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News Release from: Poeton Industries
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Team on 09 June 2003
Surface treatment R and D wins award
Poeton Industries has won a prestigious award for excellence in R and D.
Poeton Industries has won a prestigious award for excellence in R and D The company's "SMART Achievement Award" was one of only 12 chosen from hundreds of such projects supported by the DTI and the Welsh Development Agency, and is for research into the plasma electrolytic oxidation coating process
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Poeton Industries has recently hosted the first UK testing of a new monitoring system designed to guarantee the quality of thermally sprayed coating as part of the INDOCOT project
Called Apticote Keronite 3000, the new process, licensed from Keronite (Cambridge), was tested on a wide range of lightweight alloys to investigate the tribology, corrosion, effect on fatigue, coverage, hardness and finish.
Poeton also explored the processing and commercial aspects for potential applications.
The award, given for the excellence of the project and the subsequent wide commercial exploitation of the new process, was presented to Poeton's R and D Director Keith Stevens by Adam Hart Davies, the television presenter and historian, at a ceremony held at the British Library in London.
The process, which creates a remarkably tough oxide coating on aluminium, magnesium and titanium surfaces, greatly reduces corrosion, wear and friction, and opens to door for these materials to be used in a wide range of new applications and industrial sectors, from sports-ware to space shuttles.
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