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 1993 .The company’s headquarters are located in Selzach, Switzerland.SF - Swiss National TV Interview with Platit president Erich Blösch Subsidiaries are located in the Chicago, USA,Platit USA Shanghai, China, and the Czech Republic. There are 650 installations on 43 countries.Compendium 2013 Platit is wholly mainly owned by BCI Group,Blösch Company a Swiss conglomerate that focusses on products for the Swiss watch industry.
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,Cselle, T.: Application of Coatings for Tooling – Qua Vadis 2005? – Vacuum’s Best, Wiley Press, London, 2005 Nanocomposites,Veprek, S.: Different Approaches to Superhard Coatings and Nanocomposites, Thin Solid Fils 476 (2005( 1-29), Elsevier, London TripleCoatings3,Biermann, D.: Spanende Fertigung, Vulkan Verlag, Essen, 2012 and QuadCoatings4.T. Cselle a.o..: QuadCoatings4 – New Generation of PVD coatings for cutting Tools – ISSN Nr. 0997 – 6981
Platit manufactures coating units using Cathodic arc and sputtering technology to deposit PVD coatings.T. Cselle: Application of Coatings for Tooling - Quo Vadis 2005? , 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.145-151Morstein 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
It is one of the technology leaders in physical vapor deposition coating technology.Mattox, M.: Handbook of Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Processes, Noyes Publications, Westwood, USA, | | Publication of the European communities: Regulation (EC) - No 139/2004 Thin Film Industries - Article 6(1)(b) - Date: 17/06/2009L.E.K.: Thin Film coating Market, München, August, 2007Frankfurt, 2013 Surface Technology, VDMAFortune: Innovative Coating Equipment for Global Market, October 23, 2006 / No.18
References
External links Website of Platit PVD