By: Sarah Taylor
Some of SilcoTek’s coated products | Image Credit: SilcoTek’s “where can you buy SilcoTek coated products?” blog
Phones, laptops, smart refrigerators and manufacturing line machines. What do they all have in common? They all need microchips.
Everyone uses some type of these electronic devices, but not many people know that contaminants in metals such as stainless steel can cause failures in the manufacturing of microchips. Besides it being expensive to fix the corrosion failures, these contaminants can also make it difficult for researchers to accurately analyze human and chemical samples, leading to a hindrance in scientific discovery.
SilcoTek Corporation, though, has discovered the solution: game-changing coatings that improve manufacturing performance and research capabilities.
“We originally discovered and solved this problem in analytical chemistry on chromatography columns as part of Restek Corporation,” SilcoTek President and Head Coach Gary Barone explained. This discovery led to the formation of SilcoTek in 2009, focusing solely on providing coating solutions. “We focus on high technology-driven markets with companies who are solving some of science and engineering’s most important challenges.”
“We focus on high technology-driven markets with companies who are solving some of science and engineering’s most important challenges.”
According to Barone, SilcoTek “envisions a world where new scientific discoveries are possible, processes are more efficient and advanced, and society as a whole benefits from the new capabilities that our coatings enable.”
SilcoTek’s customers range from manufacturers of medical diagnostic equipment to smartphone companies, and impact ordinary people’s lives. Numerous companies within four major industries — semiconductor manufacturing, analytical chemistry, life sciences and energy — have adopted SilcoTek’s coatings to improve their performance and efficiency, benefiting those who use and depend on the produced technologies.
“Our customers often tell us that ‘we make the impossible possible’ for them and their customers,” said Barone.
Like many businesses, SilcoTek began and stayed in Happy Valley. Why? Barone gladly explains: “Happy Valley contributes unique technology, talent and intellectual capital to many of the industries SilcoTek serves as a coatings provider.”
“Happy Valley contributes unique technology, talent and intellectual capital to many of the industries SilcoTek serves as a coatings provider.”
He added that, “coupled with resources available through the university, our small community plays a large role in advancing global innovation and business…and being headquartered here [in Happy Valley] opens up doors for collaboration we likely wouldn’t have elsewhere.”
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Sarah Taylor is a communications professional. Sarah can be reached at sarah.st.taylor@gmail.com.
