Testing of coatings and surface treatments

We help to improve the properties of materials and components through:

• Coating and surface modification processes specific to each industrial purpose.
• Support in the proper selection of materials and in the application of surface treatments and/or coatings.
• Evaluation of performance of materials under laboratory and industrial conditions.
• Collaboration in the development of specialised equipment or support in its selection.
• Coating and surface modification services and technology transfer.

• Anti-corrosion coatings: aerospace, automotive applications, e.g.
• Tribological: Hard and self-lubricating coatings, nitriding, duplex processes (space , aeronautical, engines, machining applications, etc.)
• For aesthetic and staining protection: stripping, surface cleaning, decoration.
• With optical properties: Customised reflectance, transmittance and absorptance (e.g. solar power).
• With modified/functionalised surfaces: self-cleaning, hydrophobic/hydrophilic surfaces.
• For protection against fatigue-wear: nitriding, duplex processes.
• With electrical properties: insulators, conductive and dielectric coatings, prevention of the corona effect.
• With biomedical properties: antimicrobial coatings

• All industries that focus on solving industrial problems such as wear, erosion, ageing, corrosion or bio-fouling, etc.,and on improving the functional properties of materials and components (electrical contact resistance, optical properties, self-cleaning, anti-frost, anti-microbial, anti-fouling, etc.).