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Everyday, we meet numerous objects and situations which contain technologies of Oerlikon. They enable our mobility, allow us to conduct our business, help us communicate and stay healthy, make us smile, and let us travel around the world quickly and efficiently.
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- Segment Textile
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Drive Systems
Whether the newest electric vehicle, a monster truck, or a modern windmill – all use Segment Drive Systems. -
Coating
Everybody opens daily several time doors of cabinets – in the toilet, the kitchen, in the bedroom, in the office aso. Doors need hinges. About 80% of all hinges worldwide are produced with coated stamping and punching forms -
Drive Systems
Oerlikon Graziano gears propel the Lamborghini Murcielago sports car driven by Batman in the movies “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight.” -
Adv. Technologies
If you have solar panels on your roof, you probably have power electronics manufactured with Oerlikon thin film technology. -
Textile
50% of all automobile tires benefit from Oerlikon production solutions. -
Vacuum
The ancient Greeks had a profound aversion to the concept of nothingness; they denied the existence of vacuum (“horror vacui”), a belief that lasted to the end of the Middle Ages. -
Drive Systems
Almost 70% of all agricultural vehicles in use today are equipped with Oerlikon Graziano synchronizers and power shift clutch technology. -
Coating
Balzers is coating about 200’000’000 parts for about 20’000 customers every year -
Drive Systems
The Audi R8 driven by super-hero Iron Man is fitted with an Oerlikon Graziano gearbox. -
Adv. Technologies
Most cell phones see, hear or transmit through thin films produced with Oerlikon technology. -
Textile
An astronaut on the way to the moon? You’re wearing technology from Oerlikon. -
Vacuum
Modern turbo molecular vacuum pumps spin at >1,000 revolutions / second – faster than a jet plane engine turbine. -
Drive Systems
Most of the tow tractors used in European and Chinese airports use Oerlikon Graziano automatic transmission to get your luggage to the turnstile. -
Coating
About 500 billion aluminum beverage cans are bottled and closed with a lid. About half of all these cans are closed in a Balzers coated tool. -
Drive Systems
The Panda, Fiat’s best selling model in 2009, is equipped with an Oerlikon Graziano power transfer unit -
Adv. Technologies
Energy efficient hybrid cars depend on electronics manufactured with Oerlikon thin film technology. -
Textile
Do you race cars? Your suit is by Oerlikon. -
Vacuum
Vacuum pumps enable vacuums of 10-10 mbar – that is 0.0000000001 mbar, which is still not an absolute vacuum. -
Drive Systems
Do you play golf? Oerlikon Graziano produced and supplied the first transaxle for the 1994 Club Car. -
Coating
With Oerlikon Balzers coatings on automotive components a reduction in fuel consumption of about 10% is possible. -
Drive Systems
The Aston Martin DBS driven by James Bond in the movies “Casino Royal” and “Quantum of Solace” uses an Oerlikon Graziano gearbox. -
Adv. Technologies
Automotive power electronics, pressure and acceleration sensors, LED lighting, wireless transmission, GPS, and control logic systems are all manufactured with Oerlikon thin film technology. -
Textile
US First Lady Michelle Obama wore a dress to the presidential inauguration made of fabric embroidered by Forster Rohner AG – on a Saurer embroidery machine. -
Vacuum
An old-fashioned cathode ray TV tube with a vacuum of 10-6 still contains 25 billion gas molecules in every cm³. -
Drive Systems
Today, all Club Car golf utility vehicles are assembled with our electric transaxle. -
Coating
Coated bones saws are used in surgeries. Dry-running is necessary – no greasing allowed. Coated saw blades run safely with no wear. -
Vacuum
The new generation of energy saving light bulbs would not work without vacuum technology. -
Adv. Technologies
Efficient power management for mobile devices is enabled with Oerlikon thin film technology -
Textile
The world’s largest spunlaid spinning system – from Oerlikon Neumag – produces non-woven textiles up to 7 meters (23 feet) wide. -
Vacuum
Both a refrigerator and a car have ducts and pipe systems that are evacuated by vacuum pumps before being filled a liquid – coolant in one case, hydraulic oil in the other. -
Drive Systems
The THINK City, designed and developed as a mass-production urban electrical vehicle, is fitted with an Oerlikon Graziano gearbox. -
Adv. Technologies
