About Us
Kermetico, Inc. is a family owned California corporation established in 2006.
We make the jobs of plant managers and maintenance personnel easier by
timely delivery of quality coatings that improve the performance of machines,
vessels, and structures. We are committed to providing the best quality
coatings by using the most advanced technologies in high-velocity thermal
spraying and surface engineering.
Facilities
- Soundproof spray booth, 32'L x 12'W x 10'H,
equipped with removable roof, 12,000 CFM Donaldson Torit dust collector,
and 100 HP Keiser electric air compressor with refrigerated air
cleaning station
- Overhead crane: 7,000 LBS
- Rolls: max OD 48 inches, max face length 170 inches
- Pipes: max length 32 feet
- Discs: max DIA 85 inches
- Six-axis robot, Motoman HP20
- Six-axis robot, Motoman HP50
- Two stations for thermal spray coating application (AcuKote HVAF)
- Grit blast cabinet system, 6'L x 4'W x 3'H,
with separate dust collector
- Vacuum grit blast system
- Turning lathe, milling machine, drilling presses, ovens, etc.
- Quality control instrumentation
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Management
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The managing director, Dr. Andrew Verstak, has been involved
in thermal spray since 1983. He holds an MS in Metallurgy and
a PhD in Materials Science. His work experience includes the
Powder Metallurgy Association (Minsk, Belarus), Aachen Technical
University (Aachen, Germany), Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA),
Metalspray (Richmond, VA), and UniqueCoat Technologies (Oilville, VA).
Dr. Verstak holds eleven patents and published over eighty
papers in the USA, Europe, and Japan. He has first-hand experience
in air and vacuum plasma spraying, underwater plasma spraying and
synthesis, high-velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) and electric arc spraying.
He is a co-inventor of the Activated Combustion HVAF process. |
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