Our markets
Metal Improvement Company (MIC) has over 60 years experience in global markets where the high performance of critical components is demanded. MIC currently has over 60 Divisions in 11 Countries and also has the capability of providing on-site processing worldwide. MIC’s high quality and precision surface treatments operate in a range of markets, including but not limited to:
Aerospace
Where high performance from lightweight materials is demanded, MIC’s surface treatments can extend these performance characteristics by protecting the surface from external damage and extending the cyclic performance.
Automotive
MIC’s surface treatments enable the automotive industry to utilise cost effective, high performance materials capable of withstanding high and variable loads.
Medical
MIC’s high quality, precision surface treatments improve the surface properties of medical components by protecting the surface from the corrosive environment and high load conditions of the human body, improving biocompatibility and extending component life.
Chemical
MIC’s surface treatments are widely used in the chemical processing industry to solve the problems of stress corrosion cracking (SCC), corrosion fatigue, fatigue, intergranular corrosion and galling.
Power Generation
MIC’s processes are used to improve the performance of steam and gas turbine engines, auxiliary parts and equipment and also to reduce the effects of failure modes such as erosion, fretting, fretting fatigue, fatigue and stress corrosion cracking (SCC), particularly in hostile and corrosive environments.
Oil, Gas & Mining
The oil, gas and mining industries use MIC’s processes to control wear, provide damage tolerance and galling resistance and will provide solutions for stress corrosion and sulphide cracking (SSC) and fatigue particularly in harsh and hostile environments.
General Engineering
Surface treatments offered by MIC extend the performance characteristics of component parts by protecting the surface from operating damage and cyclic loads.
