What about IONICS... at Hannover Messe ?
On my way to Hannover Messe 2018...
Today I was inside the facilities of IONICS Surfaces Technologies in Herstal (Wallonia-Belgium) while they were testing the new ionLAB for surface beaming implantation. Here are some exclusive and premium pictures of this innovative industrial technology able to modify the surface of your parts !
On my way to Hannover 2018, I promised I would give you more info on IONICS, Materia Nova and AGC Glass Europe which will be there to present their new extraordinary technologies in the field of plasma technologies for surface modification.
Among other things, you will discover the ionLAB equipment which is able to implant ions into your surface. You may wonder what ion implantation is and why it raises such an industrial interest illustrated by the developments of those 3 partners within an industrial platform called WALIBEAM.
As you may know they are several types of plasma technologies and, in this case, the beaming of a surface with ions under vacuum makes it possible to directly modify the surface of the parts. This is a way to add elements into a surface for adding properties directly into the existing surface.Just imagine that the surface of the treated parts is a skin… When your skin is weak or exposed intensively to cold temperatures, UV, sun or a chemical aggressive environment, you add a “coat” on it. This is what we do with traditional coating technologies on surfaces: we give some protection and add properties to the industrial parts. But this approach often implies the use of polluting wet solutions which are costly to handle and get rid of.
Today, we are now able to modify the surface of your parts without adding “clothes” on the skin but only by modifying the last microns on top of the surface. This allows us to add many properties like improved hardness or anti-reflective characteristics without using any wet polluting technology. And this technology can apply to various materials such as glass, metals (aluminum, steel, stainless steel, etc.) or even polymers (rubber, plastics, etc.).
So what kind of “coat” would you like your parts to wear next winter?
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Stéphane REUL
Business development Manager
+32 470 652 126
stephane.reul@ionics-group.com
