Describing what they do as providing "elemental solutions for space age challenges" Tribologix develops and integrates solid lubrication technologies designed to enhance and enable systems that contain moving mechanical components. Tribologix Inc protects products by taking control of friction and wear through the use of advanced nanocomposite smart coating technologies. The firm reports having made significant investments into new technology to improve both the firm's deposition methods as well as their analytical tools to continue to improve the performance of coatings. i-Kote and their other dry film lubricants outperform out competitors by orders of magnitude and the in-house effort is to widen that gap. The firm's coatings are in use in countless aerospace and defense mechanisms, in orbit all around the globe, and even on other planets!. In January 2023 it was reported that AEI backed AIM MICRO had acquired suface-coating provider Tribologix Inc.