Aesthetics

Hard, tactile surfaces that provide an authentic look and feel are becoming increasingly attractive to modern designers. They describe these surfaces as Haptic, in that they are simultaneously appealing both visually and to the touch. Although not in the original development intent of the technology, Keronite is able to deliver these surfaces, while also imparting impressive corrosion and wear protection.

Consumer Electronics

The mobile phone market, although impacted by the global economic conditions, continues to search for innovative surface treatments, particularly at the smart phone and upper end of the market. While the performance requirements in this sector for any individual characteristics do not necessarily always rival those of parts in our Extreme Environments section, the vast range of different requirements for a mobile phone make this a challenging sector.

Architecture

Aluminium cladding has been a material of choice for a number of years as a highly effective, light weight system to protect the exterior of buildings. Increasingly however building maintenance considerations are driving architects to look for more effective long term protection systems. Keronite developed a specific variant of the core technology that provided a highly cost effective corrosion protection layer that when combined in a Duplex system could provide an exciting range of colours and finishes and corrosion protection guaranteed for 25 years.

Keronite treated cladding systems are currently in use on buildings in Scandinavia and Europe and specified on buildings currently in construction in the Middle East.

CookwarePPP

PTFE has been the non-stick coating of choice for many years. However recent studies have shown significant accumulation of residues of this chemical in young people, so over the coming years the use of this material in cookware is to be phased out. The factor that made PTFE popular however was its excellent non-stick properties while offering reasonably good adhesion to the substrate. Many alternative non-stick coatings are very fragile and cannot survive the normal duty cycle of cookware. When combined with Keronite a new range of nano-materials that provide superb non-stick properties can be protected sufficiently to offer hundreds of cycles in the dishwasher as well as protection from the normal wear and tear of being used on the stove top.