Market segments
Cutting
BALINIT®-coated tools maintain their performance longer and produce workpieces of consistently high quality for new or re-coated tools.
Benefits:
- Reducing the time and cost for machining
- Significantly higher cutting speeds and feeds
- Longer service life reduces the tool-changing costs
Punching and Forming
BALINIT®-coated tools maintain their performance longer and produce workpieces of consistently high quality. BALINIT® is very hard and protects functional surfaces, cutting edges and drawing radii against abrasive wear.
Benefits:
- Longer service life
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Reduced quantities of lubricants
- Higher production reliability lubricants and better surface quality
Moulding
Throughout the world, plastics processors and mould makers take advantage of Oerlikon Balzers coatings to increase their competitiveness.
Benefits:
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Better mould filling
- Reduced mould release forces
- Higher wear resistances
- Better quality of the injection moulded products
- Good wear indicator
Die Casting
The high hardness and outstanding thermal and chemical stability of the coating improve profitability and productivity, even under the most demanding conditions of use.
Benefits:
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Better surface quality
- Higher process reliability
Automotive and Precision Components
Lighter construction, ever increasing performance with ever smaller dimensions, more environmentally friendly concepts for operation and maintenance: increasing demands on systems impose greater requirements on the components.
Benefits of BALINIT® on precision components:
- Makes higher performance available with smaller dimensions and weight
- Increases service life and functional reliability
- Enables expensive special materials to be replaced
- Reduces lubricant consumption and maintenance costs
- Protects when running dry
- Improves corrosion resistance