Oerlikon Metco, Switzerland, is revolutionizing thermal spray equipment with digitalization and the implementation of Metco IIoT, the first Industry 4.0 platform for the thermal spray industry.
Scientists at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., invented a coating that could dramatically reduce friction in common load-bearing systems with moving parts, reducing the friction of steel rubbing on steel at least a hundredfold.
Castolin Eutectic, Belgium, introduced XupersoniClad in the European market, a new thermal spraying service leveraging supersonic spraying technology with significant advantages in the protection of components, vessels, and structures from abrasion, erosion, and wear.
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Rotameters are one of three basic types of devices used in the thermal spray to control gas flow, a much-disputed topic in the thermal spray industry that wrestles with issues including the type of measurement instrument, its calibration, accuracy, and so on.
