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Praxair Surface Technologies delivers more experience,
more innovation, more options and more support
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Get more with Praxair . . .

Customized answers. Praxair Surface Technologies EXTREME Protection™ and ProtectionPLUS™ family
of thermal spray coatings and laser overlays provides the ultimate in flexibility, ensuring we have the right
answer for your unique challenge.
Design and application support. Our coatings help bring out the best in your components, while you
always have the confidence of knowing your parts have been through real-world simulations.
Uniformity and repeatability. Whether your parts are produced in the Americas, Europe or Asia, you
know you’re getting consistent results you can rely on.
Innovation. Our scientists, renowned throughout the coating industry, rank among the most authoritative
sources in application techniques, always looking for new surface enhancement options.

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What does it mean to get more?
At Praxair, we go beyond the surface for individualized answers
to your toughest problems

At Praxair Surface Technologies, we understand that your customers’

requirements demand more. That’s why we’re dedicated to helping you
deliver more product life, more ways to reduce operating costs, more
Look for more
At Praxair Surface Technologies, we have more down to
ways to improve performance, more risk mitigation. Partner with us and
a science. Look for the “greater than” symbol (>) to find
you get more than protective coatings—you get complete access to our out how working with us helps you get more.
exclusive global network of resources.

EXCLUSIVELY MORE:
PRAXAIR’S INDUSTRY-LEADING EXTRAS
• Coating Design Optimization Unit
EXTREME Protection™ and ProtectionPLUS™ Coatings
• Operational Excellence System
• Product Discovery Labs

More than half a century Why does more matter?

of leadership When you get more, you can give more. Parts that include
Since the early 1950s, Praxair Surface Technologies has been partnering our advanced surface technologies help you improve
with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), roll builders and steel component efficiency, performance and life—all of which
company operations, and maintenance organizations to extend the life enhance the overall performance of your product and
cycle and performance of critical rolls and components. Our expertise the value you offer your customers while increasing your
profitability. More matters.
in wear-, corrosion- and thermal-resistant coatings has made us the
preferred supplier in the industry.

1904 More tradition

Concentrated Acetylene Company (later known as Prest-o-Lite) is formed, creating

The evolution of more headlights for early automobiles. Our work with acetylene would one day lead to
the discovery of today’s surface coating technology. We don’t just date back to the
beginning — we are the beginning.
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Wide Range
of Applications
for Steel
Producers
Blast Furnace
• Tuyeres
Cold Mill
• Bridle Rolls
• Deflector Rolls
• Mandrels
• Tensiometer Rolls
Finishing Line
• Bridle Rolls
• Deflector Rolls
• Flattening Rolls
• Leveler Rolls
• Mandrels
Galvanizing and Tinplating
• Bridle Rolls
• Deflector Rolls
• EGL Conductor Rolls
• ETL Conductor Rolls
• Furnace Rolls
• Pot Rolls
• Tower Rolls

Coatings for Furnace and Pot Rolls

You get more with Praxair Surface Technologies coatings for furnace rolls used in continuous annealing lines (CALs) and continuous galvanizing
lines (CGLs) and pot rolls used in the molten zinc pots on CGLs. Our EXTREME ProtectionE proprietary coatings reduce costs and increase
productivity by providing cost-effective solutions for pickup, abrasive wear, profile loss, roughness loss, tracking and other wear-related
challenges inherent in steel processing. Praxair’s wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings create and maintain the optimum surface and
surface roughness to extend the service life of critical rolls and prevent unplanned outages.

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 Coating Design Optimization Unit
More real-world component coating design and application support

The first step to finding the right answer for your needs is determining
not only what those needs are, but also how a surface coating can Real-world environmental
bring out the best in your component or part. That’s where our Coating
testing simulates:
Design Optimization Unit comes in. It works with your engineers to
• Abrasion and impact wear
integrate more than a half century of coating expertise. Partnering
with our Coating Design Optimization Unit from the beginning • Adhesion

ensures you get more produceable coatings, more protection, more • Bond strength
customization and more performance. • Corrosion
• Fatigue
Our team begins by identifying: • Galling/sliding
• Function of the coating (thermal insulation, wear/corrosion resistance, • Oxidation and extreme temperatures
etc.) • Particle and water erosion
• Geometry, composition and properties of the substrate • Thermal shock

• Environmental and production impact (corrosion, temperature and

operating environment)
We customize our answers to fit your individual problem.
For example, if wear and/or corrosion resistance is required
Once we’ve narrowed down the possible coating alternatives, we test at ambient or high temperature, we can tailor a coating to
each coating on your part in environmental simulations that replicate perform in either environment.
your everyday operating environment. When this exhaustive testing
process is complete, you’ll have more confidence knowing exactly how
coatings will perform on your part day in and day out.

