Enhancing the performance of metals and materials

Through its long experience in the aerospace surface treatment industry Metal Improvement Company understands the problems that its customers face in meeting the increasing technical demands from designers and engineers to prevent component failures, enhance performance and reduce aircraft component maintenance costs.

As a worldwide company we employ people who are recognised specialists within their fields of expertise who can provide customers with the best technical advice and solutions to meet their design and manufacturing requirements, enabling their products to achieve their best potential both before and during service.

Our services include:

Controlled shot peening, shot peen forming, laser peening, aerospace engineered coatings, C.A.S.E. (isotropic finishing), peentex (textural finishing) and on-site aerospace surface processing

Metal Improvement Company, LLC

European Corporate Office

Hambridge Lane

Newbury

Berkshire RG14 5TU

Phone: +44 1635 279621

Email:eurosales@metalimprovement.com

For more information please view our website: www.metalimprovement.co.uk

Are your components ……..

Suffering from fatigue?

Cracking under pressure?

Looking worse for wear?

Solution

Metal Improvement Company provides quality controlled and cost effective aerospace surface treatments for premature fatigue prevention and surface treatments for corrosion failures enabling critical components to achieve their maximum potential.

Established since 1945 with over 60 Divisions in 11 Countries, including 7 Divisions in the UK and worldwide on-site aerospace shot peening available.

Approvals: FAA approved shot peening, NADCAP, AS9100 shot peening, ISO 9001:2000 and 9001:2008 plus other specific company/industry approvals as appropriate

Processes: Controlled Shot Peening, Shot Peen Forming, Laser Peening, Engineered Coatings, C.A.S.E. (Isotropic Finishing), Peentex (textural finishing) and On-site processing

Protection from material failures

Fatigue protection: Initiation and propagation of cracks can be prevented or controlled by the tailored application of sustainable residual compressive stresses

Galling protection: Adhesion of opposing surfaces when in contact can be minimised by a coating protection and/or changes in material properties in the near surface area

Fretting prevention: Fretting damage can lead to fretting fatigue which can be minimised by the protection of the base material through coatings and/or alteration of the mating surface contact points and deep residual compressive stresses

Stress corrosion cracking prevention: The removal of surface tensile stresses or reduction below threshold levels can eliminate stress corrosion cracking

Corrosion protection: Surfacescan be protected against corrosion by the application of specialist coatings and, where appropriate, the induction of residual compressive stresses

Intergranular Corrosion prevention: Shot peening disrupts the grain boundary network at the metal surface, thus removing the pathway for the corrodant to travel, avoiding any intergranular attack.

Wear prevention: The wear can be lessened by reducing friction characteristics and/or increasing or altering mating hardness

We serve the Global Aerospace Metal Improvement Market

Metal Improvement Company

Subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright Corporation

+44 (0)1635 279621

eurosales@metalimprovement.com

www.metalimprovement.co.uk