Company Profile
Learn more about our businesses and core competencies, our history, and our organization.
Brands
Oerlikon’s brands stand for cutting-edge technology that empowers customers to do more, in a different way and better than ever before.
A Global Innovation Powerhouse
OC Oerlikon Corporation AG is a global innovation powerhouse for surface engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacturing. Our solutions and comprehensive services, together with our advanced materials, improve and maximize the performance, function, design and sustainability of our customers’ and their customers’ products and manufacturing processes in key industries. With a global footprint of more than 12 600 employees at 207 locations in 38 countries, the Group generated sales of CHF 2.7 billion in 2023 and stay committed to industrial transformation for a sustainable future.
Group Structure
Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, the Group operates its business in two divisions - Surface Solutions with its technology brands – Oerlikon Balzers, Oerlikon Metco, Oerlikon AM, Oerlikon riri, Oerlikon Fineparts – and Polymer Processing Solutions with its technology brands – Oerlikon Barmag, Oerlikon Neumag, Oerlikon Nonwoven and Oerlikon HRSflow. Both divisions with their technology brands and high-tech applications, are targeted at growth markets such as the automotive industry, aerospace, energy, the tooling industry, luxury and additive manufacturing (3-D printing). Each division provides its technologies and services under well-established brand names and pursues strategies based on the needs and requirements of the respective markets. Read more about the Group's structure and organizational governance here.
Structure of Oerlikon Group
Innovative Solutions for Industrial Applications
With a world population that is expected to increase to 8.5 billion by 2030, rising mobility and a growing demand for energy and raw materials that will test the boundaries of the Earth’s natural resources, industrial companies are forced to find new ways to meet the needs of global markets. It is possible to achieve this by adopting state-of-the-art materials, surface technologies and manufacturing technologies. These technologies can create products that make more out of less – increased performance, more possibilities and greater longevity, while simultaneously consuming less energy, reducing costs and using fewer resources. Oerlikon’s mission is to provide its customers with these kinds of competitive advantages through advanced materials and surfaces.
Vision
- Oerlikon creates innovative industrial solutions for a better life.
Mission
- Oerlikon strives to be your most reliable business partner, worldwide.
- We increase value through high-quality innovative industrial solutions, continuously.
- We engage highly qualified professionals.
Our commitment is your success!
Core Values
- Integrity - Everything we build, we build on trust.
- Team Spirit - I care about the team, the team cares about me.
- Excellence - What we do, we do best.
- Innovation - Ideas come from everybody and from everywhere in the organization.
Core Competencies
Oerlikon is a market leader in advanced materials, surface engineering and polymer processing. Our solutions encompass materials, coating equipment, coating services, and the engineering of entire plants. We build our business on unique technology competencies, a wide global reach and trusted customer relations in highly demanding industries, such as aerospace, automotive, energy, tooling and textiles. Every day, we develop new materials, new surface technologies, new applications, components and textile manufacturing solutions to empower our customers to create and innovate better products.
Advanced Materials
Oerlikon understands the properties of materials on the smallest scale and is a world-class materials manufacturer of metal- and ceramic-based powders and wires for coatings and other industrial applications. Oerlikon provides hundreds of diverse products, including thermal spray coating materials, auxiliary products and materials specifically for additive manufacturing.
Surface Services
Oerlikon offers one of the most comprehensive portfolios of surface technologies. Together with customers, Oerlikon develops customized solutions for multiple industries - from the coating of large components to high-precision tools. Customers can choose from a standard portfolio or order customized materials and surface solutions for their specific applications.
Polymer Processing
Oerlikon is a leading global supplier with years of experience in the engineering and machine and equipment construction sectors for numerous polymers and along the entire value chain of polymer processing. Our systems enable leading textile manufacturers across the world to produce in a more efficient and resource-saving manner, as well as to develop new textile solutions.