Coating Refurbishment Rapid Response Service

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Capabilities

Our CNC turning and milling facility means we can offer the full engineering service to our customers.

Our inspection and measuring equipment includes a state-of-the-art CNC Coordinate measuring machine, and optical measuring machines.
- Milling
  
  Learn more about our CNC milling capabilities and how we can help bring your ideas to life. Our expert team is ready to take on your next project. We offer comprehensive plastic CNC milling services from the micro in size to much larger 1 meter long components.
- Turning
  
  CNC turning of PTFE and engineering plastics. Live tooling on our lathes mean competitive pricing and shorter lead times.
- Micro Parts
  
  We are proud to have assisted with development of many insulating components with a diameter of 1mm or less.
Engineering & Design

We provide a bespoke fluoropolymer component design & manufacture service and can deliver the right solution to your problem.
Manufactured Plastic Parts

For over 25 years, we have been manufacturing high-performance plastic parts for our clients, and we have established ourselves as leading experts in the production of certain fluoropolymer products. Whilst we can design and produce almost any part or component that is...
- Seals
  
  We design and manufacture world-class plastic, rubber and elastomer seals.
  - Custom Seals
    
    When you’ve tried standard profile seals without success or know you’re going to need a bespoke solution for a particular project, we can deliver what you need.
  - Standard Seals
    
    AFT Fluorotec have an extensive range of PTFE materials and we can also produce seals in other materials such as VICTREX® PEEK, PU, FPM and NBR.
  - RCD Seals
    
    AFT Fluorotec have a broad range of experience in designing and manufacturing RCD seals for the oil & gas industry.
  - PTFE Seals
    
    From back up rings and mining seals to piston seals and o rings, we offer a wide range of sealing products machined from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).
  - VICTREX PEEK Seals
    
    With outstanding mechanical, thermal and chemical resistance properties, PEEK is an ideal material to use for sealing applications.
  - Compressor Parts
    
    We pride ourselves on our expert knowledge of the compressor parts industry, providing a wide range of compounds suitable for your application.
- Tubes & Rods
  
  We can produce fluoropolymer tubes and rods in any size, shape or material type.
- Backup Rings
  
  We can design and manufacture an almost limitless range of VICTREX PEEK back up rings (BUR’s) as well as PTFE rings.
- Valve Seats
  
  We manufacture valve seats manufactured from our AF range of materials, including PTFE and VICTREX PEEK materials.
- PTFE Bellows
  
  What Are PTFE Bellows? PTFE bellows are flexible, accordion-like structures made from Polytetrafluoroethylene, a synthetic fluoropolymer known for its exceptional properties. These bellows are designed to provide a combination of flexibility and chemical resistance while maintaining their structural integrity. PTFE bellows are...
- Desalter Bushings
  
  Desalter Bushings, also known as Desalter Entrance Bushings, Desalter Vessel Entrance Bushings, and Dehydrator and TR Bushings, are crucial components in the oil refining industry. These specialised bushings are designed to improve the efficiency and reliability of the desalting process, a critical...
Slide Bearings

AFT Fluorotec have been manufacturing slide bearings for the UK construction industry for many years.
- PTFE Bearing Design
  
  Browse some of our typical PTFE slide bearing and skidway plate configurations and get in touch to discuss your requirements.
- Selection & installation guide
  
  PTFE slide bearings can be fixed to the installation by full welding, tack welding, mortar embedment or bolting.

9th June 2021 | Non-Stick Release Coatings, Teflon Coatings, Xylan Coatings, Food & Drink, Science & Medical, Industrial Bakeware, ETFE Coatings, Halar® ECTFE Coatings

One of our unique selling points that makes us stand out from our competitors is our ability to provide a rapid service to our clients whilst still maintaining our high-quality standards.

We routinely respond to several maintenance breakdowns for plant and machinery in many different industries. Our ability to provide a fast, flexible service minimises downtime and enables plant engineers to have a planned maintenance window for their production downtime.

Our rapid turnaround (in some cases 24hrs) has enabled businesses to be back up and running with minimal disruption to the customer’s production. Our service includes a complete coating refurbishment with controlled removal of the old coating often resulting in parts being restored to their original manufactured condition.

Our coatings are carefully chosen from the full range of Teflon®, Xylan®, Greblon®, Tefzel™ and Halar® finishers plus our own specially formulated AFC range, this enables us to provide the best solutions to many engineering problems. For those applications with extreme wear, a reinforced base coat can be applied which strengthens and prolongs the life of the coatings.

Refurbishment of processing machinery and engineering equipment includes;

Food processing and bakery equipment (mixers, dough hoppers and chutes, dough rounders and moulds, spreader bars, rollers, cutting/slicing blades, sweet and chocolate moulds and mixing equipment).
Material handling equipment (hoppers, pumps, tanks, valves, impellers, vessels, tablet chutes, conveyor equipment, guide rails, pulleys, mating parts and rotating equipment).
Printing and packaging equipment (ink pans, glue tanks, glue rollers, glue nozzles, bookbinding machines, heat seal bars, hot foil tools, scrapers, cutting blades).
Chemical processing equipment (process vessels, pumps, valves, containers, acid tanks, agitators, pipework, pipe spools, fans, chemical tanks and centrifuges).

Case Studies

Here are just some of the examples of how we have helped our clients with our rapid recoating and refurbishing services:

case study

Rapid Dough Hopper Recoatings

We were approached by a Fabrication and Service company, whose customers had been having issues with their industrial bakery dough hoppers. They were in desperate need of a rapid recoating service to ensure only minimum factory downtime was required.

Industrial Bakeware