Sub-One Technology® has invented a revolutionary coating technology for depositing hard, smooth, pure coatings on the internal surfaces of a broad spectrum of products. The company’s patented InnerArmor® technology and coatings provide a broad array of new advantages and capabilities: they block corrosion, they minimize friction, wear, abrasion, erosion and fouling, they maximize flow, they reduce materials costs, they lower installation and maintenance costs, they maintain purity of contents and they protect the environment. All of this and more.
InnerArmor® applications range across a wide spectrum of industries. For example, virtually any function involving the handling or movement of fluids or gases can benefit. This includes everything from oil and gas to chemical processing, from pulp and paper to food processing, from medical to semiconductor, from public utilities to aerospace.
Many industries make extensive use of pipes, couplers, tanks, valves, cylinders, etc. through which fluids, gases and materials flow. Prior to InnerArmor®, various techniques attempted to protect, strengthen or enhance the internal-surface performance of such parts, but each method had basic limitations.
InnerArmor® eliminates all of those problems and produces a hard, smooth, corrosion-and erosion-resistant internal surface on a variety of base materials at substantially reduced cost.
The following are just a few of the industries in which InnerArmor® coating technology can bring improved performance and cost savings:
- Oil and Gas
- Automotive
- Chemical Processing
- Metals Production
- Industrial and Specialty Gas
- Semiconductor
- Food Processing
- Medical
- Geothermal
- Pulp and Paper
- Aerospace
- Public Utilities
In addition to enhancing existing applications, InnerArmor® coating technology offers the possibility of creating new families of products. For example, lower-cost stainless steel pipe can be coated to achieve the inner strength of higher-grade alloys. Perhaps future car engine pistons will glide on ultra-frictionless InnerArmor® coatings. Perhaps new drug delivery systems will be lined with pure, inert and bio-compatible InnerArmor® coatings. The possibilities are virtually limitless.
InnerArmor® coatings can combine multiple layers to deliver unique finely-tuned performance characteristics and may be created out of virtually anything that can be ionized. The technology is capable of depositing carbon-based coatings, metals and oxides. And the coatings may be either conductive or nonconductive. Titanium nitride, silicon carbide, silicon oxi-carbide and diamond-like carbon (DLC) films are but a few examples. InnerArmor® can also be applied at very high deposition rates, compared to external Plasma CVD methods, lowering processing costs.
