User:Kakleg/Flamespray Industries, Inc.

Flamespray Industries - received the 2009 IPO Inventor of the Year award for its patented Plasma Transferred Wire Arc thermal spray device. . The inventors included Keith Kowalsky, President of Flamespray Industries, Dan Marantz, founder of Flamespray Industries and David Cook, VP of Engineering of Flamespray Industries, as well as Jim Baughman a retired Ford employee. A ceremony was held at the Smithonsian National Museum of American History and the award was given to the inventors by the former three-term Govenor of Michigan and current President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, John Engler. Flamespray Industries is located in Port Washington, New York and its primary industry is thermal spray technologies for engine coating.

The company's technology is used in the 2009 Automobile Magazine Car of the Year, the Nissan GT-R. , the 2011 Ford Shelby Mustang, and Caterpillar is using it for remanufacturing of warn engine parts.

The recent use of PTWA by Nissan and Ford has been to apply a wear resistant coating on the internal surface of engine block cylinder bores. For hypoeutectic aluminum silicon alloy blocks, PTWA provides a light weight alternative to cast iron liners which are a higher cost and heavier. PTWA delivers increased displacement in the same size engine package and a potential for better heat transfer.

Flamespray and Ford Motor Company developed a production ready version of this technology which improves fuel efficiency because of the reduced weight in an automobiles which lack cast iron engine liners. It is this reduction in weight and predominantly green nano-technology which earned the company's employees the 2009 IPO Inventors of the Year status.