Research & Development

Advanced Coatings Developments

Work on coatings is aimed at responding to the market drive to reduce coatings costs and maintain the Group’s position in the market for coated products. Within this, four work streams have been defined i.e. physical vapour deposition, development of zinc free coated products for current and future applications, high speed galvanising and high speed organic coating lines.

The physical vapour deposition (PVD) project is a joint development with POSCO in Korea. It is based on a PVD process developed by Tata Steel Europe that uses electromagnetic levitation of the metal(s) to be deposited.