GfE, founded in 1911 and being part of AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V., Netherlands, is a world leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality coating materials for PVD thin film applications.

With more than 100 years of experience in materials science, technology, engineering and manufacturing, our core competencies include melting, powder processing and thermal spraying. These capabilities enable us to supply elemental metals, metal alloys, oxides and cermets in all consumable PVD forms, including arc cathodes, evaporation materials as well as planar and rotatable sputtering targets up to 4 meters (152") in length. With our coating materials "Made in Germany" and reliable raw material sourcing, partly within the AMG Group, we are the right partner for your requirements in thin film photovoltaics, thermal solar, Low-E, solar control, mirror coatings, wear resistance and decorative coatings as well as thin films for ophthalmic lenses and precision optics.

GfE operates three production sites in Germany and North America with about 500 employees. GfE Metalle und Materialien GmbH and GfE Fremat GmbH are subsidiaries of GfE Gesellschaft für Elektrometallurgie mbH, a leading global manufacturer of high-performance metals and materials. Beside metallic and ceramic materials for coating technologies, its product range includes alloys and functional materials for the aircraft industry, technical powders, vanadium chemicals, semi-finished products, thermal spraying as well as different scientific technical services.

We are certificated in accordance to ISO 9001, EN 9100, ISO 14001, ISO 50001 as well as ISO 45001 and operate an accredited laboratory according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025 to demonstrate our absolute commitment to quality and safety.

New products are continuously developed in close cooperation with and according to the requirements of our customers. GfE's innovative high-performance materials deliver efficiency, reliability and best value to the thin film manufacturing processes of our customers.

For more information, please visit www.gfe.com or contact us at coatings@gfe.com

 

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GP Plasma
www.gpplasma.com

GP Plasma's team of experts offers consulting services for the thin films coating industry. With decades of combined experience in our specific fields, we can help solve your complex materials problems, optimize your process and design the equipment to produce your products. We can troubleshoot, tune and model your coating processes in order to improve your yields as well as to decrease your time to market for new applications. In addition, we offer hands on, customized training with your staff, minimizing the time necessary to bring your team up to speed and maximizing efficiency. Our systems design team can model and design pilot production systems. Having designed equipment for the solar, glass and hard coatings industries, we can manage the requirements of any process no matter how demanding.

We also work with our partners in order to educate others about new technologies and their applications. Having worked in the HIPIMS field for over 15 years, we are experts in designing equipment and processes for dense, conformal sputtered coatings. Our partner Duralar, specializes in a unique Hollow Cathode deposition technology which can deposit conformal DLC coatings on complex geometries as well as the ID of tubes with a 15:1 aspect ratio. This PECVD process allows us to also produce coatings which offer true corrosion protection and which can be deposited at rates greater than 20 µm per hour. We also offer Plasma Electrolytic Processing through our partner IBC Materials and Technologies Group. These unique processes allow one to polish metals, strip paint and coatings from metallic substrates as well as to create hard, dense oxide layers on aluminum and titanium alloys.

From forensic analysis to design and optimization, we look forward to increasing your productivity while minimizing your risk.

 

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Hauzer Techno Coating - IHI Group
www.hauzer.nl

Hauzer Techno Coating - IHI Group manufactures PVD and PACVD vacuum equipment for producing metallic or ceramic coatings. The product line consists of machines for efficient mass production of decorative thin films and versatile machines for the production of tribological and functional thin films for the tool and component market. The coaters feature ease of use, repeatable performance, and high throughput, which results in cost-effective treatments. A wide range of coating processes is available, and engineered systems include recommended cleaning processes, application-specific process parameters and development, quality control, and efficient parts flow. Decorative hard coatings are widely produced in Hauzer Flexicoat® equipment. Coatings composed of ZrN, TiN, or CrN and their variants can produce a wide range of colors on metal and plastic substrates and provide long lasting durable properties. Tribological and functional coatings provide a variety of wear protections for cutting and forming tools or modified friction and wear properties for industrial components. Machine configurations are offered to produce coatings like TiN, TiCN, TiAlN, CrN, and DLC. Hauzer has a long track record of successful and worldwide installations and is committed to uncompromising quality, product reliability, and service. Continued development of the equipment and processes makes Hauzer a strong partner for current and future needs in surface engineering.

