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Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)

The typical process temperature for CVD coatings is 900 to 1050 °C for the HT CVD process and 720 to 900 °C for the CVD process. The base materials are tungsten carbide, tool steel, high-temperature nickel alloys, ceramics, and graphite. Tempered steel tools and components need to be heat treated after coating to achieve the desired hardness.

Core Benefits:

Low stress

Diffusion bonding forms resulting in excellent coating adhesion

High load-bearing capacity

Excellent coating uniformity, regardless of the shape of the part

Capable of coating parts with complex geometries, including some parts with internal diameters

Chemical Vapor Phase Aluminizing (CVA)

CVA is an advanced technology that provides an environmentally friendly, better-performing alternative to traditional packaging, unpackaging, and slurry technologies. CVA also guarantees:

Core Benefits:

The process is environmentally friendly and does not produce waste powder

Precise control of the deposition process

Offers the possibility of coating the internal cooling channels

Uniform thickness coating is applied to large surfaces

It can be coated on a wide range of materials

Low surface defect density

Plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition (PACVD)

The PACVD process is used for conductive and non-conductive substrates over a very wide range of coating temperatures below 200 °C, with typical thicknesses in the range of 2 - 3 microns. DLC coatings offer excellent hardness, wear resistance, and low coefficient of friction in dry or underlubricated conditions. The coating structure is non-crystalline and contains about 70% sp3 bonding, which explains the high hardness of the coating (10-40 GPa)

Core Benefits:

Rich substrates

High-precision substrates do not deform

No post-processing is required

A gas process that does not require rotation for uniform coating of 3D geometry

Green technologies for precipitates, processes and products

Diamond-like carbon (DLC)

Diamond-like carbon coatings (DLCs) can be deposited through different techniques such as PVD arcing, PVD sputtering, and PACVD processes. By selecting different techniques and deposition parameters, a variety of performance characteristics can be obtained, including hydrogenated and non-hydrogenated DLC coatings. DLC coatings are environmentally friendly coatings that can be used to reduce friction, wear, and corrosion. They can also be used to alter electrical conductivity and wettability. Because the colors of DLC coatings (ranging from anthracite to deep black) are attractive, they are often used in decorative applications such as watchmaking, jewelry, kitchen and bathroom hardware, automotive interiors, firearms, and other areas for both aesthetics and performance.

Core Benefits:

Low coefficient of friction

Superior abrasion protection

It has excellent protection against friction, cold welding and micro-vibration wear

Corrosion protection in specific corrosive media

From anthracite to deep black, it is colorful and attractive

Laser hardening process

The laser hardening process offers many advantages over conventional heat treatment techniques – from an economic point of view, it increases productivity, reproductivity and product quality. In many applications, local treatment and low heating reduce distortion, and rapid cooling results in a good microstructure. Laser surface treatment can be divided into solid-state conversion process and melting process. The former includes martensitic hardening, tempering, and flushing, while the latter includes remelting, alloying, cladding, and diffusion hardening.

Core Benefits:

Wear Resistance: The primary advantage of laser quenching is improved wear resistance. As a result, abrasive wear is reduced to a great extent.

Higher hardness: Laser-hardened surfaces are harder than abrasive media, and adhesive wear can also be affected by reducing the coefficient of friction.

Improved Surface Fatigue Properties: Additionally, laser hardening improves the fatigue properties of surfaces thanks to increased compressive stress, which increases the bearing capacity to a level above the applied Hertz stress.