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up product marketing in the newly set up Thermal Spray and Nickel and Cobalt alloys. The processes used are: Plasma
Powder Division. Spray, HVOF, HVAF and THIN FLASH CARBIDE.
At Ador, he stayed for long 10 years. He had his career
progression and soon became the Divisional Manager of Spreading the knowledge
Metco Thermal Spray Div. in 1987. Bindagi received special Bindagi is keenly interested and is working towards
training in thermal spray and tribology at Metco, Australia and expanding applications in turbine industry, medical implants
product training at Sulzer Metco, USA. He was instrumental in and other new frontiers. In his quest to spread knowledge,
introducing advanced Plasma Spray and High Velocity Spray Bindagi also takes students from universities for project work
technologies to MSME sectors in India. His focus was to bring related to tribology and wear metallurgy.
this technology from limited and exclusive users like Air India “Today when I look back, I have the satisfaction of having
and Indian Air Force to private job shops. In the course of this chosen a technology that gives not only enough business
professional career, he presented several papers on ‘thermal traction but also material conservation opportunities to
spraying metallurgy’ at many conferences and national the industries, and most importantly gives me immense
technical seminars organised by IIW, ASM, BARC, VSSC and professional satisfaction,” says the metallurgist in Bindagi.
other institutions. There is substance in what he says. Thermal spray technology
and his company have helped the industry save a lot of
Spraymet comes into being money and materials and helped conserve scarce resources
The year 1994 was a turning point for Bindagi. That was the for the country. May his tribe increase!
year when he grabbed an opportunity that came his way and
decided to bid adieu to service and start on his own, doing
something closer to his heart: propagating the art and science
of tribology, harnessing the proven technologies of thermal
spray, plasma spray and HVOF. Subsequently, It took hardly a
few months for him to give shape to his passion: establishing
his own company in the name and style of Spraymet
Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Today Spraymet is engaged in thermal
spray, HVOF/HVAF coating and hard surfacing. While the
main plant is in Bangalore, Bindagi set up the second plant in
Pune to cater to western India customers especially from the
oil & gas and automobile sectors which are very demanding.

Pioneering hard surface coatings
Spraymet has the distinction of having pioneered the carbide
coatings in the steel mills and galvanizing line roll coating.
The company owns a few proprietary coatings like moly
blends (Spraymet MoB) for metal to metal wear in automotive
transmission parts and Thin Flash carbide (TFC) for oil & gas
valves and plastic processing feed screws.
Spraymet is known for its Carbide coated and hardfaced
components for severe service industry. The range of
coatings includes Tungsten Carbide, Stellite, Inconel and other

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