The Fricso technology is not a coating but delivers coating-like performance at a fraction of the time, cost and maintenance, Fricso CEO Amir Weisberg said. Metal parts treated with SET enjoy high wear resistance and improved energy efficiency in the engines.

Fricsos SET eliminates existing stages in the finishing of parts, Lior Ben-Tsur, companys vice president, sales and marketing, explained. Fricso licenses SET to parts manufacturers and vehicle assembly plants, where the manufacturers can use existing mass-production machines with Fricso devices.

The Fricso treatment is a dry lapping process, Ben-Tsur said. The key innovation of the technology is that after the polymer treatment, an organic nanolayer is created on the surface. When the parts are assembled into an engine and the engine runs, oil is being used to create a film between the moving parts, to reduce friction. In severe working conditions … and heavy load between the parts … the parts that were treated with Fricso technology retain the oil and reduce friction.

The process is suitable for hardened steel, alloys, aluminum, cast iron and chrome-coated rough surfaces. It is cost-effective, the company said, because Fricso polymer lapping is an in-line production process, therefore suitable for mass production, unlike batch processes such as coatings.

The company, founded in 2003 by tribologists Boris Shamshidov and Alexander Ignatovsky, currently employs 20 people.