineered Coatings Help Packaging Machines Run Smoothly
Fast-paced, high-volume production facilities cannot afford downtime caused by poorly performing packaging equipment.
Completing Our Texas Expansion
Magnaplate's Arlington, Texas, facility has expanded to keep pace with our substantial growth over the last five years.
Synergistic Coatings Keep Food Processing Equipment Running Efficiently and Longer
When it comes to food processing applications, the types of equipment that need protection are as varied as the threats they face. Whether you specify or upgrade molds, hoppers, pneumatic cylinders, extruders or guillotine blades, protecting that equipment is a top priority.
Video - Engineered Coatings for Oil and Gas
Surface enhancement coatings take the worry out of keeping your oil and gas tooling safe from wear and corrosive conditions—enabling you to downsize your casings and other components to make your drilling operation more efficient.
When Evaluating Anodizing, Keep Consistency In Mind
When you need an aluminum oxide finish to fortify metal components for long life, you’ll be faced with various anodizing processes to choose from. At first glance, they all promise protection from common threats and offer similar features and properties.
Video - Engineered Coatings for Packaging Applications
In the productivity-driven packaging world, there are many possible sources of downtime. Surface enhancement coatings can help you eliminate them—ensuring your packaging machines run smoothly.
Engineered Coatings Boost Productivity in Automated Systems
Engineered coatings boost productivity in automated systems, mitigating troublesome issues like abrasion, premature wear, corrosion and sticking.
Maintaining Equipment with Specialized Surface Treatments
Maintaining equipment with specialized surface treatments mitigates issues involving abrasion, premature wear, corrosion and sticking.
How Engineered Coatings Extend Equipment Lifetime [White Paper]
How engineered coatings extend equipment lifetime, protecting parts from wear, abrasion and corrosion.
Magnaplate Basic
Watch this video to learn about the basic versions of our advanced surface enhancement technologies.
How Metal Coatings Give The Dry Bulk Solids Industry An Edge
When it comes to bulk solids metering and handling machines, metal coatings play a crucial role. For one, they help reduce friction on metal feeders and prevent sticking. They also protect feeder components from wear.
Applying TUFRAM® To Aluminum Dies Improves Productivity For Custom Extruder
Applying engineered coating Tufram to aluminum dies improved custom extruder, resulting in longer die life and increased productivity.
Delivering Consistency Globally For Pharmaceutical OEM
Nedox and Tufram engineered coatings are FDA-compliant and accessible worldwide, delivering consistency for pharmaceutical OEM.
Eliminate Design Problems With The Right Base Metal Choice
Communicating early with your coating vendor to discuss base metal choices can limit issues later in the design process—especially if your part has tight tolerances.
Choose Surface Treatments Early To Avoid Future Problems
Choose the right surface treatments early to increase a part's lifespan, cut downtime and reduce overhead.
Get To Know Tufram Coatings
This video shows how Tufram coatings for aluminum far outperform conventional hard anodizing when it comes to corrosion resistance, friction reduction and hardness.
Protect Aluminum From Corrosion and Friction
Tufram synergistic surface coatings protect aluminum from corrosion and friction, and are a good choice for manufacturing, processing and packaging equipment.
Boost Uptime and Cleanliness in Food Processing Applications with Engineered Coatings
Boost uptime and cleanliness in food processing applications with engineered coatings that handle the demands of 24/7 plant schedules and rigorous cleaning routines.
Coatings Keep Converting Lines Humming
Applying the right type of engineered coatings to key machine components will keep converting lines humming.
Choose Tufram For Superior Performance Characteristics
Tufram and Tufram Basic Hard Anodizing coatings provide superior performance characteristics, offering different levels of hardness, friction reduction and corrosion resistance.
Design Tips For Coatings
Following basic tips when designing parts for coatings will prevent problems during the coating process.
Engineered Coatings Solve Pharmaceutical Packaging Issues
Engineered coatings solve pharmaceutical packaging issues, including problems relating to release, friction, corrosion, speed and sticking.
Engineered Smart Coatings For The Packaging Industry
Engineered smart coatings for the packaging industry reduce friction, eliminate wear and provide release and FDA compliance.
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