Aesthetic Finishing for Industrial OEM

Our standard passivation turnaround is 14 days, with 7-day and 3-day expedited options for vessel maintenance windows and urgent marine builds. We can process passivation and Cerakote in sequence in-house, eliminating multi-vendor coordination delays. Over 20,000 parts processed with zero quality issues means your marine hardware ships ready for service the first time.

Yes. Hydraulic fittings on agricultural equipment face external chemical exposure from fertilizers and herbicides while enduring vibration and pressure cycling during field operation. Polymer coating provides flexible corrosion protection that survives these combined stresses. The coating also resists hydraulic fluid contact on external surfaces, preventing the corrosion and pitting that leads to fitting failures and costly hydraulic leaks during critical planting and harvest operations when equipment downtime is most expensive.

Yes. We coat sprayer booms, nozzle bodies, fittings, and irrigation hardware that face constant moisture and chemical exposure. Passivation for stainless steel components and chemical conversion for aluminum parts ensure proper substrate preparation before Cerakote topcoat application. This multi-layer approach provides comprehensive corrosion protection for equipment that operates in perpetually wet conditions.

Yes. Elite Series Cerakote combines the 4,000 cycles per mil abrasion resistance with a ~0.11 coefficient of friction, providing both wear protection and dry lubrication on sliding surfaces. At 0.5-2 mils thickness, the coating preserves the clearances on precision slides, linear rails, and bearing journals that thicker coatings would close up. The dry lubrication eliminates the need for wet lubricants that attract contamination in dusty or dirty environments.

Cerakote does not offer direct Pantone matching because the ceramic-polymer coating chemistry produces color differently than printing inks and paint systems that Pantone references. However, we achieve very close matches to Pantone targets by using spectrophotometer measurement of the Pantone chip and selecting or blending Cerakote colors to minimize Delta E. For most applications, the resulting match at Delta E 1.5 or better is indistinguishable from the Pantone target to the naked eye.