Coating Technologies
- High Velocity Oxygen Fuel Spraying (HVOF) able to process powders and suspensions
- Processing of nano powders is possible
- System TopGun™; fuelled with acetylene, ethene, propane, hydrogen and kerosene
- Atmospheric Plasma Spraying (APS). Diverse DC based single cathode torches (GTV F1, F4, F6); three cathode torch (GTV Magnum)
- Plasma gases: argon, helium, hydrogen and nitrogen
- Electric wire arc spraying
- Three spray cabinets with 6 axis industrial robots
- All cabinets are equipped with PLC: Siemens S7
- Lacquer spray cabinet with 6 axis robot for application of polymer based coatings
- Grit blasting devices for substrate pre-treatment
Diagnostics
- In-situ diagnostic: infrared online thermography and pyrometry
- Particle inflight diagnostic (PID): SprayWatch
Systems engineering
- Spray dryer
- Hydraulic press 100 t; cold dry and warm pressure molding
- Injection molding machine
- Kneader
Compounding
- Ball mill
- Bead mill
Grinding Tools
- Kugelmühle
- Trommelmühle
- Perlmühle
High temperature treatment
- High temperature chamber kiln with graphite heating elements up to 2500 °C, 80l packing space
- Special chamber kiln for controlled pyrolysis up to 1100 °C
- chamber kiln with hydrogen atmosphere
- Chamber kiln for graphitising
- Tube kiln with controller, vacuum pump and thermostat
- Elevator kiln for oxide ceramics
- Tempering kiln
- Ceramic kiln
Analytic
- Dilatometer
- Rheometer
- Hg-Porosimeter
- BET-Porosimeter
- Powder size characterisation
- Zeta master
- Surface roughness measurements
- Dynamic micro hardness measurements 4 mN to 1000 mN load
- Vickers hardness testing HV0,1 - HV10, also used for toughness measuring
- Impedance spectroscopy / electrochemical workstation
- Wetting angle and surface energy measurements
- Thermal analysis; DSC, DTA, TG
Metallography
- Thin section preparation
- Image analysis for microscopy
- Light microscopy, polarised light microscopy
- scanning electron microscope Hitachi S-800 (FE-SEM, fully digitized)
Materials and Component Testing
- Universal testing machine Zwick Z100/TL3A
- Tribometry, Pin on Disc, oscillating and rotating
- 3D coordinate measuring machine
- High Voltage testing device
- Residual stress analysis, micro hole drilling method