Thermal Spray Application for the Next Millennium A Business Development Perspective

Abstract

Abstract For over 60 years, thermal spray has achieved outstanding technological and commercial progress in the aerospace, gas turbine, engineering and biomedical Industries. Worldwide active R&D efforts have enabled today new deposits, new fonctionalities and new processes to be achieved and that could meet during the early next century some untapped innovation needs of new large breakthrough markets. More project teamwork, more market driven R&D and enduser education efforts will certainly successfully fuel thermal spraying into a bright future for the next milleimium.