Hardide Coatings, Inc., the UK-based provider of advanced surface coating technology has opened a new production facility in Virginia. In January 2015, the company commenced an investment of up to USD 7M in Martinsville to expand its production operations to North America. This expansion has been driven by increased demand from North American customers, with sales to the US and Canada more than doubling during 2015. The 26,000 square foot facility in Martinsville-Henry County, will service existing and new customers for the company’s patented range of hard wearing tungsten carbide coatings in the oil and gas and flow control markets.
Philip Kirkham, CEO of Hardide plc said: “Having a local production facility in North America will support the increased demand from existing customers and significantly boost opportunities to expand provision of our coatings throughout the region. We have installed two large capacity chemical vapor deposition (CVD) coating reactors and work is already progressing well on some very exciting customer trials. I would like thank all in Martinsville-Henry County and Virginia Economic Development departments for their help and assistance, and in particular Governor McAuliffe and Secretary Jones for their personal support in helping to get this project underway in Martinsville.”