Dental implants, electronic components, watch movements, micro ball bearings – miniaturization is omnipresent.

The tool manufacturer Horn has been coating its cutting tools with HiPIMS high-performance coatings in its own coating center since 2015.

The Electronics industry, Micromachining, Aerospace, Tool and mould making and Medical technology – the key to High-precision machining of the Micro components and finest contours are tools that are only a few millimetres or even tenths of a millimetre thin.

Complex products and modern high-tech materials are placing ever greater demands on precision tools.

Incremental changes highlight recent advances in the wake of severe supply chain challenges