Greenkote®, the international developer and provider of leading edge anticorrosion coatings, has announced it is entering into a joint venture with Belgian coating company Duroc N.V – with the new affiliation making Greenkote® coating capabilities directly available to the European Union and surrounding regions.
Commentating on the joint venture, Mark Gore, CEO at Greenkote® PLC, said: “We are extremely pleased to be partnering with Duroc because they are one of Europe’s most experienced and respected providers of metal coating services. Having Greenkote® coating capabilities installed directly in their Antwerp facility will enable European customers to get our anticorrosion coatings much more quickly and easily. It will also significantly extend Greenkote® coverage, adding to the facilities we currently have in the UK and Italy.”
Maarten Van Bercklaer, managing director at Durco added: “Greenkote® will be an important addition to Duroc’s line-up of metal protection capabilities. Our company focuses specifically on providing surface treatments for fasteners and small bulk parts, and Greenkote®’s thermal diffusion technology addresses those categories perfectly.”
In the coming months, the companies will be installing major new Greenkote® equipment in Duroc’s Antwerp facility to produce the advanced thermal diffusion coatings. The companies are already entering discussions and doing project assessments with European customers who are interested in Greenkote® coatings.
Greenkote® anticorrosion coatings serve a broad range of industries – from automotive and rail to offshore and construction – in which products are exposed to the weather and harsh and extreme corrosive environments. These coatings meet and exceed numerous international corrosion protection standards such as C5 and over 3,000 hours of standardised salt spray testing.
Greenkote® can be applied to many types of metal parts, from threaded fasteners to stamped and cast pieces, in sizes from 5mm to 2m. In addition to superior corrosion protection, these unique coatings also provide longer wear, better adhesion and more conformal coverage, which makes the coatings well suited to complex 3D geometries like threaded parts.
The Greenkote® name derives from the fact that the coatings are also uniquely eco-friendly. They are applied by a patented zinc-based dry thermal diffusion process that requires no hazardous chemicals and produces no toxic by-products. The absence of acids from Greenkote® processing also eliminates hydrogen embrittlement, a metal failure associated with many other coatings.
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