SPECIALTY ELASTOMERS & THIN FILM COATINGS

Demanding environments and excessive wear are struggles for any engineering team. Pierce would like to partner with you to overcome some of these obstacles. Our engineers have over 15 years of fusing solutions, release experience and wear knowledge essential to your design.

With our cost cutting core technology and our coating expertise we can increase the life and reduce the cost of your product. We recognize your need to cut costs.

Your most efficient way of reducing costs is through use of our superior life cores (inertia welding or PierceFORMING™). The core and coating design directly impacts the ability to reclaim your product. Our customers benefit from our extensive experience in design for remanufacturing and reclamation. We can work as a team to develop a product that can be reclaimed and recoated.

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Pierce Engineering takes into consideration each of the following design parameters:

• Electrical & heat conductivity
• Homogeneous surface hardness
• Service life
• Surface quality
• Precise concave, convex or cylindrical line form
• Abrasion resistance

PROCESS ADVANTAGES

• Reduced wear and increased life: our coatings are specifically designed to meet the demands of highly abrasive environments.
• Increased nip width and release at high speeds: composite hardness and nip control through design of the coating.
• Various ranges of durometer: 5 Asker C -> 80 shore A
• Thermal transfer: Through core and coatings design we achieve your required rates.

APPLICATIONS

• Specialty Elastomers (Silicone) sprayed on or molded on PFA sleeves
• Thin Film Coatings
• Electrostatic Powder
• Spray (aqueous or solvent)
• Finishing
• Rubber Grinding
• Lapping
• Sanding
• Polishing
• Core Construction
• Similar Materials (see PierceFORMING™)
• Dissimilar Materials (see inertial welding)
• Molding
• Liquid Injection Molding
• (LIM) Reclamation (stripping and reusing the core)
• Prototype

More about our Elastomers & Thin Film Coatings business unit

PTFE & PFA Coatings
Heating rollers are subject to the influences of temperature, print media and abrasion. New, durable, electrically conductive coatings consisting of new PFA and PTFE mixtures enhance resistance to these influences and thus prolong equipment service life.

A special process is used to give Teflon®-coated heating rollers an extremely homogeneous surface structure without polishing traces—a level of quality that conventional processes simply cannot achieve.

Molding: liquid injection molding (LIM)

Finishing: rubber grinding

Lapping: sanding & polishing

Reclamation
Our most popular cost reduction program involves the reclamation of machined steel or aluminum roller cores for reuse. In this process, the used rollers are stripped down to the bare metal, and then re-coated using the same methods and materials as the original. The completed rebuilt roller is the functional equivalent of the original, at a typical cost savings of 10-40%, with reduced environmental impact.

Prototype and Short Run
You can have the convenience of working with one organization to develop tooling, make prototypes and begin production. Pierce provides its customers with full integration which allows for fast turnaround of prototypes and short run product. Our in-house tooling lab and low volume production facility will give you the edge you need to get product to your engineering design team.




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