 

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Horiba Instruments, Inc.
www.horiba.com

The HORIBA Group, made up of 49 companies in 27 countries, is a leading company that provides analytical and measurement systems throughout the world. We are a global company that provides process control instrumentation and analytical solutions to the most advanced manufacturing industries. Our suite of solutions for vacuum coatings applications ranges from digital pressure control to high performance vaporizers and process monitors.

 

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INFICON
www.inficon.com

INFICON offers gas analysis, measurement, and advanced process control through residual gas analyzers (mass spectrometers), particle detectors, helium leak detectors, multi-gas leak detectors, thin film deposition controllers and monitors, RF sensors, and sensor integration and analysis software. Pressure measurement products include vacuum gauges for total pressure measurement, valves, fittings and feedthroughs. These analysis, measurement and control products are vital to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end-users in the complex fabrication of semiconductors and thin film coatings for flat panel displays, solar cells, magnetic and optical storage media, scientific and consumer optics, and architectural glass coatings.

 

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Intellivation, LLC
www.intellivation.com

Intellivation is a leading manufacturer of innovative & state-of-the art vacuum thin film coating equipment and components. The R2R Series web coating systems have a compact and ergonomic design for coating flexible polymer, metal, ceramic and other flexible materials with a wide range of thin films. The PhiMag^™ planar sputter magnetrons and rotary magnet bars offer an industry-leading magnetic, thermal, and mechanical design for precise depositions and high utilization. Intellivation offers other depositions sources and pretreatments to deliver a wide range of solutions with vacuum requirements. Development services with our in-house application laboratory features a R2R330 web coating system and a full materials characterization laboratory for process and product development.

 

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Intlvac Thin Film
www.intlvac.com

Intlvac Thin Film, (ITF) specializes in plasma enhanced thin film coating systems and services. We build a large variety of Ion Beam Etch and Sputter systems, PECVD for Diamond Like Carbon, Electron Beam Evaporation, End Hall Ion Sources and a whole range of specialized sputtering systems running the whole range from R&D to full production. ITF maintains a large thin film lab with 7 in house coating systems, scientists, and analytical equipment to develop customer processes and to provide coating services.

 

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Ionbond Netherlands BV
www.ionbond.com

Ionbond is one of the largest coating service providers for hard, wear-resistant, and low friction coatings and a global leader in PVD, CVD and PACVD coating technology. At Ionbond, we reliably help our customers reach their quality, performance and sustainability goals with our hard, low-friction, wear-resistant coatings based on PVD, PACVD and CVD technologies. Our standardized, tailored or even custom-developed coating solutions serve companies in the aerospace, medical, food contact, automotive, decorative and tooling industries. Since we have 35 job coating centers in 15 countries in Europe, North America and Asia, our customers benefit from the global expertise and local accessibility of one of the largest coating networks in the world. Ionbond is part of IHI group, a Japanese industrial group with significant R&D resources. IHI Group is active in many fields, including energy and resources, social infrastructure, industrial machinery and aero engines.

 

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J.A. Woollam
www.jawoollam.com

The J.A. Woollam Company has over 30 years of experience in spectroscopic ellipsometry. We offer a wide range of spectroscopic ellipsometers for non-destructive materials characterization including thin film thickness (single and multilayer), optical constants, composition, growth/etch rates, and more. We have instruments available for research and manufacturing metrology covering wavelengths in the ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared, and even at THz frequencies. We pride ourselves on creating the most advanced, high-quality and reliable ellipsometers available and working with our customers to solve even the most difficult problems. We are your Ellipsometry Experts.

 

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Junora LTD
www.junoraltd.com

While Junora LTD is new to the sputter target supply chain, the current team of 10 employees have a combined 200 years of experience in sputter targets manufacturing and sputtering process. Junora LTD is commercializing a novel way of making rotary sputter targets from a variety of non-ferrous metals and alloys (Ag, In, Li, Sn, Zn...). Our process will allow us to provide higher levels of quality, more options on re-coating and lower cost of ownership than current fabrication processes.

