OPTIMUX is at the forefront of applying innovations in material science to extend the life of its process control equipment. First used in the aerospace industry to harden rocket nozzles on the space shuttle, CVD-5B is a chemical vapor diffusion process using boron wherein a hard wear-resistant metal mesh is fused into the surface of a wide variety of ferrous and non-ferrous materials.

Unlike coatings, during the CVD-5B process, superheated boron atoms are diffused deep into a host surface to form a metal boride layer that permeates evenly up to .015’’. OPTIMUX has harnessed and perfected this advanced technology to, in many cases, effectively extend the life of our valves more than 10 fold.