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Curtiss-Wright’s Metal Treatment segment provides the most advanced technologies to enhance performance and extend the life of critical components by helping prevent premature fatigue and corrosion failures. This enables component designs to achieve their maximum potential. Approximately 90% of our processes are performed on OEM parts and often they are designed-in or specified as proprietary production processes.
Our Metal Treatment segment is a worldwide leader in providing precision metal surface treatments for aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, automotive and general industrial markets. Through a network of 58 facilities in North America and Europe, we provide four primary advanced metal treatment technologies:
- Shot peening (40%) The process greatly enhances the durability of the metal and extends the service life of critical components such as aircraft landing gear and structural components. Shot peen forming takes the process one step further, enabling the metal stretching to precisely shape aerodynamic curvatures in aluminum aircraft wing skins. Today we shape all of the wing skins for Airbus’ commercial jets.
- Laser peening (5%) Utilizing the same principles as shot peening, a laser beam impacts a metal surface with 4 times deeper benefit than shot peening. The result is an unprecedented resistance to fatigue and stress corrosion failure. Since Curtiss-Wright introduced this process in 2003, potential applications have emerged for turbine engines, civil and military aircraft structures, nuclear power generation and waste disposal, petroleum drilling, medical implants and recreational sports.
- Specialty coatings (25%) provide lubrication, corrosion and oxidation resistance for metal components, which enhances their operating performance and longevity. Curtiss-Wright formulates proprietary coatings and applies them to steel, titanium and aluminum components utilized in aerospace, automotive and other industrial applications.
- Heat treating (20%) relieves internal stresses and improves the overall strength, ductility and hardness of fabricated metal parts. Curtiss-Wright specializes in thermal processing of aluminum, titanium and alloy steel components used in aerospace, automotive and general industrial markets.
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