PLATIT

Platit AG is a Swiss company that manufactures and markets coating equipment for the manufacturing cutting tool industry. It is one of the technology leaders in Physical vapor deposition coating technology .,[1][2][3][4][5][6]

PLATIT AG
TypePrivate (Swiss AG)
Industryindustrial engineering and manufacturing
Founded1992
HeadquartersSelzach, Switzerland
Key people
Dominik Blösch, CEO
Productssurface technologies
ParentBCI Group
Websitewww.platit.com

Platit was founded by the Blösch group in 1992 .The company’s headquarters are located in Selzach, Switzerland,.[7] Subsidiaries are located in the Chicago, USA,[8] Shanghai, China, Seoul, South Korea, Roskilde, Denmark, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. There are 465 installations on 38 countries.[9] Platit is wholly mainly owned by BCI Group,[10] a Swiss conglomerate that focusses on products for the Swiss watch industry.

Competitors include Oerlikon Balzers, Ionbond (IHI Japan), Hauzer Techno Coating (IHI Japan), (Metaplas Ionbond), and Cemecon Germany.

Products

PVD coatings are typically applied to cutting tools – such as drills, hobs or endmills -, molds and dies, and machine components to extend their lifetime. Typical PVD coatings include Titanium nitride (TiN), TiCN, or TiAlN, AlCrN,[11] Nanocomposites,[12] TripleCoatings3,[13] and QuadCoatings4.[14]

Platit manufactures Cathodic arc coating units to deposit PVD coatings. Tools or machine components are loaded into a vacuum chamber, and heated to several hundred degrees Celsius to start a process in which metal from cathodes is evaporated and deposited on the substrates. Typically, cathodes are planar (flat), while Platit's LARC process (LAteral Rotated Cathodes) features cylindrical cathodes that have several advantages over the traditional setup, including the ability to deposit smooth coating surfaces and a wide variance of coating structures.,[15][16][17]

2017 Platit introduced the revolutionary LACS® Technology, which combines arcing and sputtering. As Platit's customers are generally small- to medium-size companies, their coating units tend to be smaller in chamber size and capacity than competitor's models. But Platit produces big dedicated coating units also, e.g. for long broaches.

References
  1. Mattox, M.: Handbook of Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Processes, Noyes Publications, Westwood, USA, | ISBN 0815520379 | ISBN 978-0815520375
  2. Publication of the European communities: Regulation (EC) - No 139/2004 Thin Film Industries - Article 6(1)(b) - Date: 17/06/2009
  3. L.E.K.: Thin Film coating Market, München, August, 2007
  4. Frankfurt, 2013 Surface Technology, VDMA
  5. BusinessWeek: Platit company information
  6. Fortune: Innovative Coating Equipment for Global Market, October 23, 2006 / No.18
  7. SF - Swiss National TV Interview with Platit president Erich Blösch
  8. Platit USA
  9. Compendium 2013 Archived 2014-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Blösch Company
  11. Cselle,T.: Application of Coatings for Tooling – Qua Vadis 2005? – Vacuum’s Best, Wiley Press, London,2005 Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  12. Veprek, S.: Different Approaches to Superhard Coatings and Nanocomposites, Thin Solid Fils 476 (2005( 1-29), Elsevier, London
  13. Biermann, D.: Spanende Fertigung, Vulkan Verlag, Essen, 2012 ISBN 978-3-8027-2965-2
  14. T. Cselle a.o..: QuadCoatings4 – New Generation of PVD coatings for cutting Tools – ISSN Nr. 0997 – 6981
  15. T. Cselle: Application of Coatings for Tooling - Quo Vadis 2005? Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, VIP Vacuum's Best, Wiley Press, 2005.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.