European metal coating specialists Greenkote and Duroc N.V. formed a joint venture, making Greenkote coating capabilities directly available to the European Union and surrounding regions, Fastener + Fixing Magazine reports.

“Having Greenkote coating capabilities installed directly in their Antwerp facility will enable European customers to get our anticorrosion coatings much more quickly and easily,” stated Greenkote CEO Mark Gore. “It will also significantly extend Greenkote coverage, adding to the facilities we currently have in the UK and Italy.”

“Our company focuses specifically on providing surface treatments for fasteners and small bulk parts, and Greenkote’s thermal diffusion technology addresses those categories perfectly,” added Durco managing director Maarten Van Bercklaer.

In the coming months, the companies will install new Greenkote equipment in Duroc’s Antwerp facility to produce the thermal diffusion coatings.

Greenkote anticorrosion coatings serve a range of industries – from automotive and rail to offshore and construction – in which products are exposed to the weather and harsh and extreme corrosive environments. These coatings meet and exceed numerous international corrosion protection standards such as C5 and over 3,000 hours of standardized salt spray testing.

Greenkote can be applied to many types of metal parts, from threaded fasteners to stamped and cast pieces, in sizes from 5mm to 2m. In addition to corrosion protection, thecoatings also provide longer wear, better adhesion and more conformal coverage, which makes them well suited to complex 3D geometries like threaded parts.

Greenkote coatings are applied by a patented zinc-based dry thermal diffusion process that requires no hazardous chemicals and produces no toxic by-products. The absence of acids from Greenkote processing also eliminates hydrogen embrittlement, a metal failure associated with many other coatings.