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Corrosion, Wear and Friction testing, and Surface Characterisation of
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At Poeton, we pride ourselves in serving the customer in quality information as well as in quality coatings.
Poeton are at the forefront of research and development in Surface Engineering, with comprehensive testing facilities, an innovative outlook to new developments and unparalleled project management skills.
We have developed a wide range of new products, licensed them worldwide, undertaken ground-breaking research into all aspects of the surface coating task, including quality, environmental, industrial performance and processing, as well as underpinned our work with unique coating selection software packages. |
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With such a background, Poeton can offer an unrivalled technical service to our customers.
Poeton are regularly commissioned for specific R&D projects, testing or characterisation by customers, users and suppliers from around the world.
We have a superb track-record in producing accurate, unbiased results, well packaged, and at competitive prices. |
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Our Services to Industry
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Contracted
Research
and Development
- Wear Testing
- Corrosion Testing
- Coating trials
- Support for new coating development
- Component/Coating development trials
Consultancy and Design Support
- Application consultancy
- On site consultations
- Design and material selection advice
- Pre-production trials and testing
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Failure Analysis Projects
and Coating Characterisation
- Optical Microscopy
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Metallography
- Chemical analysis
- Atomic absorption technique
- benchmarking
Training
- Application and selection workshops
- Process Training
- Tribology and corrosions
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Testing Facilities and Capabilities
Tribology
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Taber
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Pin-on-Disc
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Reciprocating Wear Tester |
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- Taber Abrasion, to ASTM F1978-00e1 and D4060-01
- Pin-on-Disc Sliding Wear and Friction Tester, to ASTM G99-95a
- Reciprocating Wear and Friction Tester
- Corrosive Wear Tester (reciprocating)
Corrosion
- Neutral Salt Mist Cabinet, to ASTM B117-97, BS 7479:1991 and ISO 9227:1990
- Humidity Cabinet, to ASTM D1748-00, including Ford cyclic corrosion test BI 123 001 and Subaru
bench cyclic corrosion test.
- Outdoor Exposure Rig
Panels and samples tested above can be ranked to Customers own specification or ASTM D1654-92
- Dry SO2 Exposure, accelerated testing of coatings exposed to atmospheres containing sulphur dioxide such as high sulphur fuels or industrial atmospheres.
- Electrochemical testing, to ASTM G71-81, Potentiostatic determination of corrosion rate of single metals/coatings in varying electrolytes. Determination of Galvanic series for specific environments. Galvanic corrosion testing.
- Corrosive Wear Testing, testing combination of corrosive atmosphere and adhesive wear to measure overall coating performance.
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Blistering in a Nickel Coating - SEM View
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High Quality Metallography to show splitting in the Ni coating
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Metallography and Surface Studies
- Micro-hardness Tester, Quality control hardness testing of coatings. Testing worn or damaged parts for failure analysis. BS EN ISO 4516:2002
- Metallurgical Microscope, Quality control inspection of composite coatings. Image analysis to determine composition. Testing worn or damaged parts for failure analysis. Determination of failure modes
- Stereo Microscope, Macro examination of components and surfaces. Examination of wear scars. Examination of worn or damaged parts
- Scanning Electron Microscopy, Surface characterisation, compositional analysis, including light elements, failure analysis
Poeton enjoy excellent working relationships with no less than 12 UK Universities. If we need anything more specialised in the way of analysis, we can immediately call upon that wide-ranging academic expertise. |
At Your Company Site
Consultancy -
We will visit you on site if required, viewing potential applications, advising on design and materials with the eventual surface coating in mind, or examine worn or damaged parts in the field.
Often, we can take surface replicas of damaged or worn areas on large parts and evaluate the failure mechanism back in our laboratory.
For the most tricky selection problems we will bring along our unique ISIS (Link) software package and talk you though the logic. If it recommends that you use a coating that Poeton doesn't offer, then so be it! That's what you pay for; sound. Impartial advice.
Training -
Poeton are skilled in all primary applications of surface coatings. We can present workshops or seminars for your key application engineers, with professional Power Point presentations with quality hard-copy handouts.
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What do you get for your money?
Poeton R&D Services undertake to provide you with a professional, well-managed and reported package of work.
It will be unbiased, accurate and thorough, aimed at solving YOUR problems, and NOT providing business for our coating services.
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How to take advantage of our R&D Technical Services |
| Just email us at: |
| KeithStevens@poeton.co.uk or JohnArcher@poeton.co.uk |
| We will get straight to you to arrange a meeting and to plan out a programme. Our work is efficient and our charges are competitive. |
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