The Best Metalizing & Hard Banding Coating For Your Job

Superior Shot Peening & Coatings offers a special metalizing and hard banding process to coat commercial and industrial metal parts.

Metalizing combines the advantage of a mechanically-bonded coating with the ability to choose from several aesthetically pleasing metallic finishes. Hard Banding is the process of applying a rough, wear-resistant, band of tungsten carbide to a metal part to help protect the metal from wear in a specific area.

Why Should You Use Our Metalizing Coating Service?

- We service zinc, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, magnesium, and exotic metal parts.
- Low-heat process ensures the metal will not be deformed or warped.
- Creates strong, mechanically-bonded coating to your desired thickness.
- Produces a purer coating than galvanizing and will extend the life of the substrate.
- Cheaper option compared to painting.
- Provides corrosion protection for 50+ years.
- Ideal for offshore platforms, bridges, underwater concrete structures, and industrial plants with elevated temperatures.
- Available on-site or in-house in almost any weather condition.

Why Should You Use Our Hard Banding Coating Service?

Effective in the drilling tool industry on downhole tools.
Applied to an area of the tool that experiences high friction.
Economical way to eliminate wear and extend tool life.

Metalizing: Technical Information

The metal coating is typically applied with a twin-arc wire gun or a gas-powered gun. Any metal that can be made into a wire can be melted and sprayed onto a substrate in the twin-arc and gas-powered thermal-spray procedures. The result is that a wide variety of common and exotic metal substrates can be metalized.

Before being bonded to the substrate, the metal is first atomized by the metal-spray equipment. The atomized droplets are then propelled towards the substrate, where they flatten upon impact and bond to the substrate object. This gentle, low-heat process allows for a strong, mechanically-bonded coating of desired thickness to be applied to the substrate with no melting or warping of the target.

Cathodic protection is a popular use of metalizing. In this case, a metal that is more likely to lose electrons is used to coat a substrate metal that is less likely to lose electronics. When corrosion begins, the corrosion is more likely to form on the sacrificial anode than the protected cathode. This is a highly effective way of protecting a wide variety of metal equipment, particularly in soils and marine environments.

Hard Banding: Technical Information

A rough, wear-resistant band of tungsten carbide is applied to a metal part to help protect the metal from wear in a targeted area. This process is commonly used in the drilling tool industry on downhole tools. The band is applied by the metalizing thermal-spray process in an area on the tool that is expected to underdog high friction.