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Beyond Surfaces #2 - Technology & Innovation

What does Passion have to do with Technology? Find out in the second issue of our customer magazine!

Beyond Surfaces #2 - Technology & Innovation

In this issue of BEYOND SURFACES we put the focus on ‘Technology & Innovation’. The staff at Oerlikon Balzers and Oerlikon Metco are constantly at work every day to develop new technologies and solutions for our customers, so their needs can be met. Let us show you where this passion comes from and how we implement it in market-oriented innovations.

How research and industry collaborate to develop future coating technologies; how intelligent coating solutions make racing cars faster; how we helped to develop a heat treatment solution for one of the world’s biggest forging presses – let us surprise you with fascinating stories on how we and our customers bring Surface Solutions to life!

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Future coating technologies

Future coating technologies

Interview with Dr Pierangelo Gröning of Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Coatings are found everywhere and it has become impossible to imagine our modern world without them. Some of them are obvious, but others are hardly recognizable. Dr Pierangelo Gröning is head of the department for ‘ModernMaterials and Surfaces’ as well as president of the research commission of Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. He deals with coatings day in and day out – and was available to BEYOND SURFACES for an interview.

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Attract bright talent into the industry

The Oerlikon Metco Young Professionals Award

To the Oerlikon Surface Solutions Segment, social responsibility also means commitment to the next generation. By sponsoring the Young Professionals Award, Oerlikon Metco supports young individuals at universities to inspire future innovative scientists worldwide to prosper in surface technology endeavors. BEYOND SURFACES met Emine Bakan, who won the award in 2013, and this year’s award recipient Amanda Wang, and asked them about the impact the OMYPA has had in their professional lives.

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Attract bright talent into the industry
A real heavy hitter

A real heavy hitter

Scot Forge, BALITHERM IONIT and one of the biggest forging presses in the world

16’500 US tons or nearly 15’000 metric tonnes: this is the almost unbelievable force generated by the new forging press from Scot Forge, a specialist in the area of heavy-duty open-die forging. It is one of the biggest presses in the world and didn’t only present the developers at Scot Forge with a number of challenges, but also the heat treatment experts from Oerlikon Balzers. This is because the press’s four main cylinder rods alone each weigh 25 US tons (22 tonnes) and thereby count amongst the biggest parts ever treated by Oerlikon Balzers.

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On the way to industrialization

An interview on Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, has the potential to significantly change the way manufacturing is done in industry: The increasing industrialization of additive manufacturing is altering the manner in which industrial processes are being carried out. More and more companies are already experimenting with 3D printing. Now, Oerlikon is also entering the AM business. Florian Mauerer, Head of the Business Unit ‘Additive Manufacturing’, provides some insights.

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On the way to industrialization
Faster with coatings

Faster with coatings

Oerlikon Balzers and Oerlikon Metco on the track with two Formula Student teams

Silverstone, Hockenheim, Spielberg. Roaring engines, fast cars, hot asphalt. The nerves of drivers in the paddock are strung taut as the last fine tuning is carried out on their cars. What’s at stake are points – and honour. Because, even if it sounds and feels like Formula 1, the prize money at the Formula Student is the experience of putting theoretical knowledge from the lecture hall into practice. And having a blast doing it. Oerlikon Balzers and Oerlikon Metco are at the track too.

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Immaculately smooth

BALITHERM PRIMEFORM ensures perfect, high-gloss surfaces at Gigaset

The sound of the name Gigaset is renowned in the communications industry. Europe’s market leader for DECT telephones stands out through top quality and design. Tools treated with BALITHERM PRIMEFORM ensure perfect, high-gloss surfaces on finished plastic parts and shorten production cycle durations as well as the time required for maintenance.

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Immaculately smooth

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Petra Ammann

Petra Ammann

Head of Communications Oerlikon Balzers
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