Sulzer Metco is the world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of thermal spray materials, equipment and integrated system solutions serving aerospace, automotive, power generation and other specialty markets. Their advanced surface treatments enhance the external properties of a given object by providing protection from mechanical wear, chemical reaction or by altering the surface functionality.
Sulzer Metco supplies handheld, fixed, and robotic equipment to meet specific manufacturing needs, utilizing processes including:
- Plasma
- HVOF (High Velocity OxyFuel)
- Powder & Wire Combustion
- Electric Wire Arc
- Chamber Spraying (VPS, LPPS, LVPS, CAPS)
Sulzer Metco is headquartered in Winterthur Switzerland with thermal spray manufacturing facilities in Westbruy New York, Vowerk Germany and Fort Saskatchewan Alberta. In addition they currently have 17 coating services facilities worldwide.
The speaker Brent Bartlett is a senior Research and Development Technologist at Sulzer Metco Canada and has been with the company for 19 years. Brent is a voting member of the NADCAP (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program) coatings task group, has been a member of the ASM thermal spray society for 8 years, is a certified coating evaluator for General Electric Aero engines and holds a diploma in Metallurgy (ASM) just to name a few of his qualificatiosuch as surface science, equipment theory, process design and selected applications.
