We are industry leaders in thin film coating because we do things differently. Always have and always will.

About Industrial Hard Carbon

We are committed to consistently exceeding our customers’ expectations for Quality, Delivery, and Service.

Our quality policy is simple:
We commit to exceeding your expectations every step of the way.
We inspect everything the moment an order arrives on-site. We don’t like to coat damaged goods. We build our own machines, and we know them inside and out. That means you’ve got experts behind the wheel every step of the process. We investigate variances from customer specifications, and we tell you what we find so you can make better, more cost-effective decisions down the road.

Our History

Rumor has it that diamond-like carbon (DLC) was first formed when the U.S. military performed vacuum testing and hydrocarbon oil leaked into the chamber, where it ionized and deposited itself over various parts. The coating formed was a slick, graphite, hard diamond with serious potential.

When we first got wind of that potential in the 1990s, we were building our own coating machines — we still do, and we wondered: What would happen if we applied Hard Carbon to a wrist pin in a high-performance engine?

You can probably figure out the answer to that…