Arkansas' First Nanomanufacturing Facility Set to Open in Springdale

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Authority client Duralor LLC is a producer of high-performance coatings and coating processes for cutting tools and machine-wear parts. The Springdale-based company will open a production and R&D site May 29. The facility, located in the Springdale Technology Park, will also house NanoMech's headquarters and joint research operations. A subsidiary of NanoMech, Duralor competes in the $20 billion global cutting tool market.

Duralor manufactures cubic boron nitride (cBN) coatings for cutting-tool applications currently in use by a global automotive manufacturer and in the heavy-machinery industry under the product name TuffTek®. Diamonds are the only cutting surface harder than cBN, but are unsuitable for hardened steel machining.