 

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Kaufman & Robinson, Inc.
www.ionsources.com

Kaufman & Robinson, Inc. (KRI) has been a pioneer and leader in the manufacturing of broad-beam ion and plasma products for over 40 years. With extensive product lines of vacuum-based process tools that interact with materials at the atomic level, KRI is known around the world for providing advance solutions to high-tech industrialists, vacuum system OEMs, and research institutions.

Since the introduction of the ground-breaking and industry changing Kaufman Ion Source, KRI has developed number broad-beam designs, including gridded and gridless source technology, DC or RF discharges, and automated power supply controllers.

Kaufman & Robinson relies on their employee's vast technical knowledge and experience to design and manufacture new, next generation broad-beam products. KRI products are routinely applied in the following commonly accepted processes: Fields, Technologies, & Sciences; Etch uniformities and critical dimensions; Consumer eyewear; MEMS, sensors, & displays; Precision thin film control; Precision optics; Semiconductor; Photonics & lasers; Magnetic data storage; and Medical devices.

KRI's renewed dedication to research & development supports their commitment to innovation and creation of quality products. The evolution and development of a full product line that serves multiple applications and markets drives their dedication to customers, service and all company-wide decisions.

 

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KOLZER SRL
www.kolzer.com

KOLZER design and manufactures advanced vacuum coating machines with the highest quality standards. KOLZER machines guarantee versatility in Metallization and PVD Sputtering treatments as well as repeatability in production. Ideal solution for high capacity in-line production and compact production stations typical for small and medium-sized companies.

Kolzer design and manufacture Vacuum Coating Machines in Milan since 1952 and currently we are recognized as a strong and consolidated player in the European and global market with more than 1300 operating vacuum coating machine worldwide.

 

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Kurdex Corporation
www.kurdex.com

Kurdex is a supplier of vacuum deposition and etch systems for HVM, R&D and Pilot. Products include PVD, EVAP, PECVD, ALD, ARC vacuum deposition and etch/strip tools. Available in in-line, cluster with full automation for any substrate size up to 2300 mm. Supplying equipment to solar cell, semiconductor (packaging), FPD, HDI, hard disk, automotive, thin film batteries, OLED, and LED lighting. Turn key automation, discrete pieces and roll to roll. Contact us for details of our latest products including "Spatial ALD" and volume sputtering tool for solar cell and volume sputter tool for semiconductor/packaging for 200 and 300 mm wafers with "SOFT ETCH".

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KDF Inc.
www.kdf.com

Founded in 1986, KDF is a leading supplier of both new and remanufactured physical vapor deposition batch inline sputtering tools for the mainstream silicon, emerging materials and flat panel display markets.

KDF services an installed base of over 2,000 systems in the field - over half of the semiconductor fabs in the world use a KDF system in wafer process

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Kurt J. Lesker Company
www.lesker.com

The Kurt J. Lesker Company, founded in 1954, is a global manufacturer of vacuum components and complete systems for high vacuum and UHV applications. The company offers more than 14,000 vacuum equipment products from warehouses throughout North America and Europe and has more than 200 employees worldwide. Our Website has full E-commerce capabilities. In addition to standard vacuum flanges, components, feedthroughs, vacuum fluids, and gaskets, we engineer and manufacture magnetron sputtering sources for R&D and large-scale production applications, a wide range of pure materials, custom chambers, and evaporation sources (including organics). Since 1980 our Process Equipment Division has manufactured complete sputter deposition, e-beam and thermal evaporation, molecular beam epitaxy, and laser ablation systems. They range from laboratory bell jar units to fully automated large-scale production systems, with the present emphasis on organic thin-film deposition systems for OLED and PLED flat panel displays and combinatory materials research. Our distributor relationships with major vacuum pump manufacturers enable us to sell a wide variety of coarse pumps; rotary vane and piston pumps; roots pumps; dry piston, scroll, screw, and diaphragm pumps; turbo, drag, and hybrid pumps; diffusion pumps; and ion pumps—often from our stock. Our skilled Vacuum Services group repairs and rebuilds all models of mechanical, diffusion, and turbo-pumps, and reclaims expensive vacuum fluids.

