nCoat is committed to improving our products through innovation. The company's wholly owned subsidiary High Performance Coatings, Inc ("HPC") was founded in 1982 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From its first operational year, HPC was established as a worldwide leader in advanced coatings technology. HPC headquarters were eventually moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and are now located in Whitsett, North Carolina. HPC has offices and facilities in Oklahoma, Utah, North Carolina, and Arizona.
Using proprietary coatings of the type that were previously only available to the military aerospace industry, HPC created a niche market for protective, corrosion resistant, lubritic and thermal barrier coatings for the racing and automotive aftermarket. In the twenty-five years since, HPC has developed numerous coatings for a wide range of applications. Today, the company is looking forward to the expansion and growth of its markets and ability to provide a long and growing list of customers with ever better products via the innovative application of nanotechnology.
nTech, Inc., another wholly owned subsidiary, develops and holds proprietary intellectual property and further licenses coatings facilities at customers' manufacturing plants, leveraging a unique and market differentiating distributed production strategy.
Recently one of our nano-formulated coatings won the prestigious Utah Innovations Award in the Chemicals / Materials Science category of the fourth annual Stoel Rives Utah Innovations Awards competition. The winning coating is specially designed to protect materials requiring a high level of heat resistance and has been tested for use on space vehicles to create thermal barriers upon re-entry. The proprietary "nano-slurry"
coating was able to successfully withstand temperatures in excess of 4,200 degrees Fahrenheit for sustained durations. As documented in multiple project research notes the benefits of our new nano-slurry coatings include: - Heat resistance at levels more than double any previously tested coating
- Tensile strength of new nano-enhanced composites higher than the current production metallic base material
- Flexibility of the coating as documented in bend tests greater than any other tested coating
- Resistance to highly concentrated corrosive material far beyond previously tested coatings as measured in varied corrosivity tests
- Total weight of the composite less than half the weight of the production metallic materials
- Dispersion of the nano-slurry coating that infiltrated the layers of composite fabric fully, creating an exceptionally high density, low porosity finished composite material that far outperformed any previously structured composite
- Exceptional ability of the coating to bind the nano-particulates in the slurry and to bind the slurry to the substrate materials, lessening the risk of long term de-lamination of the composite
