NASA researchers, working with Boeing's ecoDemonstrator Program, are testing non-stick wing coatings designed to minimize insect residue and help reduce aircraft fuel consumption.
PPG Industries’ aerospace coatings group has installed the first commercial system in the United States for application of its aerospace electrocoat (e-coat) primer to aircraft parts at the U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center, Elizabeth City, N.C.
Cadmium travel kits are designed for touch-up applications, specifically for the aerospace industry, and are ideal for aircraft-on-ground (AOG) operations where time is of the essence.
Surface-treatment company Chemetall has been awarded the highest supplier honor in the Airbus Materials & Parts SQIP (Supply Chain & Quality Improvement) program.
Skanska has signed a contract with The Boeing Co. to build its Commercial Airplane Decorative Paint Facility in Charleston, SC. The contract is worth approximately $82 million.
Flying Colours Aviation repainted a QantasLink 717 airplane with a basecoat-clearcoat coatings system by PPG Industries’ aerospace business that delivered a quickly achieved, smooth, high-gloss finish.
Three facilities operated by PPG Industries’ aerospace business have been recognized by Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Aerospace Systems sector with 2013 Platinum Source Preferred supplier awards.
A one-step photoinduced sol-gel and free-radical photopolymerization process was proven to be an efficient process to synthesize hybrid sol-gel coatings with interesting properties, in particular high corrosion protection performance.
A group of specialists from the Center for Research in Advanced Materials (Cimav) in Mexico have developed nanostructured coatings capable of withstanding temperatures exceeding 1000 °C, which are used in aviation turbine components.
PPG Industries has begun operation of a new packaging unit installed at its Gonfreville, France, coatings plant and aerospace application support center.
