The new coating centre will mainly focus on cutting tools and forming tools, but it will also serve the growing market for high-tech components in mobile phones, electronics and semiconductors, as well
It persuades with coating properties that enable exceptionally high cutting speeds and even longer tool service lives, which together result in significantly improved productivity.
“We are well positioned close to our customer base and can take advantage of the technology we need to keep us competitive in the cutting tool, mold and die markets.”
Gwangju area,” says Marc Desrayaud, Head of Business Unit Tooling Solutions at Oerlikon Surface Solutions.
Heavy duty forming tools must be able to withstand extreme loads, whilst, at the same time, being productive, efficient and reliable for manufacturing.
„As the world's leading supplier of coatings for tools and components, we are participating in an above average way of China's upswing in becoming one of the leading industrial nations and in the development
Oerlikon’s additive manufacturing unit is leading transformative change in the aerospace, medical, automotive, power generation and tooling industries.
Oerlikon Balzer’s coatings and nitridings are among the most effective ways to sig- nificantly extend tool life and to enable tools to be able to tolerate significantly higher cutting speeds and feeds,
The high demand for Oerlikon Balzers’ solutions in the field of electronics, where coated tools are needed to produce computer hard drives, has encouraged the management to do this strategic move that
Oerlikon Balzers is one of the world’s leading suppliers of surface technologies that significantly improve the performance and durability of precision components as well as tools for the metal and plastics
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