When it comes to really thick coatings, manufacturers of cutting inserts have so far had no choice but to resort to the CVD coating process, which is very limited in its possibilities.

Short distances and the complete tool development process from a single source – this strategy has put Boehlerit from Kapfenberg, Austria, on course for growth. Gerhard Melcher, Sales Manager at Boehlerit, gets confirmation of this every day.

Since the beginning of 2020, CemeCon K.K. has been supporting Japanese tool manufacturers with diamond coatings at its new coating center in Nagoya. Now the experts have expanded their range to include HiPIMS technology.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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