STRATFORD, CT--(Marketwire - Mar 19, 2013) - Since the 1990s, the Department of Defense, US airlines, Canadian military and airline industries, and support manufacturers have sought environmentally friendly alternatives to hard chrome plating. Various methods have been developed, including thermal spraying, but each has had limitations, notably unsuitability for coating non line of sight (NLOS) small inside diameter bores and complex part geometries.