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BEYOND SURFACES

Customer Magazine

Oerlikon’s customer magazine BEYOND SURFACES tells stories about our clients – focused on our shared passion: surface technologies and advanced materials.

It shows how and where our heart beats: how people, markets and technologies merge to create a successful story – lived every day with great passion.

Beyond Surfaces #10 - Sustainability

Interview: Sustainability; Gearing up for sustainability: Improving manufacturing processes with EcoGear; Oerlikon’s employees implement green innovations worldwide; 6-fold productivity increase with BALINIT FORMERA.

Beyond Surfaces #9 - Opportunity

Errors not allowed: Marc Hervé runs with a niche. But it‘s very fast ...; Materials for Giants: Computational material development in mining; Spot on materials: Plasma; Turbo-charged innovation with suspension plasma spray; Spot on application; Hidden champions of mobility.

Beyond Surfaces #8 - Medical Technology

Biocompatible: what links scalpels, dental crowns and hip joints. The test quest: Tim Horn on testing and quality control in AM. Montia Nestler and Nancy Shepard: passion for challenges.

Beyond Surfaces #7 - Aerospace

From brush to pen: Professor Sampath on the (r)evolution of thermal spraying. High up: Airbus launches the future of Big Data in aviation. Let’s flex our muscles: Optimal strength training with 3D printing.

Beyond Surfaces #6 - Manufacturing

3D printing the world: Industry is embracing additive manufacturing. Surfaces in depth: The future of coating technology. Team up to step up: MTC2 partners share their 3D printing visions.

Beyond Surfaces #5 - Coatings

Invented by the devil; Automotive emissions motives; 30 years of “What’s next?”; A bottle everyone is familiar with; Audit means training; Hidden champions;

Beyond Surfaces #4 - Materials Engineering

How will materials revolutionize industrial production? How can big data reduce time and effort in alloy development? Can additive manufacturing open new doors for producing advanced components?

Beyond Surfaces #3 - Intelligent Material Processing

How can communicative materials shape the industry, and what do an aircraft and additive manufacturing have in common? Find out in the new edition of our customer magazine!

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 #1 - Intelligent Coating Solutions

Find more about the Segment’s story in our first customer magazine edition!

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