CHALLENGE: 50’ x 4’ Aircraft Spar Tool would not hold vacuum, and a small quantity of production parts from the Tool was still required. Attempts to repair and extend the life of the mold thru various options had failed. If unable to repair the mold, the replacement cost would be $175,000, which was greater than […]
Case Study Challenge: Circular saw used to cut PEEK, glass-filled nylon and other materials experienced down-time, cut quality issues. After seeing the benefits of he Dyna-Tek mold release coatings on their extruding dies, ZL began to look for other areas in operations where the DT products could improve production. PROBLEM: One area was their cutting […]
PRODUCTION CHALLENGE. ZL Engineering Plastics came to Extreme Coating Solutions with two production challenges: Improve the quality of extruded sheet, rod and tube. Increase the wear life of the coating on the tooling dies. For years, ZL had tried various PTFE-based coatings, Chrome plated, and other options, in an effort to find a coating system […]
Extreme Coating Solutions, LLC is the new name for our established company formerly known as “LPF High Performance Coatings”. The name change was triggered when we spun off (sold) the powder coating division (and the LPF name was sold with it) at the beginning of 2017. New name, means new logo too! To do this, […]