Zircotec in pole position at Science Museum

Zircotec’s ceramic thermal barrier technology that allows high strength, lightweight materials to be used in high temperature environments has been selected to appear at a forthcoming exhibition. Opening on March 11th, the Science Museum’s ‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1TM is changing our world’ will be showing how Zircotec’s and other companies’ motorsport technologies can be transferred from the racetrack and applied to other fields of innovation.

“Believed to be the only product of its type available commercially and with a patent application filed, Zircotec’s coating is so effective that it allows composites to function in temperatures above their melting point,” explains Zircotec’s sales director Peter Whyman. “Visitors will learn how our coating can reduce surface temperatures by more than 125ºC on composite materials, and see opportunities for other applications outside of motorsport.”

Nineteen other innovative by-products of Formula 1 will be displayed alongside the Zircotec coated wishbones. Visitors will discover how telemetry systems and rigorous pit-stop strategies devised by British teams are currently applied to improve safety and efficiency in our hospitals, homes and working places.

Zircotec, a UK based firm, is formerly a part of the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority. Its range of coatings is found in automotive, aerospace and industrial applications, such as the manufacture of fibre optics. The composite coating, developed for F1, can be used on a high performance road car in the next twelve months.

Visitor Information

“Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world” is free exhibition open from March 11th 2009 until Spring 2010. The Science Museum is free to visit and open daily from 10.00 to 18.00. Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD. Nearest Tube: South Kensington. Further information: sciencemuseum.org.uk /0870 870 4868