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Materials Science, Inc.
www.msi-pse.com

Materials Science, Inc. was established in 1989 as a supplier of technically superior planar magnetron sputtering cathodes used to produce parts requiring excellent quality, high performance coatings such as precision optics, flexible substrates, storage media and components needing wear, decorative and functional coatings.

Our SunSource™ sputtering sources include practical features designed to enhance reliability and productivity in industrial environments.  The company was the first to introduce injection of sputtering gas through the cathode body and to implement efficient turbulent water flow schemes allowing high power levels without magnet or target overheating.  We were pioneers in the development of a wide uniform target erosion area resulting in stable reactive sputtering processes, long useful target life and higher rates and power densities.  Recently, the company introduced the Kamlokä fast target exchange system allowing target exchanges in minutes regardless of length and eliminating galling and seizure of fasteners that are no longer required.

We have grown over the years by listening to our customers.  Our business philosophy is simple – we want customers to be completely satisfied with our products and services.  This begins with an objective discussion with the customer about their needs and honesty in our response.  We guarantee on-time delivery, competitive pricing, reasonably priced spare parts, complete documentation and highly reliable sputtering sources easily serviced by the user.

 

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Materials Science International, Inc.
www.msitarget.com

Materials Science International, Inc. (MSI), commands a worldwide reputation for its experience in design, manufacture, and service of precious and semiprecious metal targets and specialized components for architectural and industrial glass and electronic coating industries. The quality and reliability of MSI metal targets coupled with the award-winning commitment of providing outstanding customer service are well established in both domestic and international markets. Manufactured designs include rotatable, clamp-down, or bolt-down planar (segmented and monolithic) targets in sizes ranging from small circular to large monolithic targets up to 150 inches in length. MSI has the capability of alloying, melting in air, inert atmosphere, or vacuum depending on the material requirements. To assure reproducible dimensional requirements are met, targets are machined by state-of-the-art CNC machining centers. MSI maintains a Total Quality Management System committed to continuous improvement and total customer satisfaction. The Quality Management System is certified to Q90-01 (ISO-9001:1994) by KPMG. Neil Crabbe, MSI President and CEO, is committed to exceeding customer requirements and expectations through continuous product and service innovations. MSI world headquarters, located in Columbus, Ohio, is housed in a modern 25,000-square-foot facility.

 

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Materion Corporation
www.materion.com

Materion Corporation is a proven provider of specialty materials and innovative solutions with decades of experience in inorganic chemical synthesis and material transformation. We draw on this experience to provide physical vapor deposition (PVD) materials used in thin film coating applications for thin film solar, large area glass, LED lighting, and specialized battery and semiconductor applications.

Our thin film PVD materials offering ranges from custom CIGS and TCO's to precious and non-precious metals. We provide PVD materials in a wide range of sputtering target configurations including cylindrical and large planar geometry and evaporation pieces. Collaboration with other Materion businesses gives us the power to leverage a unique combination of technical expertise, extensive fabrication skills and precious metal refining and recycling services to our customers’ advantage.

Materion is a global advanced materials company dedicated to providing solutions that enable our customers' technologies, and drive their growth. Our products include precious and non-precious specialty metals, precision optical filters, inorganic chemicals and powders, specialty coatings, specialty-engineered beryllium alloys, beryllium and beryllium composites, and engineered clad and plated metal systems. Materion is structured to enhance our ability to provide customers with innovative, best total-cost solutions.

 

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Maxima Sciences LLC
www.max-sci.com

Maxima Sciences LLC provides vacuum deposition consulting, instrument design, and fabrication services to support the vacuum deposition industry. Our staff are experts in Atomic Layer Deposition. Our custom fabrication shop has machining, glass work, or electronics capabilities. We are dedicated to providing creative solutions to today's problem or supporting tomorrow's project.

 

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MKS Instruments, Inc.
www.mksinst.com

MKS Instruments, Inc. is a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure control, power, monitor and analyze critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity. Our products are derived from our core competencies in pressure measurement and control, flow measurement and control, gas and vapor delivery, gas composition analysis, residual gas analysis, leak detection, control and information technology, ozone generation and delivery, RF & DC power, reactive gas generation, and vacuum technology.

