Oerlikon Balzers, the Coating Services segment is the world’s leading supplier of coating equipment and processes for tools and precision components. The equipment is both sold to customers and deployed in own coating centers.

Coating tools protects them from wear and friction, for increased service life and performance. This in turn drastically reduces the cost of wear, machine downtime, scrap, and repair work. Coated components exhibit much lower friction coefficients. In the automotive industry, for example, coated engine components are deployed to boost fuel economy and reduce atmospheric emissions.

Over 20 000 customers worldwide benefit from Oerlikon Balzers Coating' coatings and coating equipment. Key customer segments are the automotive industry and its suppliers, the aircraft industry, the general engineering industry, tool manufacturers as well as the metalworking and plastics processing industries. Oerlikon Balzers Coating operates over 70 coating centers in 26 countries and employs around 2300 people.