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News Release from: Inovati | Subject: Kinetic metallisation
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 August 2002
Award for metallisation process
Inovati has been awarded an R and D 100 award for 2002 from R and D Magazine for the development of equipment and processes for its low-temperature metal deposition technique, kinetic metallisation.
Inovati has been awarded an R and D 100 award for 2002 from R and D Magazine for the development of equipment and processes for its low-temperature metal deposition technique, kinetic metallisation (KM) KM is capable of depositing fully dense, adherent coatings of a variety of metals on standard metal surfaces without costly surface preparation
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 2 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Coatings of pure copper, stainless steel, nickel, chromium, aluminium, cobalt, titanium, niobium, and other metals, as well as alloys based on these metals are possible on such surfaces as steel, aluminium, titanium, copper, brass etc.
Additionally, braze powders (eg silver, copper, aluminium or nickel-based) can be sprayed out onto parts to be joined and coatings have also been demonstrated on ceramic substrates.
The feedstock material for KM is powder.
The cost of KM is comparable to competitive processes.
Applications include the preparing of corrosion and/or wear-resistant surfaces for parts, machinery and equipment.
Electrically conductive and decorative coatings are also deliverable.
As the powders are deposited at well below their respective melting points, the coatings exhibit very fine grain size and one can avoid heat distortion of the workpiece being coated and interdiffusion of multilayer coatings.
Spray forming of such metals as pure aluminium and Al-SiC composite has also been successfully carried out with fine microstructure in the final material.
Inovati is set up to both contract coat and to sell spray-coating equipment and consumables for KM.
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