Benefits
  

- Comprehensive choice of coating materials: metals, alloys, ceramics, cermets and carbides.

- Coatings can be adapted to specific criteria

- Coatings can be post treated (turning, grinding, diamant grinding).

- Thick coatings can be applied at high deposition rates.

- Components can be sprayed with little or no pre- or post-heat treatment, and component distortion is minimal.

- Parts can be rebuilt quickly and at low cost, and usually at a fraction of the price of a replacement.

- Components with a coating have a longer lifetime

- Thermal spray coatings may be applied both manually and automatically.

- Environmentally friendly: no volatile organics are employed as is the case with many paints

- no dimensional limits to components sizes

- Coatings are mechanically bonded to the substrate—can often spray coating materials which are metallurgically
   incompatible with the substrate, e.g., materials with a higher melting point than the substrate.