Welcome

Plasma technology today is a key technology for tailored surfaces. Especially new technologies of Highly Ionised Pulse Plasma processes (HIPP processes) bear an enormous potential for manufacturing coatings with properties exceeding those of state of the art by far. Improvement will be available in the fields of Photovoltaics, Mechanical Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace, Tribology, Decoration, Displays, Tools, etc. Thus lifetime, reliability, fuel consumption, performance, and cost in the named applications can be improved significantly.

This COST Action contributes reducing green house gas emissions and enables European industry to stay worldwide competitive and to fulfil the Lisbon goals. Furthermore the Action strongly contributes to the Action Plan of the European Commission on Sustainable Industrial Policy and on Sustainable Consumption and Production released on 16 July 2008. In addition, this COST Action also help SMEs in creating new market opportunities for innovative plasma technologies to become a truly European success story like Laser technology. The European aggregate value added by surface technology can be estimated exceeding 100 Billion Euro per year by far. To improve the European leadership in plasma technology by a new high impact technology a coordinated European network on HIPP processes is mandatory.

2011/12/07

4^th Management Committee Meeting

Linköping, SE, 1 pm – 6 pm Invited: approved MC members. Guests have to be approved – request to Action Chair: ralf.bandorf@ist.fraunhofer.de