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Introduction of the second aluminium chromium based coating of "Generation 6": BALINIT® HELICA.
New coating system RS 90 for high volume coating.
First coating centres in Argentina and Canada.
Introduction of superior BALINIT® carbon coatings: BALINIT® DLC STAR
Second expansion of the coating centre in Sint-Truiden (B)
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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.
Third coating centre in the Benelux: Tiel (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 .
Second coating centre in the Benelux: Niedercorn (Luxembourg).
This centre will be the production centre for BALINIT®DIAMOND coating for Balzers Worldwide.
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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".
Start of BALINIT®C (WC/C) production in Sint-Truiden (B)
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| 1999
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First coating centres in Austria, Singapore and Mexico.
Investment in a new technology in Sint-Truiden (B): BAI-1200
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| 1998
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Introduction of the BALINIT® HARDLUBE hybrid coating.
First coating centre in Brazil.
Expansion of the coating centre in Sint-Truiden (B) for Mould Technology.
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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
Start of Pick-Up service in the Benelux
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| 1992
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First coating centre in the Benelux: Sint-Truiden (Belgium)
Oerlikon Balzers Coating converts to CFC-free, ultrasonic cleaning.
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| 1991
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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 carbon nitride coating.
Start-up of a sales office for BALINIT®coatings in the Benelux: Brussels
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| 1986
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First coating centre in France.
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| 1985
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The first application of coatings to precision components.
First coating centre in Great Britain.
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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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