High-performance Coatings
We have also developed comprehensive services for reconditioning tools to original manufacturer quality based on our coating expertise. As a result, we can guarantee users the highest levels of quality and process reliability – in all relevant markets worldwide.
Precision tools have enormous potential to improve productivity in the mechanical processing of modern construction materials. Coatings play a key role in this.
While the productive efficiency of tools can only be marginally increased through new cutting materials and enhanced cutting geometries, innovative high-performance coatings offer genuine leaps in performance. The optimal matching of materials, geometries and laminates to the respective application is a must for this.
Demands are high. In their desire to achieve the longest possible machine running times, users are looking for extended tool life and higher cutting and feed rates in order to increase productivity and reduce downtime to a minimum. Today’s environmentally friendly processes, such as dry machining and minimum quantity lubrication, increase the mechanical and thermal stress on tools, while high-performance materials are pushing even super-hard cutting materials to their performance limits.
In the face of these demands, high-performance coatings have established themselves as a key technology in tool development. While there were only some 10 coating systems on the market at the end of the nineties, the numbers have since skyrocketed. Nowadays, users can choose from more than 70 different coating systems, and the figure continues to rise. The trend is towards coating systems specifically tailored to the respective application. Toolmakers and their expertise are becoming increasingly important as they can combine the know-how needed to optimally match cutting materials, tool geometries and coatings to the parts, materials and production processes involved.
As a performance partner, we can support you on all matters relating to the selection and development of tools, cutting materials and coatings. Our specialists work closely with your application experts to develop tool solutions which will increase your manufacturing productivity and help you achieve sustainable competitive advantages.
