This new machine provides innovative and diversified design potentials for modern layer architectures (including, for example, morphology, composition, doping and nanostructures). It can be fitted with both PVD arc and sputter equipment. Combination of these technologies to allow hybrid processes is also possible.
Innovations such as a new evaporator technology and new layer systems have been integrated into the modular concept on a single platform. The benefits of this arrangement: the system is flexible and expansion‑capable, and also significantly reduces coating cost per piece while simultaneously enhancing productivity. Its design is completely new and is based on the guiding principle of "Form follows function".
The background to this innovation can be found in the market's increasingly demanding requirements for PVD coatings. An improved coating must not only enhance tool service‑lives, but also achieve the lowest possible coating cost per piece. Sulzer Metaplas has further refined and developed its system technology to meet these requirements, and the new coating machine fulfills all the expectations which customers now rightly have for a reliable, high‑performance system.