Other Boron Nitride Coatings
These coatings are in addition to our best sellers. You can buy directly from ZYP Coatings and have shipped to your location anywhere in the world. If you are in the US or Canada, you can order from this website. Contact us for volume pricing or international shipping information. Learn more about the Family of BN Products.
BN-TPC
BN TPC was specially formulated for coating transition plates used with Wagstaff Billet Casters. The BN TPC is a water-based, near-neutral-pH coating that is pre-diluted to the proper level for applying onto transition plates. BN TPC is color-tinted pink (non-permanent) for visibility while first coating.
- One-coat system for transition plates
- Ready-to-use: no dilution needed
- Pink tinted as a visual aid in application
- Provides ultra-smooth surface finish
- Apply like ordinary housepaint
- Safe, water-based
- Easy clean-up with water
- Transition Plates
Link to PDF datasheet: BN-TPC
BN Lubricoat Paste
BN Lubricoat Paste is the same “workhorse” formulation of our BN-Lubricoat but available in paste consistency. Thus, this version can be applied in thick layers or diluted with water to make a paint usable for all liquid metal transfer components to yield excellent nonwetting/release with aluminum, magnesium, zinc and other nonferrous metals and alloys. Also good with glass-forming.
- Totally Non-Wetted by Molten Aluminum, Magnesium, Zinc and Their Drosses
- Acts Like Teflon® to Molten Metal
- Protects Ceramics, Metals and Graphite
- Maintenance is Reduced and Operator Satisfaction Maximized
- Applied like Spackling Compound
- Safe, Water-Based, No VOC’s
- Molten Metal Release
- Anti-stick/Lubricant
- Barrier Layer
- Filling gaps/holes
- Braze Stop-Off
Link to PDF datasheet: BN-Lubricoat-Paste
BN Lubricoat ZA Paste
BN Lubricoat ZA Paste has been developed as a high-viscosity, highly-BN-loaded water-based paste that can be applied as-is or (most often) can be diluted to coat all substrates that are compatible with pH-Acidic (like lemon juice) conditions. The “ZA” paste is usable to 1000 C in air and generally forms a tough, relatively abrasion-resistant, well-bonded surface.
- Totally Non-Wetted by Molten Aluminum, Magnesium, Zinc and Their Drosses
- Protects Ceramics, Metals and Graphite
- Can Be Used “as-is” or Diluted as Desired with Water
- Safe, Water-Based, No VOC’s
- Protection from Molten Metal in Erosion Areas
- Filling Gaps/Holes
- Molten Metal Pumps (such as Electromagnetic Pumps) – Coating Ceramic Housings, Gaskets, etc.
Link to PDF Datasheet: BN-Lubricoat-ZA-Paste
BN Releasecoat PM
BN Releasecoat-PM is a concentrated paint that is fully-loaded with Boron Nitride. PM provides a thick, dilutable paint in a paste-like consistency, which can be modified by simply adding water. Given this concentrated form, PM saves on shipping costs. Typical dilution is 2 parts water to 1 part concentrate. When diluted PM is a relatively-soft, washcoat-type of coating.
BN Releasecoat-PM provides excellent nonwetting and release with aluminum, magnesium, zinc and other nonferrous metals and alloys.
- Perfect for top coating over thermal insulating coatings.
- Provides “cosmetic”/mirror-like surface finish with excellent mold release
- Ideal for low-draft, high-drag regions for wheel casting
- Easily applied by air spraying on to hot or cold molds
- Safe, water-based
- Permanent Molds
- Low Pressure or Gravity Die casting
Link to PDF datasheet: BN-Releasecoat-PM
ZBN Release
ZBN Release contains Zirconium Oxide (ZrO2) for thermal insulation along with Boron Nitride (BN) for best mold release with permanent mold or low pressure casting. With ZBN Release, only one single coating provides all you need.
ZBN Release is ready-to-use or can be diluted with water if needed.
