Hardide Coatings has gained Nadcap accreditation, enabling it to provide its advanced tungsten carbide-based coatings to any aerospace prime contractor or their supply chains worldwide.
Hardide Coatings developed Hardide-A for the aerospace and defence industry as a replacement for hard chrome plating, shortly to be banned under EU REACH regulations, and provide an alternative to HVOF, cadmium plating and other coating processes.
Philip Kirkham, CEO of Hardide Coatings, commented: “Aerospace is a key growth market for Hardide and this is a significant achievement and milestone toward realising the clear potential for our coating technology in this sector. An increasing number of aerospace companies require their suppliers to be Nadcap accredited so to be fully approved opens up the market to us.”
“Congratulations to Hardide Coatings Ltd on successfully passing what may be the aerospace industry's most stringent process capability assessment audit,” said Joe Pinto, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Performance Review Institute. “Nadcap audit criteria are widely acknowledged to be hard to meet and companies like Hardide Coatings, who succeed at doing so, rightfully deserve recognition.”
Hardide Coatings, which has manufacturing facilities in Oxfordshire and Virginia, US, confirmed its Hardide-A coating was also approved by Airbus in March this year.