Industrial gas turbine (IGT) manufacturers and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) personnel are continually seeking new ways to improve the performance and longevity of critical components.

The problem being addressed by the U.S. Army was that wear and corrosion require the artillery personnel to replace chromium-coated spindles well before they reach their usable end-of-life. The ...

The automotive industry is complex. Alongside pressures to improve the sustainability of production processes and the vehicles rolling off the line, carmakers are also looking to push the limits of ...

: An example of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating is Oerlikon Balzers’ BALINIT C. The coating is a WC/C ductile carbide carbon coating that is highly resistant to adhesive wear (scuffing) in ...

The global PVD market is segmented by product type (equipment, material, services), technology (thermal evaporation, sputtering), application (medical devices, photovoltaics, cutting tools, data ...

VALENCIA, CA, UNITED STATES, February 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Advanced Coating Technologies (ACT), a Valencia-based provider of precision PVD and DLC coating ...

Typical physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings are 20 times thinner than a human hair, yet they can drastically improve performance, boost reliability, and extend service lives of tool and ...

For the most part of its long history, the clock has been an essential tool in not only telling time, but also in navigation. Due to war and improved globalization and commerce, the wristwatch ...