Surface Engineering (SE) Limited was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between the University of Malta and Tecvac in Cambridge UK. SE Ltd. serves as the commercial arm of the Department of Materials and Metallurgy at the University of Malta.
Since its founding, the company and the University have made substantial investment and purchased a wide range of equipment for bulk heat treatment, surface engineering as well as materials testing and characterization. All the equipment was purchased with the intent of satisfying local industrial requirements as well as teaching and R&D activities carried out within the University.
Customers from industry, students and researchers benefit respectively from the accumulated expertise within the department various within the University and the industrial environment created.
Services offered by SE Ltd. include:-
| BULK HEAT TREATMENTS: |
SURFACE ENGINEERING TREATMENTS: |
- Annealing
- Hardening
- Tempering
- Homogenizing
- Normalising
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- Plasma / Gas Nitriding – Post Oxidation Treatments
- Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) – (TiN and CrN coatings)
- Ion Implantation
- Ion Beam Assisted Deposition (IBAD)
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| TESTING: |
CHARACTERIZATION: |
- Tensile / Compressive / Bend Tests
- Creep
- Fatigue
- Accelerated Corrosion
- Micro / Macro Hardness
- Tribological Tests
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- X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
- Metallographic Characterization (Stereo / Optical microscopes)
- Analytical Investigation
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| OTHER: |
RESULTS ACHIEVED: |
- Failure Analysis
- Material Selection
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Heat and Surface Engineering treatments carried out at SE Ltd generally:
- Reduce tooling cost by prolonging tool life
- Reduce Machine Down time
- Improve the quality of the finished product
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Surface Engineering Ltd. Offers services to companies from all sectors of industry including construction, metal forming, metal removal, aviation, microelectronics and others. The company has been accepted as an approved supplier for Lufthansa Technic Malta, an achievement considering the stringent quality requirements of the aviation industry.
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