Products & Services

We can provide DLC coatings on a range of surfaces including:

  • Metals such as stainless steels
  • Tungsten carbide
  • Aluminium
  • Ceramics
  • Plastics (those that cross-link under ion bombardment)

Diameter has DLC coated surfaces for a wide variety of products, touching on every industry sector.

See table of sectors and products we can coat:

 

Sector

Products

Beneficial Characteristics

Diameter coating advantages

Engineering Manufacture

  • Inserts

  • Milling tools

  • Boring heads and tools

  • Turning tools

  • Drills

  • Taps

  • Saw blades

  • Gear cutters

  • Increases component life

  • Reduces waste products (swarf)

Improved performance over competing products, see report on internal experimentation

Biomedical

  • Orthopaedic implants

  • Transcutaneous prostheses

  • Stents

  • Bypass conduits

  • Drug delivery

  • Surgical instruments

  • Dental filling points

  • Biocompatibility

  • Anti-thrombogenic

  • Wear resistance

  • Lubricious surface

  • Inhibit microbial colonisation

  • Inert characteristic

Diameter has DLC coated knee prostheses for patients in the UK. The patients were allergic to un-coated knee prostheses and DLC coating was the only option.

 

Diameter has patents relating to DLC in the biomedical sector

Automotive & Machinery

  • Valve trains

  • Cam shafts

  • Rotating and sliding components

  • Wear resistance

  • Low friction surface

  • Corrosion resistance

  • Oliophilic

Diameter coatings have competitively high adhesion, wear resistance and extreme low friction surfaces with respect to competing DLC coatings

Other

  • Magnetic recording heads

  • Germanium optics

  • Strain gauge plates

  • Packaging

  • Moulds

  • More

  • Various DLC characteristics

Diameter have coated a vast array of miscellaneous objects, and with in-house know-how, has the potential to coat many more products

 

 

  

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