TH605 Industrial Floor Coating

TH605 is a dual duty coating consisting of aluminum and silicon carbide that offers both corrosion protection as well as texture through its hard Silicone Carbides that offer great wear resistance. This corrosion-resistant spray coating also provides non-slip coating for metal surfaces.

TH605 is a cored wire made up of an aluminum sleeve that is filled with silicon carbide. We start with a flat strip of aluminum, form it into a “U”, deposit silicon carbide powder inside it and then fold it over after which it is drawn to size. The aluminum offers sacrificial properties when applied to iron and steel while also acting as a matrix to bind the hard and wear resistant oxides within the coating.

TH605 is applied using a twin wire arc spray process sometimes called metalizing.  Two spools of TH605 wire are put on either side of our arc spray machine which then energizes one positive and the other negative, these wires strike an arc when they come within close proximity of each other at the gun head which melts the material.  Dry compressed air is added which both atomizes and propels the material to the substrate.  While the material is molten in the arc zone at the gun head it quickly starts to solidify in flight, the semi-molten particles are propelled at such a rate that they become a splat when they hit the substrate. 

This process only requires electricity and compressed air, therefore, the process is relatively inexpensive to operate.  Furthermore, the equipment and material are portable and mobile so it is just as easy to operate whether in the field or in a shop.

Application of TH605 anti-corrosion industrial floor coating is considered to be a low skill level process, successful coatings can, and have been, applied with a minimal amount of training.