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Surface Treatments: Thermal Spray
When Dough Handling Gets Sticky, Plasmadize® Rises to the Challenge
When a food processor needed help reducing dough residue on baking equipment, Plasmadize rose to the challenge.
Tug-of-War No More: How Plasmadize® Releases Rubber From Steel Platens
Magnaplate coatings — like Plasmadize® — can improve the non-stick properties of critical surfaces so sticky substances release easily.
Plasmadize® Steps up to the Plate for Label Machine Manufacturer
Plasmadize® recently helped a labeling machine manufacturer reduce wear and friction on its peel-off plates while improving their lifetimes.
Engineered Coatings Have an Important Role in Fighting the Climate Crisis
Magnaplate innovation and engineered surface treatments can have a positive effect on environmental sustainability.
Prevent a Hot Mess - How Our CS-1331 Coatings Wipe Away PVC Residue
Magnaplate’s CS-1331 is a lubricious coating type that offers PVC release and proven thermal stability at up to 500°F.
Engineered Coatings Keep Equipment Free From Residue and Hang-ups
Magnaplate engineered coatings enhance and protect metal components from sticky substances and ensure proper mold release.
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.
Evaluating Coatings? Don’t Forget About Thermal Sprays
When selecting your surface protection coating, be sure to also consider thermal sprays.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To Keep Mining Operations Running, Protect Valves With Engineered Coatings
Mining and mineral processing facilities present a host of threats that can affect valve reliability and uptime. Knife gate valves used in slurry transport, for example, must consistently perform despite heavy contact with abrasive, corrosive metal solids or acids that can erode the valve.
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.
Get the Full Benefits of Extended Wear Protection for Your Metal Parts
What’s the best way to protect metal parts against wear, abrasion or corrosion to ensure long lifetimes? Engineers evaluating protective coatings for metal components may not be aware of the advantages that thermal sprays offer over conventional coatings.
Engineered Coating Protects Pulleys In Sticky Labeling Machine
Labeling machines must operate around the clock at very high speeds. But if adhesive residue clings to any of the machine components, the entire production process will grind to a halt until the parts are cleaned.
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.
Coatings Protect Automated Equipment Across Multiple Industries
Engineered coatings keep automated machinery running smoothly, increasing throughput and helping to maintain 24/7 operation.
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.
Magnaplate Plasmadize®
Synergistic thermal spray Plasmadize includes polymer infusion, and when applied mechanically bonds to the substrate, altering its surface properties.
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.
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.
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.
Design Tips For Coatings
Following basic tips when designing parts for coatings will prevent problems during the coating process.
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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