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Advantages
HVAF 50% higher Efficiency (over HVOF) - Significant Cost Savings
The key factors of the cost advantage of Kermetico HVAF technology:
- HVAF spray just a fraction of the HVOF spray time, with higher deposition efficiency, with coatings harder and longer lasting.
- 20-30% higher deposition efficiency, 30% less hardness deviation than any HVOF system.
- By choosing Kermetico AK HVAF, a HVOF job shop gains at least a 50% cost advantage to HVOF competitors and additional coating quality advantage as a “bonus.”
- No oxygen in HVAF mode – just compressed air, which costs 10 times less.
- Easy-to-change specialized guns allow spraying each part in the most efficient way.
- The same setup is used for blasting and thermal spray coating using the same gun that results in further reductions of time.
- The cost of consumed spare parts is 1/10 of the conventional HVOF expenses for the same work.
- The Kermetico HVAF AK line is an all-in-one system operating several specific guns: Universal, big OD, small OD, ID, rotating ID and hand-held. This requires less investment in a Kermetico HVAF system and makes the payback period shorter.