1948 More explosive discoveries

Explorations into acetylene detonations lead to the discovery of a new groundbreaking flame-plating
process. The technique developed from this breakthrough — which uses a “detonation gun”— forms
the foundation of the modern thermal spray industry. To this day, we are the only company that can
offer D-Gun and Super D-Gun® coatings, both benchmarks of the industry.
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EXTREME ProtectionEand ProtectionPLUSE Coatings

More options for customized answers

There is no one coating answer to every surface problem. Your unique

problems require unique answers. That’s why we created our EXTREME Answers in action:
ProtectionE and ProtectionPLUSE lines of surface coatings.
We not only protect but also restore. We have in-house
Our EXTREME ProtectionE proprietary coatings are designed to provide services that can strip, restore and remachine worn
customizable answers you can’t get anywhere else. components.

Our ProtectionPLUSE coatings are used throughout the industry and

feature the additional, exclusive application techniques and knowledge-
base of Praxair Surface Technologies. In fact, we originally developed More coating options
and patented many of these methods and materials.
COATING SERVICES

Engineered for steel Corrosion-resistant coatings

Oxidation-resistant coatings
The steel industry presents unique challenges: Components need to
withstand extreme environmental, thermal and wear conditions at Release coatings
exceptionally high temperatures and pressures. That’s why our surface
Solid particle erosion-resistant coatings
enhancement solutions are designed with the toughest jobs in mind.
Our advanced technology is designed to help you: Thermal barrier coatings

• Extend product life of critical rolls Wear-resistant coatings

• Reduce maintenance costs
• Improve performance
• Increase productivity

1958 More exclusive innovations 1962 More flexibility

The innovations continue as we develop our exclusive plasma A breakthrough coating process, high-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF),
coating technique—which once again revolutionizes the thermal is developed that introduces powders of metals or cermets
coating industry, delivering an exceptionally versatile solution. into a high-temperature, high-velocity gas stream. The stream
then heats and propels them against a prepared surface. The
result is excellent wear and corrosion resistance.

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 Operational Excellence System
More uniformity, consistency and repeatability

From the initial conversation to the final inspection, the application of

your coating follows our strict Operational Excellence System. This
process guides our industry-leading quality control programs and
guarantees consistent, uniform results that are on time, every time.
At the core of Operational Excellence are Six Sigma quality tools and
a complete set of lean manufacturing techniques. Instead of batch
production, we focus on one-piece-flow pull production that improves
quality and shortens cycle and changeover times — which greatly
improves turntimes for your applications.
Operational Excellence also allows us to deliver uniform, repeatable
results you can rely on. You can be confident that whether your part is
coated in the Americas, Europe or Asia, the processes—and coatings—
are indistinguishable. More usable parts, less risk.

Vertical integration
No matter the part, or place in the
Praxair Surface Technologies controls the entire coating process from world, our Operational Excellence
receipt of your component to completed coated part. Not only do we System ensures you get industry-
manufacture the gases and powders used to make the coatings, but leading quality coatings.
we also invented many of the processes used to apply them.

1965-69 More global uniformity 1992 More efficiency

The first overseas production plants open in England, Japan We become the independent company you know today: Praxair
and Switzerland as our unique quality control process begins Surface Technologies. The change gives us greater control
to develop, ensuring uniformity and repeatability regardless of over raw materials and resources, enabling us to become the
the component or continent. first vertically integrated operation in the industry. In 1998,
ASM International recognized our Speedway (Indianapolis)
Laboratories as a historical landmark.
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 Product Discovery Labs
More innovative answers

At Praxair Surface Technologies, we have a long-standing tradition

of excellence in innovation. Many of the materials and processes in
use today throughout the industry began in our world-class Product
Discovery Labs. The focus of these labs is singular: develop next-
generation surface coating technologies that solve the performance
problems you face today and tomorrow.