- Thermally insulating with mold release
- Provides nonwetting, non-stick, release, lubrication
- Can be used as is or diluted with water as desired
- Water-based, safe and easy-to-clean-up
- Permanent Molds
- Low Pressure or Gravity Die casting
Link to PDF datasheet: ZBN Release
BNW Paste
BNW is a near-neutral-pH paste or concentrate that can be applied in thick layers or diluted with water to yield relatively-soft, washcoat-type of coating or a releasecoating. This paste has a lower BN content which still provides excellent nonwetting and release with aluminum, magnesium, zinc and other nonferrous metals and alloys. Paste has no outgassing other than water when heated.
- Can be applied by troweling as well as brushing … or diluted to use for air-spraying or dipping
- Use “as-is” as a trowelable paste or dilute with water at a 2:1 water-to-paste or even greater level to make a great BN releasecoating
- Releasecoating can be used as a topcoating over thermal insulating coatings to give mirror-like finishes and excellent mold release
- Ideal for use on mild steel, cast iron, and all acidic-pH-sensitive materials
- Totally non-wetted by molten aluminum, magnesium, zinc and their drosses
- Safe, water-based
- Permanent Molds
- Barrier Layer
- Filling gaps/holes
- Ring Seal (when diluted)
Link to PDF datasheet: BNW-Paste
BNA Paste
BNA Paste is a non-aqueous-based or solvent-based paste that is usable in all atmospheres and can be applied in thick layers or brushed like house paint It yields excellent nonwetting and release with aluminum, magnesium, zinc and other nonferrous metals and alloys.
- Useful for troweling as well as brushing
- Prevents corrosion with mild steel, cast iron, and all corrosion-prone materials
- Provides non-wetting/release with molten aluminum, magnesium, zinc and their drosses
- Prevents reactions between materials
- Anti-stick/Release
- Barrier Layer
- Filling gaps/holes
Link to PDF datasheet: BNA Paste
White Silk
White Silk Boron Nitride is an aerosol spray can that is ideal for applying a thin BN layer to act as a protective barrier layer to prevent diamond-matrix or metal-bond-powder from sticking to or reacting with graphite molds/plungers/punches at temperatures to >1100 C (>2012 F). For other uses, White Silk is great for spraying thin BN layers for most any purpose.
- Fast Drying, Solvent Based, Easy-to-Use
- Provides Economical, Teflon®-like HighTemperature Release
- Ideal for Diamond-Drill-Bit Manufacturing
- Barrier Layer with Graphite
- Anti-Stick/Anti-Sieze
- Providing Release
- “Dry Film” Lubricant
Link to PDF datasheet: White Silk
SEG Aerosol
SEG Aerosol is a super enhanced graphite aerosol spray that improves graphite’s performance as a high-temperature, anti-stick release agent/lubricant — FAR SUPERIOR to graphite alone. SEG Aerosol has high thermal conductivity and is usable in any environment from room temperature to over 900 C (1652 F).
- Far Superior to Graphite Alone
- Extends Use to Over 900 C versus < 400 C for Graphite Itself
- Fast Drying, Solvent Based• Excellent Thermal Conductivity
- Contains no Silicones nor Disulfides
- Apply like House Paints
- Dry-Film Lubricant (DFL)
- Reducing Friction, even in Vacuum
- Anti-Stick — Providing Release/Lubrication
- Barrier Layer
Link to PDF datasheet: SEG Aerosol
SEG Aerosol Brushable
ZYP Coating’s “SEG Aerosol Brushable” is the same formulation that is used in our SEG (Super Enhanced Graphite) Aerosol spray-can … but is in BULK (paint) form, sold by the gallon. The SEG Aerosol Brushable can be applied by brushing, traditional air-spraying means, or dipping. Usable in any environment from room temperature to over 900 C (1652 F). The paint provides excellent “dry-film” lubrication. SEG Aerosol Brushable can be diluted with Acetone for somewhat faster drying or with Ethyl Alcohol for somewhat slower drying.
