Coating & Surface Treatment Equipment

Articles • April 1, 2008 • Joseph Hazelton

Harder With Silicon

Several types of cutting tools can be protected with coatings harder than regular A1TiN coatings by combining A1TiN grains with an amorphous silicon-nitride matrix.

Articles • October 1, 2007 • Jim Haag

New Angle on Aluminum

PVD titanium-diboride coating machines aluminum without built-up edge.

Articles • October 1, 2006 • Fred Teeter

Thin Wins

Thin-film coatings evolve to improve cutting performance and accommodate new tool and workpiece materials.

Articles • October 1, 2005 • Alan Richter

Recipe for Enhancement

Compared to AlTiN and TiAlN, the percentage of aluminum is higher in an aluminum-chromium-nitride PVD tool coating.

Articles • August 1, 2005

CTE’s 50th Anniversary Supplement

Technological developments in manufacturing during the last half century.

Articles • October 1, 2004 • Susan Woods

Coat, Please

There is more to recoating cutting tools than meets the eye.

Articles • December 1, 2003 • Mark Olbrantz

New equipment for depositing nanocomposite coatings

New equipment allows deposition of hard and tough nanocomposite tool coatings.

Articles • December 1, 2003 • Alan Richter

Top Coat

Molybdenum disulfide tool coatings improve the machining of aluminum, titanium and nickel-base alloys--even when dry.

Articles • January 1, 2003 • Alan Richter

Raising Al

Aluminum-titanium-nitride coatings continue to evolve.

Articles • January 1, 2003 • Rich Dzierwa

Slippery When Blue

A coating system that combines a patented surface impingement process and tungsten disulfide prolongs cutting tool life, but does it promote faster speeds?

Articles • September 1, 2002 • Fred Teeter

Layers of Control

In-house coating of cutting tools is more viable than ever.

Articles • May 1, 2002 • Roger Bollier

Crystal Clear

Crystalline-diamond coatings can make tool performance sparkle.