Dedicated Mud Rotor Coating Cell

HOUSTON - Nov. 25, 2014 - PRLog -- FW Gartner, a business unit of Curtiss Wright, and a Houston mainstay in the coatings business since 1923, has recently upgraded its facility to incorporate a dedicated mud rotor production coating cell. Employing the latest technologies and LEAN manufacturing elements to ensure the most efficient and cost effective process, the cell includes the ability to process new and used mud rotors.

The cell includes a 30’ (9 meter) chemical stripping bath dedicated to treating existing tungsten carbide coatings from used rotors. The tank is capable of stripping multiple rotors simultaneously and has been designed to use non-toxic, non-hazardous and environmentally safe stripping solutions. Over the course of the past few years, FW Gartner has also developed partners that ensure the waste stream is disposed of safely and conscientiously.

The dedicated mud rotor coating booth is designed to ensure maximum versatility. Capable of coating components up to 50’ (16 meter) long, it is equipped with multiple High Velocity coating systems to ensure all customer specifications and requirements can be met.

Latest technology HVOF/HVAF Systems

The booth includes two HVOF systems for operation with either liquid or gaseous fuels as well as the latest generation HVAF system. The tungsten carbide coating application process is fully optimized to ensure that the coatings produced with any HV device exceed the customer’s metallurgical and surface finish quality expectations.

Advanced Polishing Techniques

Adjacent to the thermal spray booth is the mud rotor polisher which is cable of polishing 30’ (9 meter) between centres. Together with the optimized coating application and using specific diamond polishing abrasives of multiple geometries and grades, FW Gartner is able to polish coated mud rotors to finishes lower than 6-8μi.

For further information, or to request a quotation, please visit the FW Gartner website (www.FWGTS.com), send an e-mail (info@fwgts.com), call (713-225-0010), or just come and see them at their Pearland, TX facility.

FW Gartner Thermal Spraying provides thermal spray and surface engineering technology to extend the service life of components and systems operating in severe service environments including the latest in HVAF Technology, Laser Cladding, PTA Cladding and QA/QC Inspection and Laboratory Testing. Approvals include ISO 9001:2008.

Surface Technologies is a Division of Curtiss-Wright  a global innovative company that delivers highly engineered, critical function products and services to the commercial, industrial, defense and energy markets. Building on the heritage of Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, Curtiss-Wright has a long tradition of providing reliable solutions through trusted customer relationships. The company employs approximately 10,000 people worldwide.