 

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Midwest Tungsten Service, Inc.
www.tungsten.com

Midwest Tungsten Service manufactures a wide variety of vacuum evaporation sources including filaments, boats, electron beam and ion beam sources from tungsten, molybdenum and tantalum. MTS also supplies tungsten, molybdenum and tantalum raw material and custom machines parts from these metals. MTS offers its own brand of silicone diffusion pump fluid and TIG welding electrodes. We carry an extensive inventory to assure prompt delivery.

 

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Nor-Cal Products, Inc.
www.n-c.com

Since 1962 Nor-Cal Products, Inc., has manufactured high and ultra-high vacuum components for semiconductor, thin film, surface analysis, and research applications. Nor-Cal has earned a reputation worldwide for quality components, competitive prices, and excellent customer support. Our custom vacuum chambers are unequalled in performance and appearance. In-house electropolishing and special materials, such as vacuum-fired 316L, are available. Our engineers can oversee fabrication of chambers from customer sketches or specifications. Complete engineering drawings of custom items can be supplied upon receipt of order. An entire system can be supplied complete with sample transfer and manipulation devices, stand, pumps, gauges, and deposition monitors. Our isolation valves are the standard for many semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Recently, we have added several new product lines, including a modular valve system with low-cost heated and soft-start options. Our adaptive pressure control system offers 30 times the resolution at 60 times the speed of competitive butterfly valves and controllers. Our new capacitance diaphragm gauges are available in heated and unheated versions for pressures from 100 milliTorr to 1,000 Torr. Our experience with semiconductor process equipment allows us to provide customers with comprehensive solutions to extend downstream preventative maintenance intervals with heater jackets and process-specific foreline traps. Nor-Cal has a chem-clean line, class 1000 cleanroom and offers double bagging for fabrication and semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Please call or visit our web site to request our free 200-page catalog.

 

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Pfeiffer Vacuum, Inc.
www.pfeiffer-vacuum.com

Pfeiffer Vacuum is one of the world's leading providers of vacuum solutions. In addition to a full range of hybrid and magnetically levitated turbopumps, the product portfolio comprises backing pumps, leak detectors, measurement and analysis devices, components as well as vacuum chambers and systems. Ever since the invention of the turbopump by Pfeiffer Vacuum, the company has stood for innovative solutions and high-tech products that are used in the Analytics, Industry, Research & Development, Coating and Semiconductor markets. Our products are backed by a team of experts to assist customers with vacuum system design, installation, and maintenance. Founded in 1890, Pfeiffer Vacuum is active throughout the world today. North American operations are located in Nashua, NH, and offer marketing, sales, service, and repair. In addition, sales and manufacturing offices are located throughout North America including San Jose, CA, Indianapolis, IN and Austin, TX.

 

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Plansee USA LLC
www.plansee.com

Plansee High Performance Materials: Strong Metals for Strong Products: Plansee, the world's leading expert in the field of refractory metal products, is preparing to start our second century of operation. So please help us celebrate our 100th anniversary! Let us illustrate the range of our expertise, as we take raw powders and transform them in-house into the wide range of products that our customers require. From computer chips, to flat-panel display TVs and tablets, solar panels, to cutting tools and medical devices, our sputtering targets are everywhere. You'll find our material in a myriad of other products, just not our name. Let us help you devise the high-quality, custom-fit solution you and your customers require.

 

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Plasmaterials, Inc.
www.plasmaterials.com

PLASMATERIALS, Inc., since 1987, has been supplying the Thin Film Industry with high quality planar and rotatable sputtering targets and evaporation materials for use in Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) equipment and related applications. These high purity materials are provided in nearly every element, alloy, and composition available on the periodic table along with custom compositions. These materials are well suited for industrial applications, laboratory processing, research and development applications, pilot production applications as well as full scale production. For use in the microelectronic, automotive, architectural glass, display, hard coating, semiconductor, optical, packaging, decorative, anti-corrosive, etc. coating applications. In addition, backing plates, e-beam starter sources and crucible liners are all available either "off the shelf" or through custom design. Plasmaterials, Inc. also offers metallic bonding services. The bonding process utilizes a proprietary process for affixing the target directly to the backing plate using low vapor pressure materials. These bonding materials provide the necessary mechanical strength, thermal and electrical conductivity while allowing differential expansion between the target and the backing plate. As a full service company, Plasmaterials, Inc. can provide all of your deposition materials needs. For more information and to help you find solutions for your thin film material needs, please contact one of our sales engineers.

