Precision Coating Company, Inc products

The GlideLine™ family of medical device coating finishes is the broadest offering of applied fluoropolymer (PTFE) coatings in the industry, customized to optimize the design, quality, and performance characteristics of your high-quality medical products. You can choose two types of medical grade fluoropolymer coating chemistries for medical devices; an aqueous-based PTFE coating and a solvent-based coating.

On the other hand, the solvent grade of PTFE coatings (PC 4006 Series and PC 403 Series) use a dry fully cured ground powder of PTFE. This fully cured ground micro powder of PTFE is then added to a solvent system containing a binder and pigments (no chromic acid or PFOA). Since the PTFE is already fully cured, only the final cure of the binder has to be reached in order to promote maximum adhesion to hold the PTFE particles in place. This is typically hundreds of degrees less than the dispersion grade helping to decrease oxidation of exposed metals.

The dispersion grade of PTFE resins (aqueous-based MCTPE Series) remain in a wet stage from the above polymerization process into the final liquid coating in dispersion form. Here chromic acid, surfactants and wetting agents, and pigments help promote adhesion to the substrates to which applied during the high temperature bake cycles. MCTPE Series is a zero-PFOA coating.