Platit AG is a Swiss company that manufactures and markets coating equipment for the manufacturing cutting tool industry.
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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 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
editPVD 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