BEST's Divisions

Best Engineered Surface Technologies is focused on being the early adaptor of coating and finishing technologies by capturing innovative technologies and adapting them to resolve our customer’s specific needs in order to advance the performance characteristics of our customer’s parts and components.

Diamonex

Diamonex® is a long-time developer of diamond-like carbon (DLC) and polycrystalline diamond coating (CVD) technologies.

Diamonex® provides unique coating solutions to enhance performance, extend component life in diverse industries and challenging operating environments, and increase part performance in extreme environments. In addition to coatings, Diamonex® has developed unique ion source technology designed specifically for the deposition of high-quality DLC and DLC-Iike nano composite films. Diamonex Application engineers radio frequency (RF) DLC process delivers uniform conformal coatings on complex geometries, while Diamonex’s proprietary application technologies which provides unique coating tolerances. Diamonex Application Engineers will work with your engineers to tailor and optimize robust coating processes and testing protocols to deliver coating solutions that meet your application and quality requirements. With over 46 patents generated by our R&D team, Diamonex’s goal is to continually enhance the quality and service provided.

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Teknicote

Teknicote is one of the largest contract surface finishing operations in the United States featuring a 50,000 square foot state of the art facility.

Teknicote's facilities provide automatic, semi automatic, and manual coating services in a vast array of finishes. From a small, deep drawn brass tube to a large, galvanneal sheet metal telecommunications cabinet. Teknicote can provide a protective, high quality, decorative or functional finish on 1 or 1 million units. Offering flexibility, customized service and modern techniques, Teknicote approaches each job with individualized attention as we have for nearly 50 years having been established in 1972.

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Medicote

Medicote offers some of the most technologically advanced coating systems found.

Our uniquely designed coating application systems systems include chain on edge and overhead conveyor system designs to enable us to meet the most diversified applications with ease and in the volumes necessary for any medical device OEM. Our multi-stage pretreatment processes and washing systems are fully integrated in the line or processed through a separate department. Our surface treatment capabilities include conversion coating, sandblasting, plastic bead blasting, mass finishing, precision cleaning, chromating, anodizing, hard-coating, and PTFE coatings. Our special expertise includes selective coatings applications, masking techniques and working with special materials. Close tolerance applications are welcomed. Secondary finishes are also available as requested including screen and pad printing, labeling, light assembly, packaging, and special certifications.

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Windsor Metal Finishing

Electrostatic applicator of high performance fluoropolymer coatings in liquid and powder.

Windsor Metal Finishing was founded in 1992, and is located in central Florida just south of Orlando. The company was developed to apply liquid high performance (PVDF) fluoropolymer Kynar coatings. This coating was designed specifically for the architectural industry, with a focus on coastal areas that experience harsh environmental conditions.Windsor is a certified applicator of high performance Kynar 500® and Hylar 5000® finishes manufactured by PPG, Sherwin Williams and Valspar Corporation, and applies their products in accordance with AAMA Specification 2605, 1998, “Superior Performing Organic Coatings on Aluminum Extrusions and Panels”. (Note; 1998 was the last version of the specification that mandated the exclusive use of amorphous chromium phosphate pretreatment)Thermosetting acrylics and thermally accelerated air dry systems such as Coraflon and Megaflon (a 100% fluoropolymer resin manufactured by PPG) are also available through WMF. Less sophisticated Kynar colors and mica finishes are color matched and blended in-house while custom and metallic finishes are purchased directly from the coating manufacturers.Regardless of the resin system specified, all aluminum products receive a chemical conversion coating of Amorphous Chromium Phosphate coating in accordance with ASTM 449.Windsor has been involved with finishing prestigious projects from Alaska to the tropical climate of Hawaii or the desert kingdoms of Saudi Arabia. Windsor also participated in the coating of perforated aluminum curtainwall panels housing the LED system covering the lower 22 stories of the New World Trade Center Freedom Tower.

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