Poeton Industries Limited, a world leader in surface coating technology, has won a substantial order from its Gloucestershire neighbour Spirax Sarco thanks to investment in a new coating process.

Poeton Industries Limited, a world leader in surface coating technology, has won a substantial order from its Gloucestershire neighbour Spirax Sarco thanks to a recent 90,000 GBP investment in EDEN - a special environmental dialysis system designed to reduce waste from the coating process. Cheltenham based Spirax Sarco, a supplier of products and services worldwide for the control of steam and other industrial fluids, adheres to a strict environmental policy when selecting its supplier partners. The company placed the order with Poeton after sample coatings proved that the combination of the new Poeton semi-automated electroless nickel line and the EDEN environmental system, provided consistently high standards of corrosion protection for a range of steam traps and control and metering products.

Explains Poeton managing director Colin John: "EDEN provides continuous and very precise control of the electroless nickel solution, which means we achieve much more consistent plating rates and finer tolerances".

A spokesman for Spirax Sarco agrees: "We were impressed with the Poeton ability to deliver such a high quality, 'right first time' corrosion resistant coating, and equally impressed with the more attractive finish it provided for our cast iron components".

The steam traps are coated with Apticote 400, a nickel composite coating that combines the protection of low friction polymers with the natural hardness and corrosion resistance of nickel to provide superior wear, abrasion and chemical resistance.

To ensure on-time delivery for the Spirax Sarco monthly production schedule, Poeton also provides a weekly collection and delivery service and has the flexibility to operate its electroless-nickel lines 24-hours a day to meet any increases in demand.

To discuss surface treatments, sample part processing or technical advice call Poeton Industries now.

EDEN - Electro Dialysis for Electroless Nickel - works by continuously cleaning the process solution in the two electroless nickel plating lines.

It has reduced monthly volumes of spent process solutions by 1500 litres and virtually eliminated the generation of hazardous heavy metal waste.

Poeton believes it is the first UK surface treatment specialist to install the EDEN environmental system.