New Whitford Coating Extends Release Life of Coated Components

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The new logo designed for Whitford’s breakthrough industrial coating system.
New Whitford coating extends release life of
coated components as much as 50 times
18 March 2009, Runcorn, Cheshire, UK. Release coatings are crucial to many industries,
such as commercial bakeware, reprographics, molding, etc. And release coatings have been
around for some time. Their chief problem is that the release characteristic tends to wear off
quickly, requiring expensive recoating of parts, costs of shipping heavy metal to be coated,
downtime, etc.
A breakthrough coating developed by Whitford R&D is changing all that. It’s called Xylan®
XLR (an abbreviation for “Xtra-Long-Release”). Offered as a two-coat system with Whitford
primers for maximum performance, Xylan XLR can be specified to suit the needs of the application. And it is easily applied using conventional spray techniques.
A premium product for a variety of industrial markets, Xylan XLR outperforms all other
release coatings available today, significantly reducing the need for recoats during the life of the
coated component. It offers a variety of product benefits in addition to superior release and
longer-lasting release, including:
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Enhanced resistance to abrasion
Improved hardness
Improved resistance to permeation
Superior smoothness/higher gloss.
All these benefits are particularly meaningful to such companies as those who use commercial bakeware tins (e.g., for making McDonald’s hamburger buns), or install fuser rollers in copy
machines that have to release thousands of inked pages a day, or make moulds that form hundreds of plastic packages.
Xylan XLR has already been sampled by a variety of applications ranging from release of
foam products to industrial bread-making to polyester balloons, all with surprising results. In
one example, a manufacturer was able to achieve 50 times more release cycles with Xylan XLR
than with any other coating he had tried.
For more information on new Xylan XLR, contact Whitford directly at [email protected].
Whitford, a privately held company, has manufacturing facilities in 8 countries, offices in 8
more, and agents in an additional 25. Whitford manufactures the largest, most complete line of
fluoropolymer coatings in the world. To visit Whitford on the web: whitfordww.com.
Whitford Ltd., 10, Christleton Ct., Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 1ST • Tel: +44 (1928) 571 000