Case Study Library

These Case Studies are your chance to see how real problems have been solved by different surface engineering technologies. The range of problems and solutions is very broad. It may be that your problem, or something very like it, is presented in one of the case studies currently available here. We are constantly getting in fresh material so keep looking regularly.

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NASURF Case Studies

Balzers Invest in RCS Machine
Today’s and tomorrow’s high performance tools require tailor-made and ever more complex coating solutions. These in turn ask for machines that can apply various materials through specific processes. That is why Balzers a world innovator in PVD technology, with plants in Milton Keynes and Elland in W Yorkshire have just taken delivery of its latest state of the art coating machine, the Balzers RCS, which will help meet the companies increasing demand for its PVD coatings.
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The Future is NANO
Oerlikon Balzers Coating, a global market leader in performance-enhancing coatings for tools and precision components is pleased to announce its latest development in high technology coatings: BALINIT® FUTURA NANO, a high-performance TiAlN-based coating.
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BALINIT®C on Gears
Balinit®C is in amorphous carbon-based DLC coating with remarkable properties. It has a hardness of 1100HV and a coefficient of friction, dry against steel, of ~0.15 and is only ~2mm thick.
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Balinit® Coatings Can Reduce Wear, Increase Production and Save You Money
In its cold forming operations, Krupp-Presta often uses tools exposed to very high working forces. BALINIT® coated tools are essential to this operation which requires a high degree of metal deformation.
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