| 2007
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Introduction of BALINIT® ALDURA, novel coating with dual structure for machining hardened steels. First coating centres in Romania and Turkey.
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| 2006
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In September 2006 Balzers becomes Oerlikon Balzers Coating and commits to its hundred years of industrial history and the traditional strengths of the Oerlikon corporation.
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| 2005
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First coating centre in Argentina.
Introduction of Superior BALINIT® carbon coatings: BALINIT® DLC STAR
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| 2004
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Introduction of the first aluminium chromium nitride coating of ”Generation 6”:
BALINIT® ALCRONA.
First coating centres in China and Hungary.
The Balzers Coating Guide for forming tools is published.
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| 2003
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The Balzers Coating Guide for cutting tools is published.
Introduction of ”Generation 6“, a new coating generation.
Balzers celebrates 25 years of BALINIT®.
First coating centres in Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands.
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| 2002
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Introduction of the BALINIT® X.CEED titanium aluminium nitride coating.
Introduction of the BALINIT® CNI chromium nitride coating.
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| 2001
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Introduction of BALINIT® FUTURA NANO, the first nano-structured coating .
First coating centre in Luxembourg.
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| 2000
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BALINIT®-coated components in the world's first mass-production 3-litre car (VW Lupo 3L TDI).
Introduction of the BALINIT® DLC carbon coating.
Oerlikon-Bührle Holding changes its name to "Unaxis".
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| 1999
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Second UK coating centre in Elland, Yorkshire.
First coating centres in Austria, Singapore and Mexico.
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| 1998
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Introduction of the BALINIT® HARDLUBE hybrid coating.
First coating centre in Brazil.
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| 1997
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Introduction of the BALINIT® DIAMOND coating.
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| 1996
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The new TiAlN coatings BALINIT® FUTURA and BALINIT® X.TREME make dry and hard machining possible.
First coating centre in Korea and Switzerland.
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| 1994
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First coating centre in India.
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| 1992
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First coating centre in Belgium.
Balzers converts to CFC-free, ultrasonic cleaning.
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| 1991
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Balzers Ltd moves to Milton Keynes.
Introduction of the BALINIT® C (WC/C) carbon coating.
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| 1988
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First coating centre in Sweden.
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| 1987
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First coating centre in Japan.
Introduction of the BALINIT® B titanium carbo-nitride coating.
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| 1986
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First coating centre in France.
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| 1985
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First coating centre planned in UK.
The first application of coatings to precision components.
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| 1984
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First coating centres in Germany, Spain and the USA.
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| 1983
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First coating centre in Italy.
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| 1980
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Twist drills coated by Balzers are shown for the first time at an exhibition in Germany.
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| 1978
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On 1 September, the official go-ahead was given for the development and marketing of PVD hard coatings for tools with BALINIT® A.
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| 1977
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First trials of TiN-coated forming tools are successful
(service life increased by a factor of 4).
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| 1976
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Oerlikon-Bührle Holding AG becomes the company's sole proprietor.
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| 1974
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Balzers decides to develop scratch-proof gold-coloured PVD coatings for the watch industry.
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| 1946
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With the support of Prince Franz Josef II and Swiss industrialist Emil Georg Bührle, Professor Max Auwärter founded Gerätebauanstalt Balzers. The objective was to make the then largely unknown and little-researched vacuum thin-film technology useable on an industrial scale. Since no systems and equipment for the production of thin-film coatings were available at the time, the company developed and produced them in-house. The first popular applications were sun protection and anti-reflection coatings for ophthalmic lenses, anti-reflection coatings for camera lenses, optical filters and reflectors and thin films for electronic applications.
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