Fresh Paint
ing market in the region. Sto Corp.
has been working in partnership with
a group in Santiago since 2006 and
has now completed an acquisition of
manufacturing and marketing operations to help support the growing market there. Target markets include both
commercial and residential as well as
exporting material to other Latin
American countries. The operations
will manufacture wet materials on-site along with stocking meshes and
other materials needed to supply multiple markets. Sto Corp., based in
Atlanta, Georgia, is a producer of a
broad range of cladding and coating
systems for building construction,
maintenance and restoration. Sto
Corp. is ISO 14001:2004 as well as
ISO 9001:2008 certified and operates
production plants strategically located
to serve more than 200 distributor
shipping locations across North and
South America. Sto Corp. is a subsidiary of Sto AG, headquartered in
Stühlingen, Germany, located in the
heart of the Black Forest.
MESOCOAT’S NANOCOMPOSITE
CERMET COATINGS SELECTED
AS A TOP TECHNOLOGY
MesoCoat Inc.’s PComP nanocompos-
ite cermet coatings have been identi-
fied and selected as a breakthrough
nanotechnology of potential benefit to
the oil and gas exploration and pro-
duction industry by EPNanoNet.
MesoCoat Inc.’s CEO, Andrew
Sherman participated in the first
EPNanoNet webinar on Sept 28th,
briefing leading oil and gas industry
members on the company’s nanocom-
posite coating solutions for extending
equipment life and operational
envelopes in extreme environments.
This is the first in a series of
“Nanotechnology for E&P” webinars
to be hosted by EPNanoNet, and
MesoCoat was chosen as one poten-
tially stand-out technology over a
highly competitive pool of nanotech-
nology-based solutions companies and
technologies to participate in this
flagship event. EPNanoNet was
launched in 2008 with the mission of
accelerating the development and
uptake of nanotechnology within the
upstream oil and gas exploration and
production industry. MesoCoat’s
PComP nanocomposite cermet family
of coatings incorporate solid lubricant
and other ceramic nanoparticles into
a hard, tough, extremely durable coat-
ing system that is used to protect
metal parts from wear and corrosion
in extreme environments, such as
those encountered in the E&P indus-
try. The PComP coatings are applied
using thermal spray, and provide up
to 10 times life extension over carbide
and hard chrome coatings in sliding
wear applications because of extreme-
ly low coefficients of friction combined
with high hardness. The nanocompos-
ite coatings also provide improve-
ments in ductility, toughness and
spallation resistance compared to
ceramic coatings such as diamond
like carbon, tungsten carbide, or alu-
mina-ceramic, and are easier and
faster to apply and grind than con-
ventional, larger grain size coating
materials.
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