Work Smarter, NOT harder: King Industries Redefines What’s Possible in Technical Service.
In today’s fast-paced markets, staying ahead requires more than just a great product, it demands quick and reliable support, provided by world renowned experts who know how to formulate and solve problems big and small.
Whether you’re looking to reformulate for your customer’s new performance needs in achieving global regulatory compliance, cost-effectiveness, carbon footprint, or any other mission, our experts are available and always deliver confidential, innovative, and timely solutions.
Why Choose King Industries?
Our commitment is simple: to help you maximize the potential of your products through rigorous testing and expert advice. With King Industries, you gain access to a wide range of testing services, utilizing state-of-the-art equipment designed specifically to test performance in competitive markets. Our complimentary, fast, and confidential services are designed to be an extension of your own technical development team, saving you valuable time and resources. We are here for you – ready for any challenge you throw at us.
Let’s take a deeper look into the services we offer and how they can transform your product performance and possibly open doors to new product development and opportunities for the future.
At King Industries, we’re driven by one goal: to help you maintain a competitive edge. To accomplish this, we continually invest in performance-based testing equipment so we can be that one-stop-shop you need for Coatings, Lubricants, and other specialty application needs including Foam, and electronic high purity grade applications. Our technical services support your product development and problem-solving teams from inception through field trials and beyond. Whether it’s selecting the right raw materials or enhancing your formula with our specialized additives and nearly a century of chemistry and formulating experience, we partner closely with you to ensure your success.
Our collaborative approach ensures we fully understand the challenges you face and deliver the outcomes you expect. Our experience, technical know-how, and troubleshooting discovery process allows us to provide extremely productive discussions, formulation guidance, problem-solving results, and application insights. With our responsive team, you can be confident that you’ll receive timely support to help you stay ahead in the market. You’ll never be charged for technical service, you’ll never be pitched anything you don’t need, and once you give our Technical Service and Development teams a shot, we’re confident you’ll never need another technical service partner again.
To serve the diverse needs of our existing and potential customers, our Technical Service & Development teams are aligned with our commercial divisions – Coatings, Lubricants, Foam, and Specialty Markets (Electronic grade chemicals demanding high purity). Each Technical Service and Development group is heavily backed with investments in people, equipment, and knowledge so no matter the industry or application, even if not stated above – this group loves chemistry and will tackle ANY challenge.
The Coatings Tech Service and Development Division at King Industries specializes in working with customers to develop and test solutions to common and niche challenges. With decades of experience in Coatings and parallel technologies including Adhesives, Sealants, Elastomers, and Foam, we rigorously evaluate additive performance to ensure your formula is delivering its peak potential to align with you and your customers’ needs. Our team’s toolbox of testing methods includes:
Whether you’re focused on durability, flexibility, cure, pigment dispersion, gloss, anti-corrosion, chemical resistance, efficiency, production throughput, or regulatory compliance, King’s Coatings Tech Service and Development division can get you the results you need quickly, with confidence. Our staff is dedicated to all projects – big and small.
Lubricants play a critical role in mechanical performance, but developing the perfect lubricant requires precision. At King Industries, we offer extensive testing and formula development for lubricant applications which use corrosion prevention, demulsibility, extreme pressure, anti-wear, oxidation, along with many other performance indicators. Our team is also highly skilled at formulating for environmental compliance and carbon footprint reduction initiatives, so we understand the complex challenge of balancing our customer’s performance needs against environmental regulations to deliver innovative solutions.
We push lubricants to their limits, simulating real-world scenarios to uncover weaknesses and areas for improvement. Through our wide variety of formulation knowledge, testing equipment and expert interpretation of data, we’re certain that we can help with your formulating needs for hydraulic, RTO, turbine, compression, gear, flushing, heat transfer, high-temperature chain oils, greases, and rust preventatives. For a detailed list of equipment relevant to your work, see below:
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Extreme Pressure / Antiwear: Four ball weld, FE8, FZG, SRV, Timken
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Oxidation: 1,000 hour sludge, DKA, gear oil, RPVOT, PDSC, TOST
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Miscellaneous: AFNOR, air release, Cincinnati Milacron Thermal, demulsibility, Denison filtration, flender foam, gear oil demulsibility, hydrolytic stability, standard foam, steam demulsibility
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Grease: Cone penetration, copper corrosion, dropping point, EMCOR, four ball wear, four ball weld, Norma Hoffman oxidation, oil separation, static rust, water stability
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Rust Preventatives: Acid atmosphere, humidity cabinet, iron chip, Kesternich cabinet, salt fog, stacked stain, water displacement
Additionally, as innovators and specialists in the production of Alkylated Naphthalene, synthetic base stocks, food grade and ecolabel approved additives, we know the potential these technologies can bring to your performance profile and are happy to explore how they can contribute to your needs.
Partner with King Industries for Superior Results
At King Industries, we’re more than just a testing service. We take your project seriously, with curiosity and genuine interest in helping. When we know the root of your challenge, our entire toolbox of solutions is employed, from the use of existing core chemistries to the development of completely new technology developed specifically for you, again...giving your product and brand a level of distinction and competitive advantage that will stand the test of time and most importantly – generate new sales and opportunities for the future.
Ready to work smarter, not harder? Contact King Industries and discover how our technical services can take your formulas to the next level.