Aerospace MRO

Maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) is crucial in ensuring a safe and reliable fleet for airline operators. Aerospace MRO covers all airframe, engine, and component services related to ensuring aircraft safety and airworthiness – ABCD checks, composite repair, depaint / repaint, and engine maintenance. Using high-quality and reliable products and materials during construction and repairs increases the overall safety and longevity of your aircraft.

Henkel offers airline MRO customers solutions that meet major OEM qualifications in many ready-to-use size configurations:

• Structural adhesive repair solutions for aircraft composite and metal structures, cleaners, paint strippers, and brighteners
• Surface treatment solutions for cleaners, paint strippers, conversion coatings, engine cleaners, and aircraft parts repair and overhaul

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Using metal pre-treatments is essential for the longevity of your airframe and aerospace parts. Properly cleaning all aerospace parts before bonding, sealing, or painting will lead to longer lasting and durable results. Our range of metal pre-treatment solutions creates a consistent surface that will meet all of your aviation MRO requirements. With more than seven decades of experience in aircraft corrosion control, prevention, and protection, Henkel’s BONDERITE^® solutions cover all steps of the surface treatment process: cleaners and alkaline etchants for the cleaning phase, deoxidizers and desmutting products for the activation phase, and conversion coatings for the surface treatment phase.

When performing corrosion checks and paint modifications, it is important to choose consistent and reliable aircraft paint removers and repaint systems with industry-leading OEM qualifications. Henkel’s BONDERITE^® depaint and repaint technologies offer a complete portfolio of airline MRO solutions with solvent, hydrogen peroxide, and water-based products that are NESHAP compliant and are easy to apply as they cling to vertical surfaces. Furthermore, they eliminate the surface contamination of mechanical removal methods on your aircraft.

Before applying bonding adhesives or paint, the area needs to be properly prepared to remove oxide layers and smut. Henkel’s range of BONDERITE^® deoxidizers easily and efficiently remove corrosive products and heavy build-up of oxides or residues acting as both an anti-corrosion treatment and cleaner for your aircraft. At the same time, its desmutting products completely remove surface deposits. With our years of experience, you can depend on Henkel to provide aerospace MRO solutions for all your aircraft corrosion prevention and surface treatment needs.

When it comes to aircraft components, structural integrity is essential. This is why Henkel offers aerospace manufacturers composite bonding, potting, and filling products that bond or join composite sub-components with excellent chemical and environmental resistance, variable viscosity, and extraordinary mechanical performance, without requiring additional fasteners. Our range of LOCTITE^® products offer lower adherent thickness, letting you take advantage of the stiffness properties of composites and provides a separation of dissimilar materials.

A low viscosity system is needed for high temperature wet lay-up composite construction or repairs. With more than 50 years experience, Henkel’s catalogue of LOCTITE^® laminate and wet lay-up resin solutions allow wet lamination as well as out-of-autoclave curing processes to be employed. Since they cure very fast under heat, they provide an optimal adhering surface for subsequent painting and coating.

For specialty aircraft construction repairs, Henkel offers materials such as surfacing films that provide a barrier for dissimilar materials, decrease surface preparation time, and provide protection of structural fibers. Laminated films composed of a surfacing film and a conductive metal foil protect the composite structure from damage caused by lightning strikes. With our LOCTITE^® portfolio, you can be sure to get the technically most advanced aerospace surface finishing solutions.

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Depaint and Repaint

Depaint /repaint is a process which aircraft go through many times during their service life and requires safe, reliable, and responsible solutions. Henkel was the first to offer a chlorine-free solvent aircraft paint stripper to the market – offering optimal performance in paint removers for both metal and plastic parts while being environmentally friendly.

Our BONDERITE^® depaint and repaint technologies are NESHAP compliant, thixotropic products — solvent, hydrogen peroxide and water-based – that makes paint stripping and applying aircraft corrosion protection of metal and composite materials simple.

Our aircraft paint removers are available in aerosol packaging, use less material, generate less waste, and overall save you time and money. Environmentally sustainable aircraft paint supplies and formulations, as well as paint strippers for aluminum and composite are also available. Rely on Henkel Depaint & Repaint solutions – formerly known as ALODINE and TURCO – to get back in the air faster.

Under the BONDERITE^® brand, Henkel offers a broad portfolio of high-performance water based, acidic, alkaline, and peroxide based aircraft paint removers and products:

• Cleaners
• Deoxidizers
• Brighteners
• Conversion coatings

Providing the broadest portfolio in the industry, BONDERITE^® engine overhaul and compressor washers meet major OEM process specifications while being available globally. Whether you require an on-wing or off-wing solution, BONDERITE^® aircraft engine cleaner removes metal oxide scales, sulfadations, and carbonaceous material while providing highly cost effective, consistent, and reliable results.