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Engineering the surface of manufactured parts and products often provides a vital role for improved performance, better reliability, cost savings and added value. Modification of surface properties can provide significant improvements in corrosion and wear resistance, thermal insulation, bio-activity, electrical properties or even simply appearence. Surface engineering can be carried out at the nano-scale with the re-arrangement of atomic layers or the creation of nano-structures up to the coating of large structures such as bridges and oil platforms.

Surface Engineering is exploited within most industrial sectors but information and advice on how to exploit this technology is often fragmented and uncoordinated, with expertise residing in a disparate body of suppliers, users, trade organisations and research institutions. SurfaceWeb is intended to provide an initial guide to this filed together with links to more detailed resources.

Please follow these links for further information or if you require specific assistance then please contact us at CA Technology Ltd.: catechnology@btinternet .com

About this Area

These SurfaceWeb pages were originally compiled by a consortium of industrial companies with funding from the European Comunity's Esprit programme. The project was named 'SAMSON' and the partner companies were CA Technology (UK), A T Poeton (UK), Euromat (Germany), Flametal (Italy), Comint (Spain) and ESIL(Ireland). The Information Technology and Web-Link aspects were managed by the IT Innovation Centre at Southampton (UK). The pages are now being hosted by CA Technology Ltd.