Oerlikon Balzers

INVENTA - Step into a new dimension of PVD Arc Technology! The INVENTA system, featuring Advanced Arc Technology, offers exceptional versatility through its precisely tuned interaction between the new trigger, high-end arc source design, and adjustable electromagnetic field. These key features of INVENTA deliver enhanced efficiency, reliability, and productivity, ensuring uniform, high-quality coatings like never before. Experience future-ready coatings that provide more reliable and efficient performance. Whether you’re coating indexable inserts, round tools, or hobs, INVENTA is designed to elevate your operations, with shorter batch times and a lower cost per piece. What’s more, the INVENTA system supports sustainability with approximately 20% lower energy consumption, reduced material waste through higher target utilization, and optimized water usage thanks to an improved cooling circuit. Step into the future of high-performance coatings with INVENTA! Stay tuned for more...

Thank you for Making Fakuma Messe 2024 a Success! FAKUMA 2024 wrapped up last week, and we want to thank everyone who visited our booth. It was a pleasure discussing your plastics processing challenges and sharing how Oerlikon’s innovative surface solutions and hot runner systems can enhance your production processes. Your interest and engagement made this event a great success, and we look forward to continuing our conversations beyond the show! Thank you for joining us – until next time!

BALINIT® MOLDENA for High-Speed Food Packaging – Live at Fakuma Messe 2024! At FAKUMA 2024, Thomas Vermland, Application Manager Plastics at Oerlikon, interviewed Stéphane Rousseau, CEO of SN CAULONQUE, at the Sumitomo (SHI) Demag stand (B1-1105), where their high-speed food packaging application with In-mold labelling (IML) is running. In the interview, Thomas asked about the motivation behind using BALINIT® MOLDENA. Stéphane highlighted that tool life is critical for the toolmaker, and they faced numerous issues with other coatings. BALINIT® MOLDENA proved to be the ideal solution—simplifying preparation, improving tool life, and ultimately helping to increase productivity and reduce costs. Watch the full interview below to learn more! 📅 Visit us until October 19 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, at Hall 1, Booth A1-1216 to discover how our surface solutions can boost your plastics processing efficiency. #Fakuma2024

🎤 How coatings play a crucial role in productive plastics processing – Insights from Georg Kassek at Fakuma 2024! 🎥 Georg Kassek, Head of Sales Forming Tools, shares how Oerlikon Balzers’ innovative thin-film coatings and heat treatment solutions protect tools from abrasive wear and corrosion, extend service life, and ensure stable production processes in the plastics processing industry. Watch his statement to learn more about the incredible benefits these solutions bring to customers. 📅 Explore more of Oerlikon’s surface solutions at our booth! We're here until October 19 and look forward to demonstrating how our strong portfolio can help you increase production efficiency. 📍 Messe Friedrichshafen, Germany, Hall 1, Booth A1-1216. #Fakuma2024  

📍 Meet us at Fakuma Messe 2024 to explore our first-class surface solutions for industrial plastics processing! Oerlikon Balzers offers innovative coatings that protect your tools from abrasive wear and corrosion, extend service life, and ensure stable production processes: 🔴 BALINIT® MOLDENA – For injection molding of recyclable plastics 🔴 BALINIT® MAYURA – High-precision coating for non-ferrous molds in injection molding 🔴 BALITHERM® PRIMEFORM – Heat treatment for molds with brilliant surfaces Eco-friendly coatings that enable the processing of recycled plastics and support the circular economy are a key part of Oerlikon's sustainability strategy. Combined with hot runner systems from our sister brand Oerlikon HRSflow, injection molding and extrusion processes are optimized with Oerlikon Balzers' surface solutions. These perfectly coordinated solutions ensure a smooth production flow, increase efficiency, and deliver high-quality plastic products. 📍 Where to find us? Friedrichshafen, Germany, Hall 1, Booth A1-1216. Our team of experts will be here until October 19 to advise you on the perfect solutions for your plastics processing challenges. #Fakuma2024