 

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Plasma Process Group
www.plasmaprocessgroup.com

Founded in 1999, Plasma Process Group provides high performance ion beam sources, systems, and components required for precision thin film deposition and etching applications. Our scientists are experts in ion optics, ion beam sources, and associated RF technologies. We offer a fully integrated Broadband OMS in our NEW Techne and Techne 5G ion beam deposition tools. We complement our group with a complete service and support center, servicing a variety of ion beam equipment.

 

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PLASUS GmbH
www.plasus.de

PLASUS GmbH is a leading manufacturer of spectroscopic plasma monitor and process control systems. Founded in 1996, the core competence is the development of turn-key process control systems for industry and R&D applications. The systems are applied for plasma monitoring, process control, process optimization, quality control and spectroscopic plasma analysis in all kind of markets where plasma processes are involved: architectural glass coating, solar cell production, semiconductor industry, hard coating of cutting tools, decorative coatings etc.

Our turnkey multi-channel PLASUS EMICON systems are highly recognized in the market and are applied to a large variety of applications such as PECVD, PVD, reactive sputtering, HIPIMS, endpoint detection, quality control, chamber matching, fault detection, etc.

PLASUS provides also optical in-vacuum components with coating protection device for safe and low maintenance use in production lines.

The spectroscopy software PLASUS SpecLine is a unique software tool for analysing spectral data, which includes an extended and up-to-date database for atomic lines and, in particular, for molecular bands.

PLASUS SpecLine allows a very easy and fast identification of detected species from spectra.

PLASUS has a worldwide distributor network with main representatives in North America and Asia.

 

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Process Materials, Inc.
www.processmaterials.com

The Materials Division of Process Materials, Inc., provides high-purity sputtering targets, evaporation materials, and wire of nearly every element on the periodic table. We manufacture backing plates and offer bonding services and plasma spraying. Products include metals, alloys, and ceramics. Process Materials is a leading source of materials known for quality, consistency, and dependability produced to exact specifications and delivered on time. The Vacuum Equipment Division specializes in remanufactured or upgraded evaporation and sputtering systems including PLC automation. Our "turn-key" systems include installation, training, and a one-year warranty. We inventory systems, box coaters, leak detectors and components. Process Materials has earned a global reputation for its commitment to quality and service where trust is as important as technical knowledge.

 

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ProTech Materials, Inc.
www.protechmaterials.com

ProTech Materials has been provider of thin films materials for the architectural glass, wear resistant coating, solar photo-voltaic, web coating and optical coating industries since 1997. Applying the Protech team's experience in target manufacturing, physical vapor deposition (PVD) and PVD equipment manufacturing, ProTech Materials is positioned to offer customers integrated thin film target material solutions.

ProTech Materials has the unique capability to manufacture custom engineered thin films materials on a small scale for concept and feasibility studies with the ability to rapidly ramp to production quantities when needed.

ProTech provides a wide variety of ceramic, metal and metal alloy sputtering targets, high purity evaporation materials and indium products. Among the many materials offered, ProTech Materials has extensive experience in transparent conductive oxides (TCO), including indium tin oxide (ITO) and alumina doped zinc oxide (AZO). ProTech also offers customer specified engineered targets upon request.

Additional services available include Rotary and Planar bonding, backing plates and backing tubes, as well as, target recycling.

Have unique thin film target material requirements?

In need of engineered materials?

Challenged with cost reduction goals?

ProTech Materials is there to help you.

 

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Providence Metallizing Company, Inc.
www.providencemetallizing.com

Founded in 1951, Providence Metallizing has become one of the largest finishing contractors in the world. Our employees finish over 4 million individually handled parts per week, 24 hours per day, in over a quarter million square feet of floor space. State-of-the-art equipment and exclusive processes enable us to offer the widest range of surface finishes anywhere. Applications include electronics, industrial, automotive, lamp and lighting, hardware, cosmetics, jewelry, and a host of other decorative applications. Our services include sputtering technology, EMI/RFI shielding, highly reflective coatings, cosmetic and decorative vacuum metallizing and electroplating on plastic and metal.  Recent innovations include glass metallizing in transparent and specialty finishes. Put our capabilities to the test in developing a finish or meeting an existing requirement by contacting our company.

