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39 BEYOND SURFACES Fall 16
News & Events
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Märkte
The new Oerlikon Balzers Customer
Centre for the region of Northern
Germany is under construction in
Bielefeld. Three currently existing
plants will be merged at the new
site. The objective is to expand the
range of individualized solutions and
to optimize processes and internal
workflows to be able to respond to
customers’ wishes with even greater
flexibility.
“The new Bielefeld Centre will be
ready for occupancy in March 2017
New customer centre in Bielefeld
and combines the core expertise of
the three existing Oerlikon Balzers
plants of Hildesheim, Spenge and
Herford to offer innovative coating
solutions, especially for the plastics-processing industry for the automoti-
ve and pharmaceutical industries. An
additional focus will be coatings for
cutting tools in toolmaking,” explains
Hendrik Alfter, Managing Director of
Oerlikon Balzers, Germany.
The new Twin 150 Powder Feeder
from Oerlikon Metco meets the
needs of many different powder-
fed manufacturing processes.
With its own Oerlikon Metco sales office and
sales force, and the 5th Oerlikon Balzers customer
centre in South Korea, the Surface Solutions
Segment emphasizes its presence in this
important market.
The new location in Gwangju is Oerlikon Balzers’
5th Customer Centre in South Korea, and its 108th world-
wide. “Korea is a genuine Oerlikon Balzers success story.
This new centre will enable us to provide an even better,
short-term delivery service for our customers in the form-
ing tool / home appliance industry and for our automotive
industry customers in the prosperous Gwangju area,”
Strengthening the footprint
in South Korea
says Marc Desrayaud, Head of Business Unit Balzers
Industrial Solutions at Oerlikon Surface Solutions.
Effective 1st April, Oerlikon Metco took over all
Metco assets from IWS, its long-time local distribution
partner, and officially opened the new Oerlikon Metco
Korea branch office in Seoul. “Our two companies have
enjoyed a highly successful partnership since 1985 when
IWS became Oerlikon Metco‘s representative in South
Korea. Oerlikon Metco has, in the meantime, become,
the leading thermal spray brand in South Korea. The
new Oerlikon Metco Korea office is the next step in this
process, and will provide even better and more direct
service for our regional customers,” stressed Markus
Heusser, Head of Business Unit Metco Aero & Energy at
Oerlikon Surface Solutions.
Better customer service
The new Oerlikon Balzers
Customer Centre and its
customer service team in
Gwangju, South Korea.
The new Oerlikon Metco sales
office in Seoul, South Korea.
Oerlikon Metco’s new versatile, multi-process powder feeder
Twin 150 can be easily fully integrated into a thermal spray, laser
cladding or powder additive manufacturing system.
The unit can be operated in Full
Remote Mode, where the feeder’s
functions are completely controlled
by the user’s external control system.
“Owners of many types of powder-fed systems will benefit from the
ability of the Twin 150 to fully inte­
grate into their automated system by
allowing them to simplify their pro-
cessing with better process control,”
states Product Line Manager, Omar
Sabouni.
Oerlikon Metco’s volumetric
powder feeders have long been a
favorite of laser cladding manufac-
turers as a result of the accuracy of
the feeding mechanism, even at very
low feed rates. The new Twin 150
feeder, with its ability for full sys-
tem integration, is expected to be
an attractive choice for manufac-
turers of powder-fed laser cladding,
additive manufacturing and thermal
spray systems.
Metco Twin 150: Powder feeder for additive
manufacturing and coating processes