Our goals through Development & Innovation are to bring new and INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS to the market in order to respond to customer needs. The core development themes are: understanding wear, developing materials and optimal microstructures together with latest processes. Thanks to their daily contact with customers, our technician experts encounter every year new parts subjected to wear phenomena at your plant.
Our answer to customer problems consists of:
- Products, processes, applications, and production engineering
- 700 Sales staff with technical degrees
- Core team of 30 Development people employed in 12 countries
- 9 PhDs working on various projects
- 4-5 patent applications per year
Our R&D is decentralized involving: France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Japan, India and Brazil. The advantage of this modern R&D structure and progressive communication is that excellent researchers around the globe can be fully utilized, without having to uproot them from a creative environment.
Bringing theory to reality
Some new successful applications One of our innovations is in the field of nanotechnology. Although it is constantly being hailed as the driving force for the future, nanotechnology remains very expensive and is found mainly in the fields of biomedical, electronics, communications, etc. Castolin Eutectic have been able to convert this laboratory scale material into an affordable welding product and traditional industrial customers have been surprised that they can already benefit today from this new science with a NanoAlloy® range including: welding and brazing consumables, wearplate, CastoTube® and powders.
Hardbanding solutions for the Oil & Gas industry: Every year, extensive wear on casing and drilling tool joints costs the Oil & Gas Industry millions. Our answer to this growing problem is the development of the OTW-12 alloy. This alloy has been formulated to confer optimum hardbanding wear resistance in open hole drilling situations whilst retaining “casing friendly” properties.
OTW-12 is a gas shielded flux-metal cored welding wire specifically developed for Hardbanding drilling tool joint applications. Its peripheric arc characteristics ensure: lower heat input, reduced dilution, better bonding, shallow heat affected zone and minimal undercutting.
Industry proven Spray and Fuse alloys for boiler repair: Castolin Eutectic was amongst one of the first companies to recognise and offer nickel based self fluxing alloys as a wear and corrosion resistant coating for boiler tubes in the 1980s and have developed a considerable reputation and experience with these alloys. A novel high molybdenum, high silicon alloy was developed and patented for severe corrosive environments. This solution combined the inherent properties of such fused coatings (such as diffusion bonding, zero through porosity) with improved performance over even welded 625 type alloys.
