Tantaline Treatment

The Surface alloy is what makes tantaline extremely rugged and durable. During the Tantaline process a furnace is heated to a temperature between 700 – 900C where tantalum metal is chemically reacted and vaporized. At this high temperature, it allows us to create conditions suitable for solid state diffusion and alloy bonding at an atomic level. This is important because it virtually eliminates the risk of chipping spalling and delamination that may be seen with traditional coating processes. Next because it is as gas phase process both internal and external surface could easily be treated making the Tantaline process geometry independent capable of treating complex products. Finally the tantalum surface that is grown is 100% dense, it’s ductile and it has low tension. This is very different from thermal sprays since the Tantaline process occurs on an atomic level, creates a surface alloy and is geometry independent.