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SINGAPORE, Feb. 27 /News Aktuell-AsiaNet - Asian Aerospace 2002 - From now on, Japanese MRO provider and aircraft-engine manufacturer Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) will be sending turbine parts to Lufthansa Techniks Hamburg facility for repair by the latest high-tech procedures.
Over the next five years the Hamburg company will be doing for IHI sophisticated repairs of IAE V2500-engine turbine blades, which are subject to particularly high loads.
Lufthansa Technik has developed special procedures involving the use of a laser beam to create tiny new cooling holes in the blades, which are exposed to very high temperatures in the turbines high-pressure section, and to apply to them an extremely heat-resistant ceramic coating.
These unique procedures frequently make it possible to repair damaged blades instead of expensively replacing them with new ...
Source: HighBeam Research, JAPANESE MANUFACTURER TO OUTSOURCE REPAIRS TO LUFTHANSA.