Metal Spraying

The process of metal spraying is to mix and ignite gas fuel and oxygen to produce a flame. The wire material is fed into the flame. The material is then melted and compressed air passing through the spray nozzle atomises and the molten metal is sprayed onto the surface.

The benefit of using this technology is to protect and greatly extend the life of a product in hostile environments and situations were coatings are essential for longevity.

Metal spraying has been around for many many years and has proven itself to be very effective in a wide range of applications. Metal spraying is a very flexible process, that can be applied to a wide range of materials. Basically if a material can be heated to its melting point without boiling away, than the material can be sprayed. The process is also transportable, so structural steelwork can be sprayed on-site or repaired, where other processes may have removed the galvanising.

This process is also suitable for structural components which cannot be dipped into a galvanising bath due to a large size, or for objects that would become distorted during a hot-dip galvanising. This method is also used on sections of objects that cannot be accessed by hot-dip galvanising.