As laboratory manager, Ioan Jones will focus on analysis, development and improvement of existing production processes, as well as new procedures and applications for Hardide coatings. Joining from Norma UK, he has an extensive background in metallurgy.
Oliver Jones has experience in developing plating processes. His pre-treatment specialist role at Hardide Coatings will include creating new pre-treatment methods and improving and adapting the existing processes to new types of steel and alloys.
“We are pleased to welcome Ioan and Oliver; their skills will be a great addition to the laboratory and they will play an important part in the advancement of our surface engineering offering going forward,” said Hardide plc CEO Philip Kirkham.
Hardide Coatings recently developed an innovative coating for TSP (thermally stable polycrystalline) diamonds to extend the life and improve the performance of drilling tools operating in extremely abrasive environments. The company has also solved the hard chrome plating problem with Hardide-A, which meets the EU and US environmental standards that will soon see toxic hard chrome plating restricted or banned.
