Staying ahead of the curve and keeping pace with our clients requirements is a driving motivation at Harfords.

To that end, we have embarked on several R & D Projects specifically designed to gain new techniques to produce high performance coatings that are hard, dense and inert. These techniques will have the ability to be applied to small or large components or small areas of large components, internal surfaces and complex shapes.

These techniques will also have the ability to be applied to our existing thermal spray coatings in order to enhance their physical properties. The micro porosity and fissures in Electrolytic Hard Chrome will be able to be filled.

Inner Armor™ is the trade name of Sub-One Inc. a diamond like Carbon material applied by the PHCIIP process. Harfords have secured the Inner Armor rights to apply Hollow Cathode Plasma Ion Immersion Process coatings from Sub-One Inc. The process is plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for internal surfaces such as those in pipes. The properties of the Inner Armor are well known to Sub-One, however the newness in application of the coating in the general industrial market means final stage in field sample testing will be required in some applications.

For example, the potential for Inner Armor to help solve the problem of a hydrate/water layer in pipes is to be explored. We are to team with the CSIRO, CURTIN AND U.W.A to supply diamond like carbon coated pipes for evaluation. The coatings will be applied at our recently completed Inner Armor Coating Facility at our Canning Vale workshop.

New variations of Inner Armor can be created by our partner, Sub-One, at their research and development centre in the U.S. in order that the W.A. E.R.A. group can progress with achieving the best results from this coating.

When it comes to large scale operations, such as sub sea piping and the like the possible benefits could be huge. The possibility of InnnerArmor mitigating Hydrate build up on internal surfaces of piping is one aspect that needs further investigation. Harfords will be joining the W.A. E.R.A. as an industry partner. This association will be used to conduct research and testing of our latest coatings, InnerArmor. Iincreased flow rates (energy cost reductions) in transport pipes is just one of the improvement areas of this research. In essense, the possibilites are almost limitless.



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