- Far Superior to Graphite Alone
- Fast Drying, Solvent Based
- Contains no Silicones nor Disulfides
- Dilutable with Acetone and/or Ethanol
- Apply like House Paints
- Dry-Film Lubricant (DFL)
- Reducing Friction, even in Vacuum
- Anti-Stick — Providing Release/Lubrication
- Barrier Layer
Link to PDF datasheet: SEG Aerosol Brushable
JK SD
JK SD is a specially formulated solvent-based, very-low-viscosity BN coating to allow dipping onto “blanks” to yield very thin layers that can accommodate the extreme stretching of superplastic forming operations. The uniform-sized BN particles give good adhesion and lubrication over the superplastic-forming and quick-plastic-forming (SPF/QPF) cycle. The consistency of JK SD allows its use for applying thin layers by air-spray as well as dipping.
- Provides lubrication over the entire SPF-QPF cycle
- Flows with the metal
- Permits easy removal/release after forming
- Minimizes coating build-up on dies
- Ideal for dipping … OK also for air-spraying
- Solvent-based (Ethanol), Fast-Drying, Flammable
- Coating metal sheets that are to be SPF-QPF processed
- For any parts that are to be coated by dipping or air-spraying
Link to PDF datasheet: JK_SD
BN Cera Patch
BN Cera Patch provides a ready-to-use, water-based ceramic putty patching material that can be filled into any fissure, crack or defect in refractory materials to achieve nonwetting with molten aluminum. This premium repair product is based on Boron Nitride and is completely free of Refractory Ceramic Fiber (RCF). BN Cera Patch is engineered to expand to fill damaged areas and does not sinter, shrink or crack with use. Adheres well to all refractory surfaces, dense or porous. Applicable for all environments to 800 C (1472 F) for continuous use, and to 1000 C (1832 F) for intermittent use. Ready-to-use after applying with putty knife or trowel followed by drying. No special cure is needed.
- Premium Product: Utilizes Boron Nitride for best nonwetting and is non-reacting with molten aluminum and its alloys or drosses
- Smoothly applies and spreads easily; dries in minutes at room temperature
- Expands to fill the damaged areas: does not sinter, shrink or crack with thermal cycling
- Excellent nonwetting, strength, hardness, and toughness that prevents molten aluminum from reacting or undercutting any coated or filled regions
- Stops metal penetration
- Long life of the repaired areas due to non-reaction/non-wetting
- High adhesion to all refractory types (dense or porous) without chipping or flaking
- Fills fissures, cracks, seams and joints • Not sensitive to freezing
- Repairing and patching cracks, fissures, ruts, pock marks, joints, defects in molten-aluminum- transport refractories
- Preventing adhesion and sticking of residual metal in cavities and cracks
Link to PDF Datasheet: BN Cera Patch
Dental Cast Release
Dental Cast Release provides a water-based paint that can be used to apply a thin Boron Nitride (BN) layer onto typical ceramic crucibles or molds — such as special ceramics good to 1550 °C or inserts of graphite or glassy carbon, as well as fused silica/quartz crucibles. The crucibles are generally used for vacuum melting and casting of specialty alloys such as “high fusing gold” alloys, cobalt-chrome, nickel-chrome, and other non-precious metal alloys for crowns or bridges. This new easy-to-use finger-pump sprayer allows application of BN paint onto most any surface, substrate, crucible, or mold.
- Easy to see contrasting blue color
- Ready-to-use finger-pump sprayer
- Water-based, non-flammable, non-hazardous
- Anti-stick for easy release – eliminates residues
- Extends crucible/mold lifetime
Perfect for easy release of dental alloy castings using ceramic crucibles/molds or graphite/glassy-carbon liners.
Link to the PDF datasheet: Dental Cast Release
Link to Helpful Information: Dental Cast Release Information
BN TAPA Screen Printing Paste
A ready-to-use water-based, totally inorganic, pH-Acidic (like lemon juice) white paste that
is designed to produce a tough, flexible, abrasion-resistant and water-resistant coating of Boron Nitride on all substrates – cloths, metals, ceramics and graphite. BN TAPA is particularly designed for applying to cotton, cotton-polyester or ceramic fabrics or cloths.
