Cleanpart is a DLC jobcoater in the hard coating market. The company also supplies equipment concepts and engineering for tribosystems as well as providing consulting services on lubricant-free friction and protection against both wear, tear and corrosion.
The procedure Cleanpart uses to manufacture particularly heat-resistant coatings with diamond-like characteristics is plasma-assisted CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition), or PACVD for short.
In this environmentally-friendly process, the parts to be coated can be of any shape and are neither moved nor exposed to high temperatures in the reactor.
The manufacture of the DLC coating involves the addition of hydrocarbons as well as further elements such as nitrogen, silicon, fluorine and titanium. The addition of such elements makes it possible to specifically vary the coatings so that they are harder, more elastic or more friction-reducing depending on the customer’s particular requirements.
This coating type is referred to as a-C:H:X, where ‘˜X’ refers to the additives, and which is supplied by Cleanpart as a trademarked DLC coating under the brand name DYNAMANT ®.