PLATIT
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| Company type | Private (Swiss AG) |
|---|---|
| Industry | industrial engineering and manufacturing |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | Selzach, Switzerland |
Key people | Dominik Blösch, CEO |
| Products | surface technologies |
| Parent | BCI Group |
| Website | www.platit.com |
Platit AG is a Swiss company that manufactures and markets coating equipment for the manufacturing cutting tool industry.
Platit was founded by the Blösch group in 1992 .The company’s headquarters are located in Selzach, Switzerland,.[1] Subsidiaries are located in the Chicago, USA,[2] Shanghai, China, Seoul, South Korea, Roskilde, Denmark, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. There are 465 installations on 38 countries.[3] Platit is wholly mainly owned by BCI Group,[4] a Swiss conglomerate that focusses on products for the Swiss watch industry.
Products[edit]
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,[5] Nanocomposites,[6] TripleCoatings3,[7] and QuadCoatings4.[8]
Platit manufactures Cathodic arc coating units to deposit PVD coatings.[9][10][11]
It is one of the technology leaders in physical vapor deposition coating technology.[12][13][14][15][16][17]
References[edit]
- ^ SF - Swiss National TV Interview with Platit president Erich Blösch
- ^ Platit USA
- ^ Compendium 2013 Archived 2014-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Blösch Company
- ^ 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
- ^ Veprek, S.: Different Approaches to Superhard Coatings and Nanocomposites, Thin Solid Fils 476 (2005( 1-29), Elsevier, London
- ^ Biermann, D.: Spanende Fertigung, Vulkan Verlag, Essen, 2012 ISBN 978-3-8027-2965-2
- ^ T. Cselle a.o..: QuadCoatings4 – New Generation of PVD coatings for cutting Tools – ISSN Nr. 0997 – 6981
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jilek, M. a.o: Present and possible future applications of superhard Nanocomposite coatings – Surface and Coating Technology, V. 133-134, Nov/2000, p.145-151
- ^ Morstein a.o.: Influence of oxygen content on structure and properties of multi-element AlCrSiON oxynitride thin films - Thin Solid Films, Volume 520, issue 5 (December 30, 2011), p. 1597-1602
- ^ Mattox, M.: Handbook of Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Processes, Noyes Publications, Westwood, USA, | ISBN 0815520379 | ISBN 978-0815520375
- ^ Publication of the European communities: Regulation (EC) - No 139/2004 Thin Film Industries - Article 6(1)(b) - Date: 17/06/2009
- ^ L.E.K.: Thin Film coating Market, München, August, 2007
- ^ Frankfurt, 2013 Surface Technology, VDMA
- ^ BusinessWeek: Platit company information
- ^ Fortune: Innovative Coating Equipment for Global Market, October 23, 2006 / No.18