Surface Engineering

endika · June 19, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The IntAIRCOAT conference is a biannual event of major interest for learning about the trends set by large aeronautical OEMs and their chemical products and equipment suppliers. This year, the conference held in Hamburg from 13 to 15 May, dealt with the following main points:

REACh and environmental aspects
Process automation
Special effect surfaces and new paint technologies
Efficiency and process optimization
Additional session: Internal aircraft coating

For CIDETEC, Dr. Jorge Rodriguez spoke about the progress of the Clean Sky Ecoland and Chopin projects in front of an audience from the USA, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, getting an insight into the trends that AIRBUS and BOEING are setting in the field of pre-treatments and paints.

As part of the conference, a visit was made to the FAL (Final Assembly Line) painting hangars of Airbus-Hamburg, demonstrating the painting of an A320, an A321 and an A380. The fuselage and the wings of the apparatus are painted in these FAL units, while the rest of the parts, including the moving parts of the wing, arrive already painted.

For more information on the IntAIRCOAT Conference 2019 go to https://www.intaircoat.com/

For more information on the ECOLAND project go to https://cidetec.es/es/proyectos/surface-engineering-7/ecoland

For more information on the CHOPIN project go to http://www.chopin-project.eu/

endika · June 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Maintaining competitiveness in international markets while continuing with research and development (R&D) to bring new products to the market is a major challenge, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. The successful validation of technologies from the lab through to the pilot scale is a key factor. Only the speedy resolution of production problems through “learning by doing at pilot plant scale” leads to a successful run and is very important for a product or service to reach and be accepted by the market. As a result, the regional availability of pilot production lines is of paramount importance in order to quickly bring the pilot run to success.

For this reason, the NanoMikroWerkstoffePhotonik.NRW (NMWP.NRW) Cluster organised the seminar on “Pilot production lines for an innovative industry based on key enabling technologies“, with the support of Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH and the European Pilot Production Network (EPPN). In addition to members of NRW, numerous guests from all over Europe took part in the seminar. The EPPN workshop was mainly addressed to the members of the EPPN network project.

Dr. Jaime Ochoa, business developer of CIDETEC Surface Engineering, took part in the event giving a presentation on the pilot plant capabilities of the three CIDETEC centres: Surface engineering (e-coating plant, in use within the European project Clean Sky2 ECOLAND), Nanomedicine (nano-pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, developed and validated within the framework of the H2020-PILOT NANOPILOT project) and Energy Storage (manufacture of electrodes and battery cells, example of a plant providing services both to customers and participating in numerous European projects).

On the second day of the event, COATEMA opened its R&D centre to anyone interested in order to give a deeper insight into the pilot production lines that it has. During the workshops, all the participants had the opportunity to see the machines in operation and discuss the applicability to their own needs in technical discussions with COATEMA experts.

endika · June 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment

HABIC, the Basque Country Equipment, Wood and Design Cluster, brings together the main companies in the sector that operate in habitat and home equipment, wood, offices, urban and collective spaces, hotels, etc. Its main objective is to improve the competitiveness of the member companies through cooperation with each other, tackling strategic challenges together that could not be tackled individually. For this purpose, a series of priority areas for work have been defined: technology, internationalisation, the environment and design.

With its membership of HABIC, CIDETEC Surface Engineering confirms its decision to work side by side with leading design companies in the Basque Country, contributing its knowledge of surface processing and finishing technologies, materials and engineering.

For more information on HABIC go to

http://www.clusterhabic.com/

endika · May 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The month 12 meeting of the CHOPIN project was hosted by CIDETEC during March 2019. The event was attended by representatives of the various members of the consortium, with Jesús Palenzuela, representing CIDETEC, acting as the organiser and keynote speaker.

During the course of the meeting the activities of the different working groups were reviewed, with special attention being paid to the results achieved by WP3, dedicated to the development and characterisation of coatings with omniphobic properties for application in coatings with low adherence to insects for the preservation of laminar flow in aeronautics.

The CHOPIN project is aimed at developing long-lasting hydrophobic coatings that can be applied to micro-perforated surfaces normally used for resistance reduction, as well as validating the technology and coating process for mitigating insect contamination under realistic conditions.

The next face-to-face meeting of the consortium will be held in September 2019, at the VKI (Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics) centre in Saint-Genesius-Rode (Belgium).

endika · May 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The seminar, co-organised by CIDETEC Surface Engineering and Fischer, was aimed mainly at managers in the areas of quality, laboratories, production, process engineering, etc. and its purpose was to familiarise the industry with the instrumental methods of surface characterisation and the main factors for a correct evaluation of surface properties at an industrial level.

The programme included presentations by leading experts on topics such as electromagnetic methods, X-ray fluorescence, micro-hardness, scratch test, terahertz radiation and colour and gloss in coatings.

After the presentation by the experts, the attendees were given the opportunity to analyse samples in situ and to take part in the demonstrations of the equipment provided by Fischer.

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