An engineering component usually fails when its surface cannot adequately withstand the
external forces or environment to which it is subjected. The choice of a surface material (coating)
with the appropriate properties and functionalities – especially corrosion, chemical, wear and
thermal resistance, and optical, magnetic and electrical characteristics – is crucial to meet
increasingly harsh use conditions, and the success of innovative projects. Innovation managers
and researchers, in a very large number of activities, must have a strong knowledge of the
innovative developments in surface engineering targeting metallic, ceramic, glass, composites,
polymer and leather substrates.
BT2i offers a very high added value technology watch programme specifically dedicated to
Surface engineering.
TWatch programme includes the following package of services:
* Individual kick off meeting: in a fully confidential manner,
each member tells BT2i its own specifications (topics, sub-topics,
specific issues) included in the general menu.
– Then, all TWatch members’ specifications are gathered, forming the global
watch territory.
– You receive answers to your questions along with answers to other members’
ones’ facilitating cross-fertilization and ideation.
* With your individual codes, you can access to the secured TWatch Information
Platform updated on a daily basis with news collected from professional databases
and selected by BT2i Sr. consultants, Advisors and international correspondents.
* Every month, you receive the TWatch Whaoo Note in which BT2i points
out emerging technologies having different maturities and Retex.
* You participate in two TWatch conferences and innovation meetings organized
in Paris-La Defense on May and November each year.
– European and international academics and start-upers pitch their
innovations and offers of scientific and technological cooperation.
– You meet and talk to other TWatch members during coffee-breaks
and lunch.
Watch Territory
1. Surface preparation
• Wet processing
• Dry processing
• Mechanical preparations
2. Thermal and thermochemical treatments
• Diffusion • Structural transformation
3. Wet Surface treatments and coatings
• Electroless plating • Sol-Gel coatings
• Electrolytic plating • Organic coatings and paints
• Conversion treatments • Treatments by immersion in a molten metal bath
4. Dry surface treatments and coatings
• Thermal spraying • PVD coating & Asssited PVD
• Cladding • Ion implantation
• CVD coating & Assisted CVD • Other advanced processes (laser, e-beam…)
5. Multiplex and composite treatments
6. Surface finishing
• Biomimetism • Advanced processes
7. Surface Texturizations (nanoscale)
8. Other emerging processes
9. New functionalities
10. Control and Characterization new techniques
11. New regulations, Environment, Health & Safety
Budget (incl. Fees & Travels, Congresses, Database costs)
• SMEs: up to 2,000 employees: e 8,500 (single licence)
• Technical & Research Centers, Carnot Institutes, IRTs: e 12,500 (single licence)
• Large Corps and Industrial Groups: e 12,500 (single licence)
(per additional licence: e 4,000)
Project Planning
• Free Marketing Webinars:
– October 11, 2016 (2.00 – 2.45 pm, Paris)
– October 25, 2016 (9.00 – 9.45 am, Paris)
• Subscription period: up to Nov. 25, 2016 (15% Off )
• Watch period: Jan-Dec 2017
• Free Marketing & Commercial Meeting
(Paris La Défense)
– November 8, 2016 (9.30 – 12.00 am)