North American Coating Laboratories (NACL) is one of only a few organizations in the world that offer both vacuum and dip-applied coating solutions in one facility. NACL’s dip-applied polysiloxane is a conformal, optically matched, abrasion resistant coating that also significantly reduces damage to polymers from chemical attack. Our polysiloxane protects your plastics from exposure to bug spray, sunscreen, and many other common solvents including alcohol and methanol. This protective application has proven to be especially useful for high touch surfaces at theme parks, airplane cabins, and in automotive displays.

NACL’s specially formulated thermally cured polysiloxane allows for conformal coating of polymer optics with unique geometries. By controlling the processing speed, we can optimize the hardcoat film for the highest level of clarity without having to sacrifice the durability and chemical resistance of the coating. Additionally, our polysiloxane hardcoat minimizes birefringence or the “rainbow effect” sometimes seen on spray or flow applied coatings.

The coating process at NACL utilizes the latest and best in Class 100 clean, robotically driven processing in our state-of-the-art coating system. With our nearly 30 years of hardcoating process development experience, NACL can assist with virtually any polymer hardcoating application.

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North American Coating Laboratories, the photonic and precision optics industries most trusted coating services provider, offers cutting-edge vacuum applied coating technology for a variety of optical substrates. With nearly 50 years of experience, you can rest assured that your optics are in the best hands. NACL’s material competencies include polymers, glass, alloys, and infrared crystalline materials.

NACL utilizes our 42,000 square foot state of the art facility to deploy multiple vacuum coating technologies. These technologies include: electron beam vacuum deposition, ion-assisted vacuum deposition, thermal evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, and plasma enhanced vacuum deposition, as well as low temperature chemical vapor deposition. The variety and flexibility of these various technologies allow NACL to meet even the most challenging technical requirements across all industries.

Our diverse thin-film coating catalog as well as our ability to design custom optical coatings affords NACL the ability to serve a variety of industries. NACL leverages our industry leading coating expertise and customer care to partner with some of the most prestigious organizations in the world including MIT, Harvard, and Oxford.

You can learn more about thin film coatings by listening to NACL’s own regularly published podcast “Through the Lens” or by listening to any of our comprehensive webinars .

We have a team of thin-film design professionals with over 90 plus years of experience in the optical coatings industry. Connect with us to discuss your unique application!