 

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PVT Plasma und Vakuum Technik GmbH
www.pvtvacuum.de

PVT Plasma und Vakuum Technik GmbH was established in 1985 to provide thin-film coating technology, equipment, and coating services for the cutting tool industry. During the last several decades, PVT has grown to be leading manufacturers of: industrial PVD coating equipment, characterized by user friendliness, excellent reproducibility, industrial reliability, and efficiency; R&D vacuum coating systems; arc evaporation and magnetron sputtering systems; and vacuum metallizers for the automotive industry for the surface-like-chrome (SLC) process. Today, PVT with its highly trained and skilled technical staff, is active in the following areas: design, engineering, and manufacturing of PVD vacuum coating systems; process development by arc evaporation and magnetron sputtering; turn-key project engineering, including pretreatment, cleaning, coating, quality control, facility lay-out etc.; retrofit and upgrade of existing systems, which involves process, components, software, and complete system rebuild; coating services for hard wear-resistant and decorative coatings, such as TiN, Ti(C,N), TiAlN, CrN, ZrN, TiZrN, and many others for various industries; and R&D projects, such as its successful high-rate evaporation process, low-temperature deposition, and replacement for electroplated chrome. PVT LLC located in Chicago, IL, is PVT’s U.S. subsidiary serving North American customers. Through PVT’s exclusive partnerships with Swiss-Plas.com and New-Plas.com, PVT has successfully developed new advanced coating processes and equipment with unprecedented performance.

 

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R. D. Mathis Company
www.rdmathis.com

The R. D. Mathis Company specializes in the manufacture of high-vacuum evaporation sources for the thin film industry. We offer a comprehensive selection of tungsten, molybdenum, and tantalum sources through our catalog as well as custom fabrication to meet your specific needs. If your thin film coating operation requires a filament, basket, boat, crucible, baffled box, or alumina coated source, check the extensive selection in our catalog or contact us to discuss your unique coating requirements and we’ll help develop the source that is right for you. We also offer low-voltage, high-current AC power supplies, power cabling, and gas purification equipment to compliment your physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. Our flexible tooling and highly skilled work force allow us to produce unique one-of-a-kind sources as well as high-volume production quantities with equal ease. All of our refractory materials are high purity, high quality, and are processed using specific R. D. Mathis Company requirements. Every source we produce is of the highest quality in the industry and represents value, innovation, reliability, and integrity—the cornerstones of our business philosophy. Along with every source comes our commitment to provide you with the best service possible. Our staff stands ready to provide you with engineering consultation to help determine the right source for you at the best value to make your coating process a success.

 

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RF VII Inc.
www.rfvii

We manufacture RF Generators, Auto Tuners, and all related RF accessories. Offering RF Power of 100-3500 watts with crystal controlled frequencies of 1 - 40.68 Mhz. We service and supply parts for existing RF generators both SS and Power Tube type. We offer consulting on all types RF system applications.

 

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Reliable Corporation
www.reliablecorp.com

Reliable Corporation, based in Connecticut, manufactures precious metal evaporation materials and sputtering targets for thin film deposition. Reliable focuses on silver, gold, platinum, and palladium. Products serve a broad set of applications including large area coatings, semiconductor, electronics, medical product coatings, aerospace, LED, and wearable technologies. Reliable's reputation for performance, quality, price, delivery, and flexibility is unmatched by large competitors in the industry. Our name is our promise.

Reliable Corporation is an ISO 9001:2015 registered firm.

 

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robeko GmbH & Co. KG
www.robeko.de

robeko provides components, materials and technology for vacuum based processes such as PVD, PECVD, ion implantation and surface activation. Based in southwest Germany robeko manufactures coating materials such as Chromium, Zirconium, Aluminium, Silicon and Indium sputtering targets for its customers in automotive, glass, photovoltaics and precision optics.

Our trading department focuses on the technical sales of state of the art hardware components such as rotatable sputter magnetrons, process controllers, microwave equipment and ion implantation sources and processes.