📅 The Oerlikon team welcomes you to Fakuma Messe 2024 – International Trade Fair for Plastics Processing! Together with our sister brand, Oerlikon HRSflow, we’re showcasing our surface technologies for the plastics processing industry – from advanced hot runner systems to high-performance thin-film coatings for molds that significantly increase productivity. Join us to explore how these technologies are setting standards in plastics processing! We look forward to welcoming you in Friedrichshafen, Germany, from October 15-19. Discover our surface solutions and meet our experts at Fakuma to discuss how we can maximize the efficiency of your tools! 📅 Find us in Hall 1, Booth A1-1216. Stay tuned throughout the week for updates and insights from Fakuma 2024! #Fakuma2024

🌍 Protecting materials and resources while driving efficiency in power generation! ⚡ Blades and vanes of steam turbines are highly stressed components, constantly subjected to extreme thermal conditions, water steam corrosion, erosion, and fretting wear. To meet these challenges, BALINIT® TURBINE PRO provides exceptional protection, ensuring components can endure high temperatures while resisting oxidation in steam environments. Additionally, this sustainable PVD coating reduces downtimes and extends maintenance cycles, enhancing turbine reliability for more efficient power generation. Its advanced structure offers an optimal balance of high hardness and compressive stress, ensuring top performance on steel, super alloys, and titanium components.

🔎 When the toughest jobs demand tough solutions: Diamond coatings make the difference! 💎 As industries push for lighter and more durable materials, the demand for tools capable of machining these materials with high efficiency is on the rise. From CFRP and ceramics to aluminum compounds, ensuring a longer tool life and superior process reliability is key. This is where BALDIA diamond coatings come in. Though complex to produce, these coatings drastically reduce abrasive wear, boosting productivity and tool performance, especially in sectors like automotive, aerospace, medical technology, and mold making. Read the full article and discover how BALDIA diamond coatings help to machine these special materials! 

Born to evolve. Made to last. BALINIT® ALCRONA EVO – Setting the standard in universal gear machining for e-mobility.   Reduction and planetary gears are essential in electric vehicles to control speed, and producing these requires high-precision, costly skiving tools capable of machining both inner and outer ring gears efficiently. Our latest innovation, BALINIT ALCRONA EVO, has proven its value by significantly reducing flank wear, extending tool life, and lowering production costs.   A transmission manufacturer confirmed its performance, achieving impressive results with a HSS Helical Skiving Cutter, delivering a remarkable 34% increase in tool life. With 50% less flank wear, BALINIT ALCRONA EVO continues to demonstrate its ability to enhance efficiency and durability in this dry cutting application. This reduction in wear not only decreases regrinding volume but also extends the number of regrinding cycles of these costly tools, reducing the cost per part by 25% for the producer.    Stay tuned for more extensive and impressive testing results!   ⚙️ Technical Specifications: Tool: HSS Helical Skiving Cutter, D = 112 mm Workpiece: 20MnCr5, Module 2.65 Cutting Parameters: vc = 244 m/min, f = 350-550 mm/min Source: Transmission Manufacturer

🌍 Perfect Synergy for Superior Plastics Processing - Join Us at FAKUMA 2024! Oerlikon Balzers and Oerlikon HRSflow are bringing the best of both worlds to Fakuma Messe 2024 – combining advanced PVD coatings with cutting-edge hot runner systems for superior plastics processing! Our innovative surface solutions protect molds from abrasive wear and corrosion, extending tool life, stabilizing production, and ensuring high-quality results. When paired with Oerlikon HRSflow's hot runner systems, the result is optimized material flow, reduced cycle times, and unmatched productivity. 💡 Ready to elevate your production with sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective solutions? Visit us from October 15-19 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, at Hall 1, Booth A1-1216. Let’s talk innovation – our Oerlikon team looks forward to meeting you and discussing the perfect solution for your plastics processing needs! #FAKUMA2024