In the commercial segment of our market, we service power utilities, automotive component manufacturers, machinery rebuilders, sputtering target manufacturers, paper tube manufacturers, corrugated paper machine manufacturers, magnetic materials manufacturers and many others. There is no real limit to the potential for the application of thermal spray in the marketplace because things wear out in any industrial process, and performance can always be improved by applying the correct coating.

Coatings used in this segment includes nearly all of the thermal spray coatings :

• chrome carbide applied with HVOF for the power utilities (among other coatings),
• stainless steel using electric arc for the machinery rebuilders,
• pure silver using the combustion wire process for the sputtering target manufacturers,
• tungsten carbide cobalt with HVOF for the paper tube folks and the magnetic materials people (replacing hard chrome),
• and a large variety of components are repaired with various arc spray alloys and aluminum is sprayed on many components as a rust preventive.