FW Gartner Thermal Spraying, a business unit of Curtiss Wright Surface Technologies, is an ISO9001:2008 certified, globally connected, but locally focused provider of a broad range of thermal spray and cladding technologies. The company’s core competency is the development, optimization and application of coatings and overlays that protect, enable or restore industrial components across a range of industries, often in critical service environments.

FW Gartner’s facilities also have on-site grinding capabilities and an extensive metallographic laboratory. By utilizing a worldwide network of partnerships and affiliations with other thermal spray coating and laser cladding providers, we are able to support OEMs on an International basis.

About Curtiss Wright Surface Technologies

Curtis Wright Surface Technologies provides advanced technologies to enhance the performance and extend the life of critical components by helping prevent failures.

Through a network of 70 facilities around the world, we provide four primary metal treatment technologies:

• Shot Peening - This process greatly enhances the durability of the metal and extends the service life of such diverse critical components such as downhole drilling equipment, aircraft structural components and automotive transmission gears.
• Laser Peening - Utilizing the same principles as shot peening, a laser beam imports a layer of residual compressive stress that is four times deeper than that attainable from conventional peening treatments. The result is an unprecedented resistance to fatigue and stress corrosion failure. Since Curtiss-Wright introduced this process in 2003, potential applications have emerged for turbine engines, civil and military aircraft structures, nuclear power generation and nuclear waste disposal, petroleum drilling, medical implants and recreational sports.
• Specialty Coatings - Our portfolio of engineered coatings includes thermal spray coatings, solid film lubricants, zinc corrosion resistant and parylene conformal coatings. Curtiss- Wright engineers and scientists have the ability to engineer coating solutions for a broad variety of end use materials and operating environments.
• Materials Testing - Our mechanical, chemical, and metallurgical testing services ensure the integrity of the design and manufacturing processes of critical metal, ceramic and composite components. Our expertise in failure analysis further aids in identifying and solving issues with materials or components that are not performing properly, including coatings/surface treatment issues, improper wear, field failures and fractures.