Printing & Digital Printing

PLASMA 600 SERIES

Coatings from our PLASMA 600 series are ceramic, and provide excellent wear and corrosion-resistance.

Benefits: 

Excellent wear and corrosion-resistance.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications requiring corrosion and wear resistance.

PLASMA 700 SERIES

Coatings from our PLASMA 700 series offer excellent release of adhesives and rubber.

Benefits: 

Provides high traction, excellent web tracking and moderate wear resistance.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications requiring traction and wear resistance.

PLASMA 800 SERIES

The 800N series is a smooth, slick, tough coating which derives its durability from a combination of hardness, resiliency, and low permeability.

Benefits: 

The 800LI series is a traction coating offers a high coefficient of friction without the use of silicone.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.

PLASMA 900 SERIES

Coatings from our PLASMA 900 series have excellent release of adhesives and rubber, and demonstrate high traction, web tracking, and abuse resistance with an ambient cure.

Benefits: 

Excellent release of adhesives and rubber, and demonstrate high traction, web tracking, and abuse resistance with an ambient cure. They are applicable on-site at your facility.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of on-site applications.

Plasma Dragon Elite

The Draon Elite coating is a work horse coating with excellent release properties.

Benefits: 

The Draon Elite coating is a work horse coating with excellent release properties.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.

Plasma Spray

In this process we use various gasses that are ignited by an electric arc. Temperatures can rise up to 30,000° F while the part temperature remains at less than 200°F.

Benefits: 

Particle velocity is greater than in the other four systems. One of the benefits of using this system is the high heat, which can process materials with high melting points (including ceramics).

Best Used For: 

Utilized to apply metal and ceramic based coatings.

Plasma Transferred Arc

We manufacture and utlize plasma transferred arc welding or cladding systems to provide wear and corrosion resistant coatings or claddings. 

Benefits: 

Provide a protective wear layer or rebuild parts back to original dimensional integrity.

Best Used For: 

This technology is used to rebuild surfaces back to original dimensional integrity.

Plating

Plating often involves two process materials and/or steps where the first material bonds to the base material and serves as the primer for finish plating.

Benefits: 

A wide range of surface property enhancements.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.

Powder Coat

The powder coat process is used in many of our polmyer coating processes.

Benefits: 

Polymer applied coatings.

Best Used For: 

Wide range of polymer coating applications.

Press Rollers

Press rolls are used in a wide variety of industries and applications.

Benefits: 

These rollers are made out of many different substrates and coverings or coatings.

Best Used For: 

Press Rollers

Pressure Rollers

Pressure rolls are used in the corrugating industry and are typically chrome or hard faced rolls. Often times these rolls are also crowned for deflection.

Benefits: 

Increase machine speeds and longer service life.

Best Used For: 

Pressure Rollers

Quality Assurance

Our quality department and process is ISO 9001 compliant and in some plants certified.

Benefits: 

We follow a rigid PPAP process for new product design and on-boarding.

Best Used For: 

Quality program management.

Re-Grinding

Re-grinding is often done to remove existing plating, for example chrome plating, from converting rollers and industrial parts due to scratches, dents, and existing worn areas.

Benefits: 

Remove existing material due to scratches, dents, and existing worn areas.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.

Re-Journaling

Re-journaling rollers is often done as a repair on an existing rollers. The existing journal is removed and a new journal is machined and welded into place.

Benefits: 

Re-store to original and critical dimensions; thus reducing replacement costs.

Best Used For: 

Journal Repair

Re-shelling

Re-shelling is considered if the outer shell is damaged or has experienced internal corrosion, and it’s possible to cut off the other shell and re-shell.

Benefits: 

Reduce costs in repair or replacement situations.

Best Used For: 

Heat Transfer and Chill Rolls

Release & Cleanability

Certified DuPont Licensed Industrial Applicator (DLA), user of Whitford coatings, and we blend our own, resulting in leading the industry in release coating services for a variety of industries.

Benefits: 

Non-stick and release properties on surfaces.

Best Used For: 

Our coatings reduce the clean up and build-up of such materials as starches, paints, adhesives, latex, rubber, food, paper, ice, sugar, resins, tapes, inks.

Reverse Tapers (concave crowns)

Spreader rollers’ grooving can take many forms including: herringbone pattern, chevron groove pattern, and reverse tapers (also known as concave crowns).

Benefits: 

Custom finish solutions.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.

Ribbon Rollers

Ribbon rollers are found in the printing industry and often times are coated with plasma coatings to improve roller performance and extend the service life.

Benefits: 

Extend service life.

Best Used For: 

Ribbon Rollers

Rollers Crowning

Roll crowning is intended to ensure proper web alignment and helps minimize the effects of deflection.

Benefits: 

Minimize the effects of deflection.

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.

Rollers Grooving

Roller grooving is available in herringbone, chevron, and spiral groove patterns.

Benefits: 

Improved web handling; wrinkle release

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.

Rollers Run Out

Roller run out is a measurement of the roller’s surface roundness compared to the bearing surface.

Benefits: 

Determine roller uniformity

Best Used For: 

Wide range of problem solving applications and analysis.

Sealing Rollers

We offer a wide variety of covering and coatings for sealing rollers including: non-stick, corrosion-resistant, and high temperature-resistant solutions.

Benefits: 

Non-stick, corrosion-resistant, and high temperature-resistant surface properaties.

Best Used For: 

Sealing Rollers

Shaft Repairs

Wear and abarasion resistant coatings can be applied to shafts. Shafts can also be rebuilt or “remanufactured” to original dimensions using cladding technologies.

Benefits: 

Reduce costs in repair or replacement situations.

Best Used For: 

Shaft Repair

Side Face and Journals

Side faces and journals on rollers need increased protection,reburbishment and repair.

Benefits: 

Extend service life.

Best Used For: 

A wide range of industries and applications

Sizing Pull Rollers

Sizing Pull Rollers

Best Used For: 

Sizing Pull Rollers

Sleeving & Re-boring

Sleeving and re-boring are often done on journals where a critical journal diameter is worn. A sleeve is machined and put in place within the roller’s bearing.

Benefits: 

Reduce costs in repair or replacement situations.

Best Used For: 

Journal Repair

Slitter Blades

Slitter Blades

Solvent Wipe Testing

Solvent wipe testing is one of the services we offer as part of our chemical resistance property testing.

Benefits: 

Chemical Resistance Property Testing.

Best Used For: 

Wide range of problem solving applications and analysis.

Spider Wheels

Spider wheels are used to separate product.

Benefits: 

Wheel coatings are low-friction, wear-resistant, easily-cleaned, and reduce ink built-up to improve application.

Best Used For: 

Used in the printing industry.

Spiral Grooving for Air Entrapment Removal

Spreader rollers’ grooving can take many forms including: spiral grooving, chevron groove pattern, reverse taper configuration, and grooved rubber covers.

Benefits: 

Improved web handling; wrinkle release

Best Used For: 

A wide variety of applications.