engineering and manufacturing founded 1992 headquarters selzach switzerland key people erich bl sch president tibor cselle ceo products surface technologies parent bci group website www.platit.com pi111plus new pi1511 pi411 pi311 pi211 platit ag is a swiss company that manufactures and markets coating equipment for the manufacturing cutting tool industry . it is one of the technology leaders in physical vapor deposition coating technology . 1 2 3 4 5 6 platit was founded by the bl sch group in 1992 . the company s headquarters are located in selzach switzerland . 7 subsidiaries are located in the chicago usa 8 shanghai china seoul south korea roskilde denmark switzerland and the czech republic . there are 465 installations on 38 countries . 9 platit is wholly mainly owned by bci group 10 a swiss conglomerate that focusses on products for the swiss watch industry . competitors include oerlikon balzers sulzer ionbond ihi japan hauzer techno coating ihi japan metaplas ionbond and cemecon germany . products edit pvd coatings are typically applied to cutting tools such as drills hobs or endmills molds and dies and machine components to extend their lifetime . typical pvd coatings include titanium nitride tin ticn or tialn alcrn 11 nanocomposites 12 triplecoatings3 13 and quadcoatings4 . 14 platit manufactures cathodic arc coating units to deposit pvd coatings . tools or machine components are loaded into a vacuum chamber and heated to several hundred degrees celsius to start a process in which metal from cathodes is evaporated and deposited on the substrates . typically cathodes are planar flat while platit s larc process lateral rotated cathodes features cylindrical cathodes that have several advantages over the traditional setup including the ability to deposit smooth coating surfaces and a wide variance of coating structures . 15 16 17 as platit s customers are generally small to medium size companies their coating units tend to be smaller in chamber size and capacity than competitor s models.but platit produces big dedicated coating units also e.g. for long broaches . references edit mattox m. handbook of physical vapor deposition pvd processes noyes publications westwood usa isbn 0815520379 isbn 978 081552037 5 publication of the european communities regulation ec no 139 2004 thin film industries article 6 1 b date 17 06 2009 l.e.k. thin film coating market m nchen august 2007 frankfurt 2013 surface technology vdma businessweek platit company information fortune innovative coating equipment for global market october 23 2006 no. 18 sf swiss national tv interview with platit president erich bl sch platit usa compendium 2013 bl sch company cselle t. application of coatings for tooling qua vadis 2005 vacuum s best wiley press london 2005 veprek s. different approaches to superhard coatings and nanocomposites thin solid fils 476 2005 1 29 elsevier london biermann d. spanende fertigung vulkan verlag essen 2012 isbn 978 3 8027 2965 2 t. cselle a.o. . quadcoatings4 new generation of pvd coatings for cutting tools issn nr . 0997 6981 t. cselle application of coatings for tooling quo vadis 2005 vip vacuum s best wiley press 2005 . jilek m. a.o present and possible future applications of superhard nanocomposite coatings surface and coating technology v. 133 134 nov 2000 p. 145 151 morstein a.o. influence of oxygen content on structure and properties of multi element alcrsion oxynitride thin films thin solid films volume 520 issue 5 december 30 2011 p. 1597 1602 external links edit website von platit pvd retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title platit & oldid 735823982 categories manufacturing companies of switzerland navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 august 2016 at 09 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view