PARIS AIR SHOW, Paris, France, June 22, 2011 – Chromalloy, a leading service provider of repairs and coatings for turbine engines, used the occasion of the Paris Air Show to celebrate the company’s 60 years of serving the industry.
“Today we celebrate Chromalloy’s 60th anniversary and exceptional legacy of research and development in technologies to extend the life of operators’ gas turbine engines,” said Armand F. Lauzon, Jr., President. “We’ve grown exponentially since our founding days and today, with 4,000 people at 52 locations worldwide, Chromalloy is the world’s leading independent turbine engine service provider.”
The company develops about 200 new advanced repairs each year for the engine hot section, serving the world’s airlines, the U.S. military, and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) shops.
Chromalloy proprietary coatings – including advanced thermal barrier coatings for turbine engine components – lower power systems’ thermal conductivity and allow higher engine temperatures, resulting in greater engine thrust. Higher thrust engines operate on the same amount of fuel as powerplants operating at lower temperatures.
Chromalloy provides coatings during repairs to commercial and military turbine engine operators and also partners with engine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce to produce coatings at the companies’ joint venture operations in the U.S. and the U.K.
“As a significant part of our legacy and future, we intend to continue the R&D that has led Chromalloy’s expansion and success over the years,” Lauzon said. “And we continue to identify opportunities for new partnerships and JVs in the industry.”
Chromalloy has locations in 17 countries. As the world’s leading independent supplier of technologically advanced repairs, coatings, and FAA-approved replacement parts for turbine airfoils and other critical engine components for commercial airlines, the military and industrial turbine engine applications, Chromalloy counts as its customers many of the world’s major airlines.
In addition, the company provides industrial turbine operators including electrical utilities and offshore platform operators with gas turbine engine parts, coatings and advanced repairs.
During its 60-year history Chromalloy’s continued investments in research and development of coating, and repair and manufacturing technology has led to the development of electron beam physical vapor deposition with ceramic materials, vacuum plasma, diffused precious metal / aluminide coatings, and vision-guided interactive laser welding and drilling for most advanced turbine engine components, as well as many other advanced technologies.
The company’s engineered components and blades are subject to the same FAA requirements and scrutiny as OEM-produced equipment. In support of marine and land-based gas turbines, Chromalloy employs identical engineering disciplines used to produce its FAA-certified parts. More information is at www.chromalloy.com.
