Hardide Coatings Appoints Aerospace Business Development Manager For UK And Europe
Roughley brings ten years aerospace and defence industry engineering and sales experience, joining from Ultra Electronics where she worked since 2001, latterly as Sales & Marketing Manager responsible for all of the company’s civil aerospace and transport aircraft accounts. Previously, she was Programme Manager where she managed aerospace and defence industry programmes from concept to production. Between 1995 and 2001, she progressed through various project and senior engineering roles at Weston Aerospace and Corin Medical Limited.
Roughley holds a BEng. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sunderland, an M.Sc. Materials Engineering from Loughborough University of Technology and an MBA (Management) from the University of Reading.
Neill Ricketts, UK managing director of Hardide Coatings Limited, said: “Paula brings a powerful combination of aerospace sales and engineering, and materials experience together with a strong portfolio of industry contacts. Building on the BAE Systems approval which we secured last year, she will be advancing our industry accreditation and registrations programme including AS9100, as well as developing new business and progressing ongoing customer trials.”
Hardide Coatings has developed a unique tungsten carbide based coating which offers an unprecedented combination of ultra-hardness, toughness, low friction and chemical resistance when applied to components made from steel, alloy and other materials. It is compliant with the new EU REACH regulations and is viewed as an attractive possible alternative to hard chrome and HVOF. The patented coating is widely used around the world in aggressive wear or chemical environments primarily in the oil and gas, valve, pump and aerospace industries.
Its unique combination of properties include:
• Up to 3500 Hv
• accurately controlled thickness ranging from 5 to 100 microns
• resists 3000 microstrain deformation without damage to the coating
• binder-free
• nano-pore, dense, homogeneous structure
• superior bond strength due to chemical bond
• low coefficient of friction
• excellent anti-galling properties and can be used against itself without galling concerns
• satin-like ‘as-coated’ surface finish
Hardide Coatings Limited is a Hardide plc (AIM:HDD) company. The company has production plants in Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK and in Houston, Texas, USA.
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The Hardide Technology
The Hardide coating process is performed in a Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) furnace and is applied to customer supplied components which are heated to 500 degrees depending on the substrate and the application. Once at the desired temperature, a controlled mixture of gases is pumped into the furnace. In the furnace chamber, a chemical reaction takes place between the gases which crystallises on the surface of the components producing a smooth layer of binder-free tungsten carbide coating with abrasion, erosion and chemical resistant characteristics. This process enables all parts of the component including internal surfaces to be coated.
Company Information
Jackie Robinson, Head of Communicationsjrobinson@hardide.com
www.hardide.com
+ 44 (0) 1869 353830 (office)
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