Sure2Coat

The project:

The Sure2Coat ambition is to make a significant contribution to the twin digitalized and sustainable transition and an increased competitiveness of European manufacturing businesses stimulating new innovation ecosystems by developing and integrating sustainable surface treatments for complex shape components for transsectorial industrial innovation.

The Sure2Coat concept is to develop and integrate new or optimized STs (surface treatments and coating) methods into manufacturing lines (TO1), and demonstrated through 3 use cases (TO3 and TO4). The results will give significant contributions to the European manufacturing industry and EUs growth strategy (TO5). Through the respective use cases, Sure2Coat will demonstrate end user’s reduction of energy use and reduced energy and material consumption, CO₂ emissions and pollution during production.

The success of the Sure2Coat project is founded on the collaborative work between 12 industry and research partners from 7 European countries. The partners involved will work in partnership on different tasks, from the optimization and development of technologies, to the communication, dissemination and exploitation of results.

CIDETEC’S role in the project:

CIDETEC Surface Engineering will develop and test anaphoretic e-coatings with the aim of replacing stainless steel with e-coated aluminum for metal housings of electrical engines in F&B industry. The coatings will be produced both by immersion and Brush Plating to select the most appropriate technology that produces coatings with the required properties and that could be integrated in current manufacturing lines.