Coatings by Substrate
Ceramics

AEROSOL REFRACTORY PAINTS

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BORON NITRIDE COATINGS

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COATINGS for CODING & MARKING

For coding / marking to over 2000 F (1100 C).  Adherent to metals and ceramics with thermal cycles.   Hard, Abrasion-Resistant.  High-temperature stable. Does not glaze, melt, run, become tacky or chalk off.  Water-based, like house paint

Codemarks are water-based paints that work on metal substrates from 1650 F [white paint] to over 2000 F [black paint] and on most all ceramic substrates to over 2000 F. These coatings can be applied to all substrates by most any painting technique.

Codemark Black             $250.00 /gallon

Codemark White            $205.00 /gallon     More Info

LK Ink is a ready-to-use, water-based, totally inorganic white ink/coating that, just on drying, forms a water-resistant, tough and abrasion-resistant coating/marking on all substrates. The LK Ink is a thin milk-like consistency -- ideal for painting/ coding / marking / identification to over 800 C (over 1475 F) on metal or ceramic substrates. Can even be used on thin, flexible metal sheets.

LK Ink             $150.00 /gallon        More Info     
                        5-gallon pail $675.00 (or $135.00/gallon)
              

Y
This water-based paint is a water-based suspension of 99.99% pure Yttrium Oxide, the most thermodynamically stable oxide available. Whenever metal purity is a prime consideration during melting and casting operations, yttria can be considered the most chemically resistant material available.   Type Y usage is limited to 1500 C with carbon in a vacuum and is not recommend for usage in air.

     More Info           Call for current price ... this paint is not available online due to the present unstable/fluctuating prices for Rare Earth Oxides.

YK Paint
This is a low viscosity, non-aqueous-based, yttrium oxide coating. Type YK readily penetrates porous and fibrous ceramic bodies. Compared to Type Y, the Type YK coating is somewhat softer and higher purity after outgassing [with Type YK containing only 0.3% glassy-carbon phase after heating] and also outgasses at a lower temperature of only 350 C – ideal for coating molds where minimum outgassing temperatures and amounts of volatiles are desired.  Type YK is not recommended for usage in air.

    More Info         Call for current price ... this paint is not available online due to the present unstable/fluctuating prices for Rare Earth Oxides.

Z-Guard
Produces a hard, abrasion and chemical resistant zirconia (ZrO2) coating that is protective to all ceramic bodies against most molten metals and corrosive environments to above 3200 F (1800 C). Z-GUARD may be applied to soft or fibrous structures with no special rigidizer to produce a more wear resistant surface layer which is also resistant to most high temperature reactions which may degrade the ceramic.

      More Info           $194.00 /gallon

Zircwash
Paintable Zirconium Oxide coating; silica free, gives high purity non-ferrous castings, utility to 1900 C.

     More Info            $199.00 /gallon
                                 $886.00/ 5-gallons