The joint venture will allow the facility of Duroc to locally produce and distribute the anticorrosion coatings of Greenkote for threaded fasteners.
The international developer and supplier of anticorrosion coatings Greenkote
has recently announced that it is entering into a joint venture with the Belgian coating company Duroc in order to expand and strengthen the presence of its corrosion protection solutions within the European Union and the surrounding regions.
The solutions of Greenkote – that meet and exceed numerous international corrosion protection standards such as C5 and over 3,000 hours of salt spray testing – are suitable for a wide range of applications in which products are exposed to the weather and harsh and extreme corrosive environment, from the automotive and railway industry to the offshore and construction sector.
They can then be employed on many types of metal parts, from threaded fasteners to stamped and cast pieces in sizes from 5 millimetres to 2 meters to provide also longer wear resistance, better adhesion and more conformal coverage, which makes the coatings well-suited to complex 3D geometries.
“Greenkote will be an important addition to our lineup of metal protection capabilities, and it will be a natural fit. Our company focuses specifically on providing surface treatments for fasteners and small bulk parts, and the thermal diffusion technology of Greenkote addresses those categories perfectly,” has stated Maarten Van Bercklaer, the managing director of Duroc N.V.
The coatings are applied by leveraging a patented zinc-based dry thermal diffusion process that requires no hazardous chemicals and produces no toxic byproducts. Furthermore, the absence of acids from the processing eliminates hydrogen embrittlement. In the upcoming months, the companies will install the new equipment of Greenkote in the facility of Duroc in Antwerp, in order to locally manufacture advanced thermal diffusion coatings and make the products quickly available.
“We are extremely pleased to be partnering with Duroc, because they are one of Europe's most experienced and respected providers of metal coating services. Having Greenkote coating capabilities installed directly in their Antwerp facility will enable European customers to get our anticorrosion coatings much more quickly and easily. And it will significantly extend Greenkote coverage, adding to the facilities we currently have in the UK and Italy,” has also added Mark Gore, the CEO of Greenkote PLC.