High productivity, process reliability and cost-effectiveness are crucial for successful production. Wear-resistant coatings don’t just improve the performance of machining tools – they also offer huge potential for saving money and allow you to meet the highest quality demands.
Coated cutting tools enable higher cutting speeds and feed rates, which saves time and money in machining and increases energy efficiency. The outstanding wear resistance significantly extends the tool service life and increases the quality of produced parts.
The high-speed, dry and standard machining processes produce extremely high temperatures and temperature gradients. Our coatings boast exceptional hot hardness and resistance to temperature and oxidation, so they offer effective protection for your tools against abrasive and adhesive wear mechanisms and against process heat and the resulting increased risk of tribo-chemical reactions. This means the heat can be dissipated via the metal chips and your tools remain intact for longer, giving you higher productivity and better quality.
Tailored coating solutions to meet every challenge
Our coating technologies – PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition), PACVD (Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition) and CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) – ensure optimal and economical machining of a wide range of materials such as tempered, stainless and hardened steels, gray cast iron, non-ferrous metals, fiber-reinforced plastics and superalloys in the automotive, aerospace, energy generation and medical industries, to name just a few.
Materials such as titanium, cobalt chrome, nickel-based alloys, carbon and glass fiber-reinforced plastics (CRPs and GRPs) pose a particular challenge as they are difficult to machine. Specially developed coatings with low coefficients of friction, heat conductivity and adhesion tendencies play a part in significantly enhancing the cutting process. Whether it’s turning, milling, drilling, threading, gear cutting, broaching or reaming, our high-quality tool coatings optimize your production by increasing the metal removal rate and makes the process more efficient and reliable.
From initial inspection to careful cleaning and special pre- and post-treatment, your tools will be treated in accordance with highest quality standards. Cutting-edge coatings from Oerlikon Balzers are applied around the world using standardized production processes.
Reconditioning: a sustainable and efficient way to reduce tool costs
Reground and recoated tools perform practically like new tools. Through regrinding and recoating, tools achieve almost the same cutting efficiency, significantly extending tool life. This sustainable service not only conserves resources but also reduces production costs by maximizing tool longevity and enabling multiple reconditioning cycles.
Oerlikon Balzers offers tool reconditioning as a service at selected centers.
Order coatings online with myBalzers
You can use myBalzers to order coatings at any time online, track your order status in real time, and view the associated documents anytime and anywhere.
All important documents such as invoices, quality reports and inspection logs can be accessed with just a few clicks, and it’s easy to upload and download drawings.
Find the right coating for your cutting tools
Depending on the material and application, our tailored coatings meet your requirements, significantly enhancing your production process.