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:
Controlled 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.
Shot Peen Forming
MIC’s controlled shot peening process 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.
Laser 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.
Isotropic Finishing (Superfinishing)
CASE sm finishing is a highly successful process used to reduce micro-pitting, oil temperature and noise therefore extending a component’s life and improve performance by removing surface asperities and promoting lubricant retention.
Heat Treatment
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.
Wet Treatments (Anodising)
MIC wet processing techniques improve atmospheric and chemical corrosive resistance and also enhance the application of paint primer and adhesives.
Engineered Coatings
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.