BN TAPA can be applied by trowel, spatula, putty knife, squeegee or paint brush. Cure the applied coating at approximately 130 C if water insolubility is desired. The coating itself is usable to over 1652 F (over 900 C). Thinner coatings give the best results.
- Adherent to most all materials; withstands thermal cycles
- Water insoluble after heating to approx. 130 C for <= 1 hr
- Minimal outgassing on heatup, with water vapor as the evolved species
- High temperature stability: does not glaze, melt, run, become tacky or lose adherence
- Easily applied, like house paint
- Water-based; utensils are readily cleaned up with water
- Coating cotton or polyester fabrics, and safety cloths
- Coating ceramic cloths/fabrics or heat-resistant textiles, tapes, felts, or pads for use at high temperatures
- Providing a water-insoluble Boron Nitride coating on a substrate
Link to PDF datasheet: BN-TAPA Screen Print Paste
BN ZAPA Screen Printing Paste
A ready-to-use water-based, totally inorganic, pH-Acidic (like lemon juice) white paste that
is designed to produce a tough, flexible, abrasion-resistant and water-resistant coating of Boron Nitride on all substrates – cloths, metals, ceramics and graphite. BN ZAPA is a paste with Zirconium Oxide binder and is particularly designed for applying to cotton, cotton-polyester or ceramic fabrics or cloths.
BN ZAPA can be applied by trowel, spatula, putty knife, squeegee or paint brush. Cure the applied coating at approximately 130 C if water insolubility is desired. The coating itself is usable to over 1652 F (over 900 C). Thinner coatings give the best results.
- Adherent to most all materials; withstands thermal cycles
- Water insoluble after heating to approx. 130 C for <= 1 hr
- Minimal outgassing on heatup, with water vapor as the evolved species
- High temperature stability: does not glaze, melt, run, become tacky or lose adherence
- Easily applied, like house paint
- Water-based; utensils are readily cleaned up with water
- Coating cotton or polyester fabrics, and safety cloths
- Coating ceramic cloths/fabrics or heat-resistant textiles, tapes, felts, or pads for use at high temperatures
- Providing a water-insoluble Boron Nitride coating on a substrate
Link to PDF datasheet: BN ZAPA Screen Printing Paste
RepelKote
RepelKote is an economical water-based Boron Nitride coating that repels molten Aluminum and prevents adhering and sticking to transport refractories. The coating is designed to be diluted with water as desired. RepelKote is compatible with mild steel and cast iron substrates as well as ceramics.
- Economical Coating that Repels Molten Metal
- Provides Release/Non-Wetting/Non-Sticking with Molten Aluminum and its Drosses
- Good Adherence to All Substrates
- Readily Dilutable to 2:1 Water-to-Coating or more
- Easily Applied, Like Ordinary Housepaint
- Water-Based, Safe, Easy to Clean Up
- Where economy is foremost
- All molten metal transport components.
- Whenever a diluted coating is desired.
- For ease of release of metal from substrates after flowing/casting
Link to PDF datasheet: RepelKote
BN Pyrrhos
BN Pyrrhos is a light gray, water-based coating that is adherent to metal and ceramic substrates, usable to over 800 C (1472 F).
- Tough, adherent light gray coating
- Abrasion resistant after drying and at use temperatures
- Works on carbon steel, stainless steel, and ceramic
- Provides Boron Nitride non-reactivity/non-wetting
- Inhibits corrosion
- Silicone-emulsion based binder
- No primer coating required
- No “heat cure” required; ready to use on applying and drying
- Safe, water-based, easy to use and cleanup
- No “HAZ” shipping needed
- Increases lifetime and improves performance for high-temperature materials
- Reduces reactions/interactions of gases, slags, etc. with substrates
Link to the PDF Datasheet: BN Pyrrhos