Company profile
We make products better! Learn more about our businesses and core competencies, our history, and our organization.
A global innovation powerhouse
Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a global leader in surface technologies and advanced materials. With a unique portfolio spanning surface engineering, high-performance materials, coating equipment and components, we make products better by enhancing performance, efficiency and sustainability. Oerlikon serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, medical, luxury, semiconductors and tooling. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, Oerlikon operates in 38 countries with approximately 9,500 employees, achieving sales of CHF 1.6 billion in 2024.
Vision
- Oerlikon creates innovative industrial solutions for a better life.
Mission
- Oerlikon strives to be your most reliable business partner, worldwide.
- We increase value through high-quality innovative industrial solutions, continuously.
- We engage highly qualified professionals.
Our commitment is your success!
Core Values
- Integrity - Everything we build, we build on trust.
- Team Spirit - I care about the team, the team cares about me.
- Excellence - What we do, we do best.
- Innovation - Ideas come from everybody and from everywhere in the organization.
Core competencies
Oerlikon is a market leader in surface technologies. Our solutions encompass materials, coating equipment and coating services. We build our business on unique technology competencies, a wide global reach and trusted customer relations in highly demanding industries. Every day, we develop new materials, new surface technologies and new applications to empower our customers to create and innovate better products.
Advanced materials
At Oerlikon, we engineer materials that drive innovation. Our portfolio includes ultra-fine metal powders for 3D printing, high-performance wires, and ceramics for thermal spray coatings – each designed to withstand pressure, heat, and wear.
With deep R&D expertise, we tailor material properties to meet specific industrial needs, from aerospace and energy to medical applications. We help customers select the right material – and often invent new ones together.
Surface services
From drill bits that stay sharp longer to turbine blades that endure extreme heat, Oerlikon’s surface technologies enhance the performance and durability of critical components. Our portfolio spans ultra-thin, wear-resistant coatings to large-scale treatments for industrial parts.
We collaborate closely with customers to develop both standard and fully customized surface solutions tailored to specific applications across industries such as aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, and medical.
Highly specialized components
Oerlikon manufactures precision components that improve product performance, safety, and efficiency in demanding environments. Leveraging our expertise in additive metal manufacturing, we produce lightweight, complex parts that enhance fuel efficiency in aerospace systems.
Our thermoelectric insulation solutions protect sensitive components in electric vehicles, while custom turbine parts extend the life and boost the output of gas turbines. From concept to production, we deliver components where precision and reliability are critical.