Zircotec has been revealed as providing cutting-edge heat management expertise to protect Aston Martin’s Valkyrie from tailpipe gas temperatures upwards of 600°C. ‘Everything around the rear end of the car is ceramic Zircotec-coated because of the temperatures we see here – about 600 degrees C,’ said Libby Meigh, Colour and Material Manager for Aston [...]
F1 technology developed within BTCC Power Maxed Racing today announce that their technical partnership with Zircotec Group, thermal management experts, will continue with the added benefit of Zircotec’s enhanced performance heat shielding expertise to take the partnership to the next level. The partnership for the 2020 season will provide a platform for Zircotec to [...]
Vauxhall Astra Touring Cars (BTCC) Engine TOCA spec 2 litre, 4 cylinder Turbo charged engines built to NGTC (Next Generation Touring Car) specifications by Swindon Race Engines, including regulation Zircotec coated exhaust downpipe Power: 380bhp (approx.) Max Rpm: 7,000 Fly by wire throttle Direct Fuel Injection Bespoke intercooler & cooling system, manufactured in-house by PMR using PWR [...]
Daniel Graham’s extensive knowledge within F1, motorsports and OEM heat shielding design will be an asset to Zircotec’s continuing growth Zircotec Group has expanded its projects team to include Dan Graham, Principal Design Engineer (Specialist Systems), with the task of growing and developing their performance heat shielding facility. He will also be supporting the [...]
We are delighted to announce we are a leading nominee for the Business of the Year Award with annual sales under £5m, with the winner to be announced in January at the Motorsport Industry Association’s Business Excellence Awards. Zircotec® is a registered Trade Mark of Zircotec Group.
At Zircotec, work on our new factory is nearing completion, with the addition of more capital equipment. We have a new Grit Blast room, and more robots for our Plasma booths. We are also sprucing up our reception area, as you can see from the image above. We will be operating normal hours, applying [...]
We're delighted to win Thames Valley Business Magazine 'SME of the Year' Award 2019, sponsored by James Cowper Kreston. Judges considered the following when deciding on the winners of the award: Current business performance Growth over the past two years Potential for future growth in years ahead Examples of innovation in products, services, and/or [...]
Our new premises, with over £2m investment, continues to take shape. We have positioned the grit blasters and installed the technology within the first plasma booth. This is the technology we use to produce our range of ultra-high-quality coatings, heat shield materials and ceramics components. We are starting working 24-hour shifts to catch up [...]
It’s onwards and definitely upwards at Zircotec this week. We had duct work going in at height for the curing oven and 2 of the paint booth extraction systems. Just 4 booths to go! You can view our latest time lapse footage on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Orkk4ONvwZQ Zircotec® is a registered Trade Mark of Zircotec Group. [...]
So, it’s Friday already! What have we achieved at Zircotec this week? Our paint booths are built, the gas lines are in and the grit blasters are in place. If you’d like to see how we’re getting on, you can view the time lapse footage on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2QOSn3hkDc8 Zircotec® is a registered Trade Mark [...]
At Zircotec Group, we are delighted we’ve been named as SME of the Year finalist in the Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards 2019, sponsored by James Cowper Kreston. Judges will consider the following when deciding on the winners of the award: Current business performance Growth over the past two years Potential for future growth [...]
Our plasma booths are almost complete at Zircotec Group. Next, we are building the paint booths, installing the gases, grit blast and compressed air so it’s a big week for the company. If you’d like to see how things are progressing, we have the second part of our time lapse footage here that will [...]
At Zircotec Group, we wanted to capture the development within our new facility as the building work takes place. During days 1-3 last week, our plasma booths were built within our production area. If you’d like to see how that went, we have time lapse footage here that will take 1:17 mins of your [...]
ZircoFlex® Heat Shield is nominated in Materials Application of the Year category Zircotec Group’s ZircoFlex® Heat Shield has been shortlisted in the Materials Application of the Year category in the 10th Anniversary British Engineering Excellence Awards. “We are delighted to have our ZircoFlex® Heat Shield shortlisted in the Materials Application of the Year category [...]
2019 sees us expanding our operations and commercial teams in line with the exciting changes and the continued growth of the Zircotec Group. Zircotec's expanded team are working together to deliver our customer excellence strategy. The new employees are experienced in improving processes and delivering the customer excellence strategy devised around the high standards and [...]
Zircotec is proud to announce that 5 employees have successfully completed the NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Lean Organisation Management Techniques. Brian Holmes, Louise Cox, Phil Westland, Joshua Herbert and Robert Pask, pictured, were all awarded the qualification that aims to improve business performance by giving them an understanding of lean organisation techniques, introducing [...]
