Aerospace Reviews

APS Materials is a company that excels in aerospace coating. With 35
years of experience, APS Materials has been serving companies with our
thermal spray coating solutions longer than anyone else in the business.
We are so trusted because we hold our products to the highest of
standards. As a result, we are certified by NADCAP and AS 9000 and are a
trusted and utilized brand by big, high profile names, such as General
Electric, Rolls Royce, and Pratt & Whitney. Our plasma coating
offers higher tensile strengths, improved corrosion resistance, and
better wear properties than any other company and any other method.

Our aircraft and jet turbine components work with
General Electric Airline Engine Group due to our exorbitantly high
standards. Because we demand so much of our products, we are one of the
only approved suppliers for GE. In our land based turbine market, we
provide a complete line of spray coatings required by the gas turbine
industries. The cost of replacing the components is so much higher than
the plasma coating or the thermal spray, so our options are a wise and
cost effective business decision.

The founders of APS Materials
were a group that believed in expanding the aerospace coating technology
into the OEM marketplace, resulting in many Research and Development
programs in companies such as Rocketdyne and Aerojet Corp. Marquardt,
and in government agencies such as NASA, DOD, and DOE. As a result, APS
is now a leader in the industry.

The arc plasma process starts
out with an inert gas, such as nitrogen, helium, or argon, or some
mixture with a trace of hydrogen. This gas passes through concentric,
water-cooled electrodes. A spark from a separate radio frequency
generator initiates the plasma. The resulting arc is then sustained by a
DC power source that can maintain 1000 amps of current and much more.
It can reach temperatures of 30,000