The venture is called “RELO-COAT” and concerns with the developing of a new powder manufacturing method for low friction and self lubricant powder types prior to replace hard chrome plating. Well-known manufacturer und R&D Institutes are in the consortium.

With our robot-based coating installation for plasma and high-velocity flame spraying (HVOF), Thermico participate in the development and extension of the robot and automation centre RACe, a focus of TechnologieZentrumDortmund which promises trend-setting impulses for Dortmund’s economic development. The result is a great synergy potential with existing skills in the sectors of biomedicine, proteomics, micro system technology, electronics, logistics and software.

Projekt Ruhr GmbH has classed and approved the RACe project as a communal development focus for the region. The RACe project is considered a model project for the development of Dortmund as an industrial and trade location.

In March of this year, Thermico notched up a tremendous success: following a 5-month delivery period, a plasma spraying centre for WSK, a subsidiary of the American engine manufacturers, Pratt-Whitney, was launched in Rzezów, Poland.