Thermal Spray Application for the Next Millennium A Business Development Perspective

For over 60 years, thermal spraying technology has advanced steadily in aerospace, power generation, and biomedical applications. Worldwide R&D efforts have produced new coating materials, new functionalities, and new processes with significant application potential in the near term. Likewise, more project teamwork, more market driven R&D, and end used education will carry thermal spraying into the next millennium.