96% of all BD-R discs and all BD-RE discs are produced on Oerlikon Systems metallizers. -
Vacuum
A well-kept secret: products made with the help of vacuum pumps surround us. Every CD and DVD, every light bulb, all semiconductor wafers, eyeglass lenses, the testing of the tiles on the Space Shuttle – all these are done under vacuum conditions created with our pumps. Even the hiss of a coffee package being opened betrays a vacuum, which prolongs shelf life by slowing the germination rate of bacteria. -
Adv. Technologies
The future is bright – Oerlikon thin film technology helps LED market leaders produce better light. -
Textile
Automated rotor-spinning systems – like the market leading “Autocoro” (since 28 years) from Oerlikon Schlafhorst – use up to 480 spinning points to produce a half ton of the finest thread every hour. The roving (or sliver) is first drawn into strips, then blown into a spinning rotor (up to 150,000 rpm, 8x faster than a Formula One engine!) and spun into thread. -
Vacuum
The exploration of the boundaries of our knowledge depends on vacuum technology in the search for the existence of subatomic particles. -
Drive Systems
Our innovative carbon synchronizer technology has successfully undergone over 1.5 million duty cycle tests. -
Adv. Technologies
Half of all CDs are produced on an Oerlikon System. -
Vacuum
Refrigerators, air conditioners, airport security scanners, and automotive hydraulic systems all need a vacuum to function. -
Adv. Technologies
Windmill farms have power electronics manufactured with Oerlikon thin film technology. -
Textile
The world’s largest ring spinning system – from Oerlikon Schlafhorst – has up to 1,680 spinning points and is over 70 meters (230 feet) long. -
Vacuum
Vacuum technology basically shoves gas molecules from one place to another – in a certain sequence. In comparison, a temperature of ‘absolute zero’ also creates a vacuum. This is called cryogenics. -
Drive Systems
Every well-known tractor manufacturer in the world relies on transmission elements from Oerlikon Graziano. -
Adv. Technologies
Nearly 50% of all the hard disks in the world originate from an Oerlikon system. -
Vacuum
The CERN research center in Switzterland uses our vacuum pumps. -
Adv. Technologies
The majority of electrical rail engines get their high voltage power delivery through Oerlikon thin films. -
Textile
A pair of women’s jeans (average quality) consists of 120 million cotton strands with a total length of 3,000 km (1,860 miles). -
Coating
Without Oerlikon Balzers hardly any F1 engine would be running. Low weight is essential race car design. Lots of parts are made out of titanium which tends to get easy wear. With BALINIT-coatings thes are protected properly. -
Drive Systems
The sun never sets on transmission applications from Oerlikon Graziano – that's what you call a global supplier! -
Adv. Technologies
40% of all hard disk read/write heads use Oerlikon thin film technology. -
Vacuum
For “KATRIN”, the world’s largest vacuum tank for mass spectrometry is using Oerlikon Leybold vacuum pumps. -
Adv. Technologies
Low loss high voltage energy transmission is enabled with Oerlikon thin films. -
Textile
The total production of all installed ring & rotor spinning systems from Segment Textile can process 8.8 million tons of cotton/wool – or 33% of the world’s total capacity. -
Coating
In every diesel injection pump is a DLC (diamond-like carbon) coated part. In order to meet standards for environment-friendly car, the injection pressure is increased over 2000bars. This is only possible with coated mechanical parts. -
Drive Systems
Our manufacturing and inspection capabilities allow gear modifications down to 2/100 of the diameter of human hair. -
Adv. Technologies
A third of all microprocessors have Oerlikon technology inside. -
Vacuum
Numerous automobile parts are hardened under vacuum conditions to ensure performance and durability. -
Textile
The length of nylon thread (14 dtex strength) on a 25 kg (55 lbs) spool is 18,400 km (>11,400 miles) long – the distance from Frankfurt, Germany to Hong Kong...and back. -
Coating
PET bottle preforms are produced in coated mould. 25 % of all plastic bottle caps worldwide are produced with Oerlikon Balzers coated moulds. -
Drive Systems
Most ultra-low floor city buses in Italy are equipped with our “inverted portal axle,” (IPA); which facilitates the up-and-down movement of the bus. -
Adv. Technologies
The electronics of a large portion of all rice cookers contains Oerlikon thin film technology. -
Vacuum
Vacuum technology enables modern production processes – an industry that makes a profit ‘in a vacuum.’