Ceramic Oxide Powder Materials for Thermal Spray
The application of thermal spray ceramics on metallic surfaces offers improved surface properties. Examples include heat or electrical insulation, wear and corrosion resistance.
Proven surfaces for many different applications
Uses for thermally sprayed ceramic materials are very wide. Just a few to say:
- Diesel engine pistons
- Automotive valves and cylinders
- Aircraft and industrial gas turbine combustion liners, thermal barrier coatings for blades
- Electrolytes, interconnections, cathodes and anodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC)
- Anilox and corona rollers for the printing industry
- Calendar rollers, corrugated rollers and scraper blades for paper production
- Oxygen sensors for selective gas permeability
- Spray targets used in Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) coating applications
- Fiber and yarn guides for textile production
- Biomedical implants
- Industrial applications such as metal casting grooves, hydraulic cylinders and mechanical seals
Wide range of standard powder chemistries
We store and supply the following ceramic powders
- Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ)
- Alumina
- Chromium in
- Titania
- Lanthanum Strontium Manganite (LSM)
- Chemical combinations
Optimized Products
We supply powders with particle size distributions that are optimized for the following coating processes:
- Atmospheric Powder Spray (APS)
- Combustion Powder Thermospray
- Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition (PS-PVD)
Our ceramics are strategically produced in the most convenient way to the application. For example, we supply Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) materials in two formats:
- Agglomerated and condensed, spherical powders – best for standard porosity, high deposit efficiency applications
- Agglomerated and sintered powders – high porosity, best for thick TBC coatings
