What distinguishes WMV from other plating companies and
laboratories for tribology and material research ?:
- The plating department is highly supported by the laboratory, which facilitates innovative solutions and quality control. The laboratory for tribology and material research is significantly influenced by the experience obtained in the machine plating department. This imparts a practical first approach for the development of research methods.
- All our Lunac processes are unique in the world and the full bond capability for so many (complex) alloys is almost unparalleled due to the vast database we developed in the last 26 years and 6 steps pretreatment.
- We store plating data from every project we receive for reasons of reproducibility.
- WMV is well adapted to carrying out single jobs as well as mass production.
- Most WMV employees are mechanical engineers or chemists and
consequently are able to offer you comprehensive support. - Hanging annealing in partially inert atmosphere
Plating facility and deep furnace. Left the
third 4000 mm (157"), Ø 820 mm / 32.3" plating line, middle the
second 1100 x 520 mm / 1600 Kg plating line and far right a part of the small
first 700 x 400 mm / 1500 Kg plating line. The third production line will be highly
automated and has been designed according to the most recent understandings.
The surrounding pictures display a part of the supporting laboratory equipment.
The WMV vertical forced air circulated furnace can harden up to 4160 mm (163"). An additional construction (picture down left) can be mounted to anneal parts up 4000 mm / 157.5" to 3000 KG in a hanging position!
Various conventional milling, lathe and grinding machines are present for the manufacturing of custom made support systems. The flat and round grinding machines (round up to 3200 mm / 126 ") are equiped with diamond grinding wheels. In this way we can manufacture highly tolerated Lunac 2+ coated products (as low as +/- 2 µm).