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With its introduction to the market
nearly 20 years ago, Si-COAT was the first to offer the user
a number of previously unavailable benefits.
The greatest of these benefits was Si-COAT’s superior
adhesion to the insulator surface. Thus, in the extreme case
where infrequent water washing was still required to keep
the coating performing optimally, Si-COAT would not come away
from the insulator. This was not the case with Si-COAT’s
leading competitor.
But since those early days the competition has learned,
and outstanding adhesion of room temperature vulcanizing (RTV)
coatings to insulators remains an innovation and benefit first
brought to the market by Si-COAT.
Perhaps less obvious but more significant an advantage,
Si-COAT offered the user superior electrical characteristics.
Such performance yielded enhanced hydrophobicity, quicker
hydrophobic recovery after water immersion (such as after
heavy rainfall) and far greater leakage current suppression
than could be found in the competitor’s product. These
superior attributes were achieved through the identification
and patenting of the optimum particle size of a key ingredient
called alumina trihydrate (ATH).
The attributes of Si-COAT are based on two decades of R&D
by CSL Silicones Inc. in the field of RTV technology. Besides
its patented formulation, Si-COAT RTV derives its characteristics
from a proprietary process of manufacturing the silicone polymer.
All engineering behind Si-COAT was undertaken independently
and done ‘in-house’.
Even as the competition introduces PLUS or Next Generation
versions of their RTV coatings, they still cannot match the
superior performance of Si-COAT. The reason for this lies
in the patented discovery and the finely tuned manufacturing
processes behind Si-COAT.
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