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Beyond Surfaces

The customer magazine

The Oerlikon Group’s Surface Solutions Segment unifies the Oerlikon Balzers and the Oerlikon Metco brands. BEYOND SURFACES, our customer magazine, tells the story of our Segment - in stories for, and about our clients; in stories that are focused on our shared passion: Surface Solutions.

BEYOND SURFACES shows you, how, and for what our heart beats, and how people, markets and technologies merge to create this successful “story”, which is lived each and every day and with great passion within the Surface Solutions Segment.

  • Edition Winter 2021/2022

    Sustainability is an integral part of Oerlikon's strategy. As a global innovation powerhouse for surface technology, polymer processing and additive manufacturing, sustainability is not just a concept, but a living principle. The 10th issue of Beyond Surfaces is all about sustainability. In each article, you will learn about the diversity and possibilities in which this principle becomes a reality, whether customers are making it happen in their projects, employees in their daily work, in research projects or at the annual AMTC event. We spoke to Georg Stausberg, Chief Sustainability Officer, Oerlikon, and Dr Sven Hicken, Chief Technology Officer, Surface Solutions Division, to learn more about the background to communicating sustainability proactively and transparently as well as the sustainability goals for 2030.

    • pdf (10.97 MB, 01/2022)

      Beyond Surfaces 10 - Sustainability

      “Sustainability is nothing new for Oerlikon – what’s new is that we are talking about it so transparently,” says Georg Stausberg, Chief Sustainability Officer at Oerlikon. In 2021, Oerlikon published its first sustainability report. We talked with Georg Stausberg and Dr. Sven Hicken, Chief Technology Officer of the Surface Solutions Division.

      Beyond Surfaces 10 - Sustainability
  • Edition Winter 2020/2021

    The year 2020 has brought a great deal of change. In this edition of BEYOND SURFACES we include a “special”, giving you a unique insight into how our employees around the world have taken on the challenge of the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic with commitment and creativity. We are also taking the magazine title quite literally and are looking “beyond surfaces” into the second pillar of the Oerlikon Group, our synthetic-fiber business.

    • pdf (6.4 MB, 02/2020)

      Beyond Surfaces 09 - Opportunity

      The year 2020 has brought a great deal of change. In this edition of BEYOND SURFACES we include a “special”, giving you a unique insight into how our employees around the world have taken on the challenge of the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic with commitment and creativity. We are also taking the magazine title quite literally and are looking “beyond surfaces” into the second pillar of the Oerlikon Group, our synthetic-fiber business.

      Beyond Surfaces 09 - Opportunity
  • Edition Winter 2019/2020

    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.

    • pdf (11.01 MB, 01/2020)

      Beyond Surfaces 08 - Medical Technologies

      Around 7.75 billion people live in the world - and the number is growing. At the same time we are getting older and older. This is pushing health care systems worldwide to their limits: We are trying to counteract this trend with innovations. Oerlikon provides solutions along the entire process chain in this highly regulated and complex medical technology market. With the new issue of our magazine BEYOND SURFACES we are taking these aspects into account.

      Beyond Surfaces 08 - Medical Technologies
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