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Founded in 1982, Surmet Corporation is a world leader in surface metallurgy, engineered coatings and advanced materials solutions. From its start as a small R&D company over twenty five years ago, Surmet has grown to several facilities, a network of sales engineers and a staff of dedicated manufacturing technicians, applications engineers and support personnel, with state-of-the-art coating and testing facilities ready to meet the challenges of its global markets. Since its inception, Surmet has been focused on developing advanced materials solutions for industry's toughest problems. Our research and development team and senior management are located in our Burlington, Massachusetts headquarters.

Surmet's core coating technologies include low temperature, high vacuum Physical Vapor Deposition and interface micro engineering. Surmet's proprietary technologies allows deposition of high performance coatings molecule by molecule, with precise control of thickness, while the substrate is held at relatively low temperatures. Reduction of contamination and the virtual elimination of submicroscopic and larger particles from process environments are on the wish list of industries ranging from medical instrumentation to semiconductor equipment manufacturing. Surmet's coatings are particularly useful in applications where wear debris, or coating and material dust cannot be tolerated. Our advanced engineering capabilities can create a coating for almost every imaginable need - biocompatibility, wear resistance, particle reduction, or increased lubricity under many and varied service conditions.

Dr. Suri Sastri, FASM (Fellow, ASM International) Surmet's founder and Chief Technologist, headed Gillette's Materials R&D laboratories for many years and was the inventor of Platinum Plus™ coatings on premium products.

At Surmet, Dr. Sastri has developed many innovative coating technologies that significantly improve the operating performance of the underlying ceramic or metal substrates. Surmet-engineered coatings have found widespread and successful use in applications for semiconductor process chambers, biomedical implant devices, the Hubble telescope and many other high performance systems that depend on precision ceramic and metal components.

Surmet serves a long list of loyal and satisfied corporate customers ranging from small, technology- based companies to Fortune 500 firms and agencies of the U.S. Government.