SilcoTek Corporation

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SilcoTek's unique coating products improve the performance of customer products by:

• Improving corrosion resistance
• Reducing chemical adsorption
• Improving low level sulfur/H2S inertness
• Improving product purity
• Reducing coking and fouling
• Improving moisture resistance and hydrophobicity

SilcoTek's unique coatings benefit customers worldwide in many diverse markets.  Including:

• Process/Chemical
• Analytical
• Oil & Gas
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Semiconductor

A Brief History

In 1987, Silcosteel® was invented to make metal chromatography columns more inert.  Customers embraced the technology and adopted our coating technology into the complete sampling pathway. Including:

• Capillary columns
• Inlet liners
• Injection ports
• Tubing & fittings
• Sample cylinders

The customer benefits were obvious, more precise lower cost sampling and analysis.  In many cases, our coatings made low level sampling possible where original materials and design features could not achieve desired results.

Through the years, Restek's coating division further refined inert coating technology and patented several new coating technologies and applications.   Our technology has found its way into refining and petrochemical plants, industrial fittings and valves, analytical instrument flow paths, aerospace, and the automotive industry.

In 2009, SilcoTek® opened a new chapter when it became a separate company dedicated to innovative coating solutions for analytical and other markets.  Our new mission will allow us to offer previously unavailable technologies to new markets and customers with material limitations.

If you have custom parts to treat, please contact SilcoTek at 814-353-1778 or go online to www.SilcoTek.com for more information. You will find the same Plus One customer service at SilcoTek that Restek is famous for!

The SilcoTek® Coating Process

When you decide to improve the performance of your parts with SilcoTek's coating solutions, you begin a customer experience that's unlike any other.  As a provider of custom coatingservices, SilcoTek partners with each customer to ensure we deliver the best solution in an efficient and expeditious manner.

1. Request a quote and provide drawings or photos as necessary.

Our team will respond within one business day (usually within the hour) and ask for any additional information needed to issue an accurate quote.  We'll also give you shipping instructions along with an RA# for shipping your parts to our coating facility.

2. Receipt, review and order acknowledgement. 

Once received, your parts are inspected to ensure we got everything you sent.  We also photograph the parts for verification and traceability.  If there are any questions or 'red flags' before coating, our Customer Advocate will contact you to review your order and any potential concerns with processing.  Substrates listed on our material compatibilty chart as 'not treatable' will either be returned directly to you or along with your compatible parts after coating.  Once everything is confirmed, our customer service team sends you an order acknowledgement email with delivery date.

Note: SilcoTek takes special care to collaborate with all our customers and provide exceptional service that exceeds your expectations.  Our manufacturing system employs FIFO(first in, first out) and One-Piece-Flow methods for moving parts through.  The data show that these techniques are best for both speed and efficiency as well as minimizing potential handling damage or errors.  

While our ultimate goal is to reduce S.T.A.G. (ship time average goal) as much as possible, the nature of our CVD process means we cannot guarantee that necessary re-works won't occur.  For this reason, SilcoTek does not offer a formal expedite program.  Rest assured we understand the urgency of your parts and will do everything we can to coat them quickly and with the top-notch quality you've come to expect from us.

3. Surface preparation

SilcoTek uses proprietary surface preparation methods in order to ensure the best coating possible.  It is important to know that any surface imperfections like scratches, rough surfaces, or widely varying surface characteristics, will be highlighted by the coating process, not hidden.

4. Chemical vapor deposition coating process