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Coating selection should not start with a coating name. It should start with the part, the operating conditions, and the way that part fails or wears in service. Yet engineers and buyers frequently default to a familiar specification or accept a vendor's standard recommendation without evaluating whether it actually fits the application. Advanced Coating Technologies […]

Every coated part that fails in the field can usually be traced back to a mismatch between the coating's properties and the application's actual demands. Not a defective coating. Not a bad substrate. A selection problem. At Advanced Coating Technologies, we see this pattern: an engineer or buyer specifies a coating based on familiarity or […]