Monitor Coatings Limited

SCS proposes THERMOS, an industrial research programme to scale and accelerate its unique Thermal History Coating (THC) technology, addressing a rapidly growing market need for high‐resolution, rapid‐turnaround temperature mapping in engine development. The programme boasts an expert consortium including Monitor Coatings and the University of Nottingham. ...

End users in high value and other manufacturing sectors report low confidence in the long-term performance of both coatings and their processing as a barrier to the introduction of new products dependent on surface engineering and advanced coatings. Responding to this market need this project aims to shift the paradigm from "apply the material you have" t...

Monitor Coatings and TRL9 are both surface engineering companies with customers from all key industry sectors both in the UK and abroad. Over the last 5 years, with the support from Innovate UK, both companies have developed game changing technologies that are shared, through technology transfer licenses, to customers and competitors alike. Such outward t...

The project will develop a Thermal History Coating measurement instrumentation and procedure for accurate temperature profiling of components in the range 900°C to 1500°C in multi-cycle applications

"Engineering components usually fail when the surface cannot adequately withstand the external forces or environment to which it is subjected. The choice of a surface material, with the appropriate thermal properties and sufficient resistance to wear, corrosion and degradation, is crucial to its functionality. Improving the functionality of an existing pr...

The proposed feasbility study is to lay the ground for the development of a novel on-line, non-destructive monitoring technology for the low temperature thermal spray processes based on the acoustic emission (AE) during the coatings. The key objectives are: identification of the elements in the AE of the thermal spray process that contain information abou...

The UK steel industries have been hit hard since 2008, with profitability down by 80% in 2012 from the pre-crisis peak reached in 2008. Production costs in 2014 and 2015 are still at one of the highest levels ever and UK mills find themselves squeezed competing in persistently tight global markets. Monitor Coatings has a patented technology licensed to TA...

The need to reduce CO2 emissions is pushing thermal power plant to use higher operating temperatures and biomass/waste derived fuels, and these factors combine to create demanding environments for heat exchanger tubes. The ‘ER-Sealcoat’ project aims to develop a low cost method of producing customisable coatings that can coat 3D geometries (internal and e...

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...

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...