Cladding

Cladding consists in strengthening locally parts by providing alloys or pure materials with specific characteristics only where it is necessary. The parts get the same characteristics as the added material and improve their resistance to wear, corrosion, temperature, or gain abrasion properties, ... The behaviour of parts in ordinary material is improved at low cost.

Advantage of this technique :

The technique of laser cladding on high value-added parts reduce considerably the costs of manufacturing, maintenance or repairing. Parts that are used intensively can be repaired locally with precision and also very few side heatings. Thanks to the perfect control of the material supply clads can be made in a range of 150 mg/min to 80 g/min.

Materials with different physical properties, notably electrical, can be retreated efficiently with this technique. Laser can be used on parts of any dimension or difficult access.