In-House PVD Coating Capabilities
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Better Edge now offers in-house Oerlikon Balzers Coatings
Advantages of these coatings:
AlCrN-based
- Optimized process parameters and modified layer structure
- Significantly strengthened performance profile
Broad application range - Very high wear resistance and excellent hot hardness
- Vastly improved tool lifetimes compared to conventional all-round coatings
- Very good thermal shock stability
- Top results in both wet and dry machining and at the highest of cutting speeds
- Usable at significantly higher cutting speeds
- Increased machine utilization and productivity
- Groundbreaking all-round coating
TiAlN-based
- Optimized hardness to residual compressive stress ratio
- Excellent coating adhesion
- Ideal for highly stressed components
- Uniform wear behavior
- Higher surface quality
- Improved chip flow
- Greater chemical and thermal stability
- Dry machining and minimum quantity lubrication machining
- Higher cutting speeds
AlTiN- based
- Nanolayer structure and specific layer composition
- Consistent prevention of crack growth
- Versatile application in high end drilling
- Optimal balance between residual stress, hardness and fracture toughness
- Applications at moderate and high cutting speeds possible
- Enormous abrasion-resistance and high hot hardness
- High tool lifetimes
- Extremely smooth coating surface
- Trouble-free chip transport
- Reduction of cutting forces
- Outstanding oxidation resistance
- Very high tool stability, especially of the cutting edges
- Extremely high service life, even with deep hole and dry drilling
When providing standard reconditioning services, we re-coat the tool with the same type of coating the tool came to us with. We also provide toll coating services for the following PVD coatings:
- AITiN
- TiAIN
- TiN
- AP (Proprietary Coating)
- Hyperlox
- Kabrlyn PVD Coatings
Most regrinding houses use independent toll coaters, who use generic recipes for particular coatings, regardless of the type of tool or part that is in their chamber. At Better Edge, our coatings are optimized for drills and end mills. Controlled processes and capabilities for both standard and proprietary coatings provide better performance, increased flexibility and faster deliveries in our service from having our own in-house PVD coating center.
The most common coatings provided on high performance carbide drills are Titanium Nitride (TiN), Titanium Aluminum Nitride (TiAlN) and Aluminum Titanium Nitride (AlTiN). For end mills, TiAlN and AlTiN coatings are most prevalent. In order to optimize adhesion, we re-coat tools with the same type of coating the tools came to us with. However, when our customer asks us to enhance a tool for a particular application, we are often providing him with one of our own, proprietary coatings – Kabrlyn Advantage, or Kabrlyn Plus. We can also provide Titanium Diboride coating (TiB2), a high performance coating for machining Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys. This coating has also had good success in machining Titanium.
Regardless of which coating we provide, the process is controlled and managed by our expert staff, providing you with the best quality and highest performing tool possible.
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