Our services
Metal Improvement Company’s (MIC) services are used to enhance performance and extend the life of critical components, prevent premature failures and enable component designs to achieve their maximum performance. These include:
Shot Peening
MIC’s controlled shot peening process is a cost effective and practical application used to reduce or eliminate tensile stresses resulting from externally applied loads or from manufacturing processes such as welding, grinding or machining.
Grinding
MIC’s grinding can be applied to structures such as aircraft wing skins to create the curvature that enhances lift and efficiency and also to correct distortion of components following manufacturing processing.
Peening
The technique of laser peening induces a high precision compressive residual stress into key areas of a component up to 5 to 10 times deeper than other conventional cold working techniques.
Abrasive
An abrasive is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which means polishing it to gain a smooth, reflective surface.
Thermal Conductivity
MIC are specialists in thermal processing which relieve stresses within fabricated metal components; control surface and through hardness requirements which enhance overall strength and ductility.
Corrosion Protection
protection of the surface by coatings and, where fatigue can result, in combination with deep residual compressive stresses are both essential to minimize this problem.
Power Coating
Using MIC’s expertise to establish the most appropriate coating for a component will enable the use of less expensive metals, improve part wear life and reduce maintenance costs.
Onsite Processing
MIC has the capability of performing on-site processing worldwide to help customers avoid the logistics and costs of shipping oversize components and minimising downtime.
