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HyProMag is looking to develop protective coating solutions for sintered neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets. HyProMag's patented technology provides a route for manufacturing rare earth magnets utilising end of life components as feedstock. Sintered NdFeB magnets are ubiquitous today and are used in a wide variety of applications from loudspeakers to EV...

This project will mature and validate a range of innovative materials and processes to underpin a future wide-body Business Class (BC) seat to be known as "EcoSuite" and to enable substantial enhancements to Wide-body First Class (FC) bespoke seats. The innovations introduced via EcoSuite are aimed at addressing market concerns around weight, environmenta...

Industrial sectors including aerospace, automotive & defence rely heavily on adhesive bonding for structural strength & lightweighting, reducing the need for riveting & welding. Bonding systems for aluminium alloys comprise surface pretreatment, bond primers & structural adhesives. The state-of-the-art surface treatment & bond primers used in the aerospac...

Thermal management of components in the hot sections of jet engines is critical to the development of more efficient engines and thereby to the delivery of the industry's ambitious emissions reductions targets. To date there are no methods available providing component temperature mapping without data gaps, without REACH restrictions and without commercia...

The proposed project is to advance the formulation of a novel SolGel Magnesium (Mg) pretreatment, which has succesfully demonstrated feasibility in a recently concluded Technology Inspired Innovation between Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and Indestructible Paint Limited (IPL). With a view to the ultimate exploitation as part of a Chromate (Cr6+) free ...

Hexavalent chromates set the benchmark for corrosion protection for a number of industries and they are essential for the safety of current Aerospace products. However, EU REACH legislation has tightly restricted the sale and use of these chemical substances which creates a business continuity threat to the UK and EEA supply chains. One key technology is ...

European legislation (REACh regulations) requires the elimination of hexavalent Chromium (Cr6+), which is carcinogenic, by September 2017. Existing sacrificial coatings, used for corrosion protection in aerospace, all contain Cr6+ and, therefore, must be replaced. Currently available alternatives do not give acceptable performance, so new replacement mate...

The aerospace engine and industrial gas turbine industry have historically used corrosion resistant coatings manufacturfed from precursors that contain hexavalent chrome. These slurry based coatings are cost effective and offer the best corrosion resistance. The REACH regulations will ban the use of the hexavalent chrome precursors from Septmber 2017. New...

Indestructible Paint Limited, in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam Universities Materials Engineering Research Institute shall undertake a 12 month programme of development work in order to progress novel, initially successful materials, which can potentially be used as a substitute for Chromate coatings of Magnesium alloys. Chromates are set to be bann...

The development of the Thermal History Paint, conceived and patented by SCS, is much needed in a wide range of industrial markets. The paint records temperature information by going through irreversible changes which can be detected non-destructively using specialised hand-held read-out equipment. The system, comprising the paint read-out device, has seve...

Cr6+ chemistry dominates the field of corrosion protection; however, its elimination by 2016 as currently recommended by REACH, requires new alternates to be found. Some alternatives have been proposed, but there is no wide acceptance of them and the acceptance criteria and test regime to support new developments, other than salt fog testing, which is wid...

A consortium consisting of Energenics Europe Ltd, Indestructible Paint Ltd and Monitor Coating Ltd has been awarded a TSB grant to develop a nanoparticle-based coating solution for high performance applications. Aerospace coatings are expected to perform in demanding environments and are subjected to very high levels of UV exposure which degrades their st...