Hard coat

 ITI Energy, and Californian-based Sub-One Technology are to jointly develop a new interior surface coating.  The technology will, for the first time, allow an ultra-smooth, hard, diamond-like carbon film to be used in a range of applications in the oil & gas, utility, food processing and pharmaceutical industries. 

Although high performance coatings are already used widely on exterior surfaces, none have proved adaptable to give a low-cost means of protecting interior surfaces. The technology being developed by the two companies, however,  promises to address this issue. They say that it has the potential to at least double the existing in-service life expectancy of high-wear critical components and provide a significant improvement in fluid and gas flows by delivering a step change in erosion and corrosion resistance.

Sub-One will establish a new European operations base in Scotland to work with ITI Energy to further develop the technology and to commercialise it in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.