Initially reserved for the engines and airframes of military reconnaissance aircraft, titanium has long since become an integral part of our everyday lives thanks to its outstanding properties.

New high-performance materials, the transition from combustion engines to alternative drive concepts, high innovation and cost pressure – in order to master these and future challenges, machining companies and tool manufacturers must identify and exploit optimization potential.

Miniaturization is setting trends – from dental implants to electronic components and clockworks to micro ball bearings.

In 70 countries, the top players in automotive, chemical, aerospace, medical technology, and tool and mold making industries trust HORN’s precision tools to drive their success.

Mi-Tech Tooling, Inc., a cutting insert expert for the oil and gas industry in the USA, and the coating experts from CemeCon, Inc. in Horseheads, N.Y. have been working together for many years.

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

Silicon (silicon dioxide) is literally a dime a dozen. The earth’s crust consists of about 25.8 percent silicon by mass.

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

The quality of coatings and thus of coated precision tools depends to a large extent on the optimum interlocking of all necessary process steps.

The increasing demands of the machining markets present manufacturers of precision tools with major challenges. In order to be successful in promising future markets such as ...

The machining sector is also growing steadily in India, and high-performance precision tools are in hot demand. Accusharp is one of the leading Indian tool manufacturers.

Electrically conductive, temperature-resistant and a good heat conductor, dimensionally stable, lightweight and more – graphite has numerous positive properties.

Faster production, full quality control, no costs for job coaters – the advantages for an in-house coating line are obvious.

Anyone who thinks that diamond coatings are only suitable for shank tools and that PCD is always required on cutting inserts in corresponding applications is mistaken

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.

Precision tools with highly specific properties in ever smaller batch sizes and with shorter development cycles – the demands of the machining markets are high.

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

The market situation in tool and die making is more dynamic than ever. Changing markets, ever smaller batch sizes, individual products, continuously increasing quality requirements and shorter development times – the challenges for tool and die makers are manifold.

With Italy’s largest coating service in Piacenza, Lafer SpA has been supplying coatings at the highest level for a wide range of industries for over 30 years.

HiPIMS is the future of PVD coatings. The market agrees on this. The technology combines the advantages of all common coating processes.

Electromobility, classic vehicle construction, aerospace, construction, mechanical engineering, electronics, air conditioning and solar technology, packaging and more – we encounter aluminum almost everywhere.

The HiPIMS (High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering) process and its advantages for the machining industry.

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

The CC800® HiPIMS is the fastest, most flexible and most economical coating system on the market.

Those who have their precision tools coated by CemeCon can rely on premium quality.

Hardened and stainless steels and titanium – silicon-containing coatings are the answer to materials that are difficult to machine.

The world of machining is changing. With the transition from the internal combustion engine to alternative drive systems, traditional automotive manufacturing as the most important mainstay for many machining companies and tool manufacturers is being reduced enormously.

Whether for e-mobility or in aircraft construction – lightweight materials such as aluminum and titanium-aluminum alloys are increasingly being used to reduce weight. These high-performance materials pose special challenges for machinists, which they can only meet with precisely matched high-end tools.

Should you coat in-house? Factors to consider include costs, supply chain issues and the ability to make proprietary coatings