Northeast Coating Technologies Corporate Brochure

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Downtown Kennebunk, Maine, headquarters for NCT/TS North America

Welcome to Kennebunk, Maine

NCT/TS: A Global P artnership w ith a Fo cus on Your Needs

Northeast Coating Technologies, now known as NCT/TS, has become part of the HEF Group.

Together, we provide our customers with real solutions that are cost-effective, on-time and focused on your needs.

We offer a range of state-of-the-art surface treatments and finishing processes to match your product’s unique requirements, such as physical vapor deposition (PVD), plasma-enhanced CVD, Melonite® nitrocarburizing and Plasma ion nitriding. Just as important as our cutting-edge technology is the personalized, cost-effective and responsive service we provide customers across North America.

Surface engineering is a highly cost-effective method for improving product performance.

Whether you have a challenging new application or wish to enhance an existing product, we can work with you to find a solution.

The HEF Group, based in France, has been a global leader in the science of tribology (wear & friction) for more than 60 years. As part of the HEF Group, NCT/TS can now offer CERTESS PVD coatings & Melonite® ferritic nitro-carburizing process.

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Our Promise: Innovation, Service and Results Our skilled lab personnel perform rigorous product evaluation using scanning electron microscopy (top), surface metrology systems (left) and a scratch adhesion tester (right).

Though NCT/TS has the power of a global industrial network, we operate with the personal touch and attention to detail of a small business. We approach each project as your partner, with the shared objective of optimal results. We begin by taking the time to fully understand each customer, and we work with you to develop a cost-effective, timely plan to enhance your product’s performance.

We believe our greatest resource is our people, and that a positive work environment—where every employee can learn, improve and achieve—is key for solving complex problems. Our philosophy produces a knowledgeable, dedicated workforce that delivers the highest level of quality, efficiency and service in the industry.

Our industry-leading experts in tribology and surface science will work with you to identify your product’s challenges, including its primary wear and failure mode, and determine the most costeffective solution to maximize performance.

Even as we focus on our customers’ needs today, we continually innovate on the cutting edge of surface treatment solutions.

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MEDICAL When Quality & Consistency Are Critical When lives are on the line, there’s no margin for error in the quality of instruments or implants. That’s why medical and dental professionals demand the highest quality, most advanced surface treatments available. NCT/TS PVD and DLC treatments yield the highest quality, most dependable, consistent results available, whatever your needs: to improve corrosion resistance, reduce wear of moving parts, reduce the sliding friction of mating components, or apply coatings for identification or aesthetics.

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FIREARMS The Highest Caliber Surface Treatments In an industry as fiercely competitive as firearms, the need for heightened performance and reliability has never been greater. NCT/TS offers a complete range of advanced surface treatments to provide manufacturers with a competitive edge: improved wear resistance, corrosion resistance, erosion resistance, sliding friction and everyday durability.

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AUTOMOTIVE For Parts and Products that Run for Miles The automotive industry is faced with a unique challenge of improving fuel mileage, reliability and safety, without sacrificing power. Our advanced surface treatments allow OEMs many benefits, such as meeting rigorous weight reduction requirements, and reducing sliding friction to increase wear resistance, and help engines generate more horsepower with less fuel.

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AEROSPACE & ENERGY At the Forefront of an Industry in Transformation The emergence of renewables and revamping of traditional facilities are pushing manufacturers to deliver superior, innovative products. NCT/TS can help you meet this challenge with our line of advanced surface treatments.

PVD coatings improve the erosion resistance of components providing gains not realized from traditional coatings. For applications that suffer from friction, corrosion, fatigue, fretting or repeated impact, NCT/TS has a solution to provide substantial improvements in component life.

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P VD C OA T I N G (PHY SI CAL VA POR D E P OS I TI ON )

Versatile, Controllable, Reliable NCT/TS offers a wide variety of standard and custom PVD coatings for traditional or special applications, using two types of deposition processes: • 0ur M-Arc cathodic arc deposition technology deposits dense, well adhered PVD coatings ranging in thickness from 1 micron to 30 microns and mono or multi layer. • NCT/TS uses a patented sputtering process, which deposits dense, well adhered, smooth films.

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and have been applied to both metals and plastics.

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DLC C OA T I N G (DI AMOND - L I K E C A RB ON )

Frictionless and Unbreakable DLC coatings are the newest family of vacuumdeposited coatings. Their unique combination of low friction and extreme hardness excels at protecting high-wear interfaces for long periods of time against abrasion, impact, intermittent loading or lubrication, galling and fretting—even in applications with minimal lubrication.

The patented technology used by NCT/TS to deposit our DLC coatings enables us to produce the highest quality, most consistent DLC coatings available, and to interlayer PVD and DLC coatings with ease and precision.

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PL AS MA N I T RI D I N G Extreme Toughness to Assure Success The plasma ion nitriding process imparts a hard, wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant layer that will protect your part better against fatigue and abrasion. With the plasma ion process, you can control the nitride layer composition and the compound (or white) layer growth and composition.

In addition, the ability to selectively case-harden a part at lower temperatures than with other nitriding processes allows you more flexibility in your design.

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SA LT B AT H N I T RI D I N G Unrivaled Strength and Corrosion Resistance The MeloniteÂŽ QPQ processÂŽ (MelonizingÂŽ) is a salt bath nitrocarburizing process that produces an extremely hard, uniform layer consisting of iron, chromium, molybedenum and other nitride-forming elements. It has unrivaled resistance to wear, seizure, and especially corrosion, and can withstand operating temperatures nearing 1,000 degrees. It is the ideal option for products that endure the most brutal conditions, undergo repetitive use, or simply need to be a class apart in longevity and toughness.

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Maine Location 105 York Street Kennebunk, Maine 04043 Telephone: (207) 985-3232 Fax: (207) 985-4416 NortheastCoating.com Midwest Sales Office Telephone: (937) 938-9815 Fax: (937) 999-4071