Every day, agricultural machinery is exposed to heavy loads – especially the wear on components presents a major challenge. Thermal coating offers a sustainable solution: materials such as metals, ceramics, or plastics are melted into powder or wire form before being applied as an adhesive protective layer. The result is more robust, durable, and efficient components.
For farmers, this means less wear, lower costs, and longer service life for their machines. Thanks to special wear-indicating coatings, maintenance and tool replacement intervals can be planned more precisely. This leads to a reduction in downtime and fewer unexpected failures.
Moreover, the coatings can provide further functional properties. Antipathogenic surfaces, for instance, help reduce infections in livestock facilities, thus, improving hygiene and animal welfare.
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is developing this technology specifically for the needs of modern agriculture. At AGRITECHNICA, we will showcase coated components to give visitors a hands-on impression of how thermal coating contributes to greater sustainability, efficiency, and competitiveness in agriculture.
