More competitive manufacturing industry in Europe by extending component lifetime
Consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd up scales novel material solution to extend lifetime of industrial components. Extended lifetime reduces material and energy losses enhancing competitiveness and productivity of Europe’s heavy industry, while lowering environmental impact of the manufacturing. Wear leads to huge material and energy losses in industry causing 3% of the world’s total energy consumption. Wear-resistant coatings, such as tungsten carbide, WC-Co, coatings, enhance components’ durability leading to significant cost-savings. However,