Success Story: ITW Industrial Finishing -Buffing Fixtures

• Buffing operations utilize fixtures that are subject to severe abrasive wear to hold parts and mask non-buffed areas.
  
• ITW previously used solid ceramic fixtures or a combination of steel with solid ceramic or carbide in wear areas in the manufacturing and buffing of their industrial spray guns.
  
• In 1992, ITW began utilizing a cold rolled steel fixture with Saturn’s ceramic coating in wear areas. These fixtures:
  
  • Substantially outlasted uncoated steel or heat treated tools
    
  • Provide longer life and better machinablity than solid ceramic or carbide,
    
  • Plus our Saturn Ceramic coated fixtures can be repaired & recoated
    
• After over a decade of use, Saturn has continually proven to be the most cost effective method.

Saturn Ceramic:
Lower initial cost, ability to recoat means substantial savings

• Based on fixtures with Solid Ceramic or Carbide costing 60% more than Saturn Ceramic coated fixtures. All have approximately equal life spans. • Saturn Ceramic fixtures can be recoated for less than 50% of the cost toreplace Solid Ceramic or Carbide fixtures