Global Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Cold Spray (CS) (formerly gas dynamic cold spray) is a coating deposition method. Solid powders (1 to 50 micrometers in diameter) are accelerated in a supersonic gas jet to velocities up to 500–1000 m/s. During impact with the substrate, particles undergo plastic deformation and adhere to the surface. To achieve a uniform thickness the spraying nozzle is scanned along the substrate. Metals, polymers, ceramics, composite materials and nanocrystalline powders can be deposited using cold spraying. The kinetic energy of the particles, supplied by the expansion of the gas, is converted to plastic deformation energy during bonding. Unlike thermal spraying techniques, e.g., plasma spraying, arc spraying, flame spraying, or high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF), the powders are not melted during the spraying process. Cold spray has been applied to numerous high strength aluminum parts, but it has also been used to deposit stainless steel and other high strength steels, bronze alloys, nickel alloys, titanium, and even exotic elements like tantalum and niobium. Cold spray doesn’t fix everything, but it has the ability to solve challenges that other technologies simply can’t touch. And just as importantly, once a cold spray process has been developed, it can be applied reliably and repeatedly for a given application.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment market finds that the global Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment market reached a value of USD 50.52 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 73.4 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 6.42% during the forecast period.

Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment Growth Drivers

In terms of technology, cold spray technology is a new technology for surface modification of materials that is easy to operate, safe and pollution-free. The cold spray method refers to the supersonic gas and solid two-phase air flow to shoot the coating powder to the substrate to form a dense coating at room temperature or lower temperature. Therefore, there are no high-temperature heating coating material powder particles in cold spray technology, and there are no effects such as high-temperature oxidation, vaporization, melting, and crystallization that affect coating performance. It can produce corrosion-resistant, friction-resistant, reinforced, insulating, conductive and magnetically conductive coatings on the surface of metal, glass, and ceramic workpieces. Compared with traditional spraying technology, the various advantages of cold spraying technology are a huge driving force for the further expansion of the cold spraying equipment market.

In terms of demand, Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment has a wide range of applications and plays an important role in various industries such as automobiles, shipbuilding, aviation, and electronics. For example, in the field of automobile maintenance, cold spray technology can be used to coat cars with different metals, and at the same time, the impact of the car body can be reduced: car cylinders, sealing valves, etc. can also be sprayed and repaired. The advantage of cold spraying is that the heat load on the workpiece is minimized, and the very low heat output will not produce thermal stress. Therefore, the coating thickness can reach several millimeters or more. Different nozzles are selected to create different spray interfaces, which can form a free structure. For example, the engine and chassis of the automobile manufacturing industry can be sprayed freely without any post-treatment; the spraying jet is very concentrated, only a few millimeters, and can be sprayed flexibly Any complicated workpieces are not allowed to be covered before spraying, and the noise is not large. At present, the cold spray device is designed to have a maximum pressure of 3.5MPa and a gas temperature of 600°C.

Market Challenges

Technology needs further breakthrough
Because of its characteristics of rapid prototyping at low temperature, cold spraying can not only prepare coatings for parts repair, but also can be used as a new type of additive manufacturing method to prepare bulk materials or complex parts. It can be seen that cold spray has many advantages of coating or material preparation, but also has obvious shortcomings. How to expand the range of sprayed powder, improve the deposition efficiency of sprayed powder, and improve the bonding force between particles in the coating, etc., are all problems to be solved in the future. This requires scientific researchers to deeply understand the collision behavior between particles and between particles and between particles in the process of high-speed collision of particles, so as to provide theoretical guidance for obtaining ideal coatings or bulk materials. At the same time, it is necessary to start by changing the process parameters to optimize the preparation methods, such as the structure of the original powder, cold spray parameters, post-processing methods, and so on. It is hoped that through the above optimization methods, cold spray technology will be more attractive in the preparation of high-performance coatings and blocks. At the same time, the continuous advancement of non-destructive testing technology will also make additive manufacturing technology more secure in terms of safety and reliability.
The gas dynamic cold spraying equipment industry places high requirements on the R&D technology of manufacturers. Only by continuously improving the level of technological research and development can companies have the ability to continuously innovate and differentiate their competitiveness, ensure the reliability and stability of product performance, and gain competitive advantages in cost control, safety and environmental protection. At the same time, with downstream customers’ increasing spraying requirements and upgrading of spraying technology, high-level industry technology can not only meet the basic needs of customers, but to a certain extent can help customers realize and improve design ideas, even through technology and innovation of craftsmanship creates new market demand.

Region Overview:

In 2022, the share of the Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment market in North America stood at 41.58%.

Company Overview:

Obninsk Center for Powder Spraying (OCPS) is one of the major players operating in the Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment market, holding a share of 17.88% in 2023.

Obninsk Center for Powder Spraying (OCPS)

The Obninsk Powder Coating Center (OCPS) is a leading Russian company that produces, sells and supports DYMET® low-pressure cold spray equipment.

CenterLine

CenterLine (Windsor) Limited is a privately held company that builds customized automated welding and assembly lines for fastener welding, resistance welding (steel, high-strength steel, hot stamping steel and aluminum) metal connection, metal forming, and standard brand products and metals Coating application.

Segmentation Overview:

As for product types, the Low Pressure Cold Spray segment held the largest market share in 2022.

Application Overview:

By application, the Coatings segment occupied the biggest share from 2018 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment market covered in Chapter 3:

Obninsk Center for Powder Spraying (OCPS)
Impact Innovation GmbH
Inovati
CenterLine
Plasma Giken
VRC Metal Systems
Rus Sonic Technology

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

High Pressure Cold Spray
Low Pressure Cold Spray

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Gas Dynamic Cold Spray Equipment market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Coatings
Repair
Manufacturing

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)