Top research scientists

We provide access to the most renowned scientists in the coatings
industry. These highly qualified professionals have published extensively
and, in many cases, literally written the book when it comes to application
techniques.Working with a staff of experienced lab technicians, specialists
and research engineers, our scientists are continually developing new
coating processes and products that are designed to find real-world,
groundbreaking answers to even your toughest performance problems.

More discovery
Coating processes that are the foundation of today’s surface technologies
were invented by Praxair Surface Technologies, including: Ongoing testing is critical for discovering new ways to solve
your performance problems.
• Detonation gun (D-Gun) coating process*
• Super D-Gun® coating process*
• HVOF (high-velocity oxy-fuel) coating process
• Plasma spray coating process
• Tribomet® electrodeposition coating process*
* Exclusive, proprietary Praxair Surface Technologies process

2009 More capabilities

Praxair Surface Technologies expands its product and service offerings by acquiring
Sermatech International and its line of SermeTel®, SermaLoyTM and ShorCoat® high-
performance slurries. The partnership delivers coating options and capabilities
unmatched throughout the industry.
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What can more mean for you?
Let’s work together to find your answers

It starts with a conversation. It ends with an answer to even your toughest performance problems. The unmatched service, experience,
innovation and dedication between those two points? That’s more. We offer more support, more coatings, more knowledge, more
testing, more consistency. No one else even comes close. For answers to the tough problems, demand more.

Coating processes Inspecting and testing

• Cold Spray – LOXPlate® coating • Fluorescent penetrant
• Electrodeposition – TribometT coating • Gaging and dimensioning
• High-Performance Slurries • Profilometer
- SermaLon metallic ceramic polymers
®

- SermaGard® slurries
- SermeTel® metallic ceramics
Other service operations
• Abrasive blasting
• High-Power Laser Processing
• Aluminum oxide blasting
- Laser Cladding/Hardfacing
• Chemical stripping
- Laser Hardening
• Electrolytic stripping
- Laser Welding
• Gaging and dimensioning
• Thermal Spray Coatings
• Glass bead peening
- D-Gun and Super D-GunT coatings
• Grit blasting
- High-Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF)
• Mechanical stripping
- Plasma Spray
• On-site services
- Wire Arc Spray
• Sealing
• Shot peening
Finishing and machining
• Silicon carbide blasting
• Brushing
• Turnkey operations
• Honing
• Lapping
• Machining
• Polishing
• Precision grinding
• Sanding
• Super finishing
• Surface grinding
• Vibratory

Coating and other service options include, but are not limited to, those listed above. Capabilities listed not available at all production facilities.
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Primary Facilities
Brazil India South Korea Indianapolis, IN
Pinhais, Brazil Coimbatore, India Changwon, South Korea Tel. 317.240.2500
Tel. +55.41.3661.6200 Tel. +91.4255.324743 Tel. +82.55.260.2482
Biddeford, ME
Canada Italy United Kingdom Tel. 207.282.3787
Dorval, Quebec, Canada Fornovo, Italy Lincoln, England
Charlotte, NC
Tel. 514.631.2240 Tel. +39.0525.401704 Tel.+44.1522.878200
Tel. 704.921.5400
Saint Laurent, Quebec, Canada Monte Marenzo, Italy Southam, England
Tel. 514.333.0030 New Castle, PA
Tel. +39.0341.601111 Tel. +44.1926.81.2348
Tel. 724.598.1300
China
Novara, Italy Swindon, England
Changzhou, China Houston, TX
Tel. +39.0321.674803 Tel. +44.1.793.512.555
Tel. +86.519.8622.9000 Tel. 713.849.9474
France Japan Weston-super-Mare, England
Praxair Surface Technologies maintains
St. Etienne, France Kozuki, Japan Tel. +44.1934.411301 additional coating and administrative
Tel. +33.4.77.42.62.62 Tel. +81.790.88.0564 United States facilities not listed above.

Germany Okegawa, Japan Manchester, CT

Ratingen, Germany Tel. +81.48.5.91.0731 Tel. 860.646.0700
Tel. +49.2102.495.0 Singapore North Haven, CT
Schluechtern, Germany Singapore Tel. 203.287.2700
Tel. +49.6661.96780 Tel. +65.6861.8374

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