Typical application of the PVD products are:

• - metallization of plastics
• - coloured coatings on plastics
• - surface activation of flexible substrates
• - mirror production
• - applications of microwave technology:
  • Foam drying
  • Ceramic drying
  • Rubber seals vulcanization
  • Windshield coating
  • Bonding of composite composites
  • Polymerization of composites

 

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Semicore Equipment Inc
www.semicore.com

Silicon Valley based Semicore Equipment, Inc. is a manufacturer and supplier of thin film PVD systems as well as custom application equipment solutions used in many industries since 1996. From small R&D groups and academia, to large scale, high volume automated production environments, Semicore has the expertise and experience to provide the solution. With a primary focus on automated sputtering and evaporation systems, Semicore offers many standard models to choose from. If what you need is not standard, we will custom design the right configuration and build it as if it is. All Semicore equipment is backed by fully customizable warranties and service contracts as desired.

There is more… much more: inline pass-by sputter, filament evaporation, large parts, dual-sided sputter, electron beam evaporation, multi-process cluster systems, batch sputter, ion beam assisted deposition, SEMI cassette, confocal sputter, and small parts. Advancing innovation for your products requires advanced and innovative tools too. That's what Semicore makes.

 

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Sierra Applied Sciences, Inc.
www.sierraapplied.com

Sierra Applied Sciences, was founded over 30 years ago by our current CEO/CTO, Barry Manley. Today the company is the world leader for magnetron sputtering technology for all deposition applications. Sierra Applied's cathodes offer the highest target utilization available in the industry today. All these attributes, along with Sierra Applied's pre-purchase performance & best price guarantee, makes it easy to buy. Simply put, Sierra Applied is the only name for magnetron cathode technology!

 

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Singulus Technologies AG
www.singulus.de

Singulus has delivered in excess of 8000 vacuum sputtering machines worldwide over the past 20 years. The machines range from standard sputtering systems to ultra-high vacuum deposition machines applying extremely thin layers with capabilities down to 0.2 nm. Singulus Technologies offers processes and equipment for coating technology (PVD sputtering, evaporation, PECVD, CVD). A common trait of all processes is the basic principle of efficient, low-resource production technology.

 

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Soleras Advanced Coatings
www.soleras.com

Soleras Advanced Coatings offers reliable rotatable sputter hardware and a broad portfolio of sputter targets made via different production methods (cast, thermal spray, HIPed, sleeved & bonded) in order to find the right solution for every customer; whether active in large area glass coating, flat panel display, optical coatings, photovoltaics, electrochromic, tribological or decorative coatings, we have the right answer for you. Our customers can benefit from our broad experience in rotatable and planar magnetron sputtering.

Soleras Advanced Coatings has production facilities in Maine and Wisconsin (US), Belgium (EU) and JiangYin (China) and maintenance centers and excellent sales and customer service teams around the world.

Soleras Advanced Coatings’ customized total solutions for sputtering consist of:

• Rotatable sputter targets
• Planar sputter targets and bonding
• Complete rotatable sputter magnetron solutions:
    - Cathodes, end blocks, Magnet bars, including former Applied Materials' product lines
    - Sputter electronics (power supplies, inverters, arc suppressors)
    - Gas distribution systems
    - Automation and control systems

All these components can be customized and integrated in each existing or new coating line. The wide portfolio of high quality rotatable targets is produced in high volumes, in all dimensions and with all existing fixations.

For more information, please visit our website www.soleras.com.

 

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Spartek, Inc.
www.spartekinc.com

At Spartek, Inc., we have a strong, 50+ year history in the field of vacuum plating and metallization. We are a leading authority in the application of tints and colors to vacuum plating, and we have the capacity to handle complex part geometries efficiently and affordably.

Inside our offline batch plating department, we have six vacuum chambers along with five hand spray booths and 2 flow coaters. With our operational flexibility, we can manage small specialty orders as well as high volume production runs of up to 25 million units. We maintain tight control over quality at all stages of production to ensure consistent results which meet the highest standards of excellence.

Our success as a manufacturer is based on a culture of quality and a continual investment in developing the newest technologies and manufacturing processes. We are proud to introduce our Inline Vacuum Metallizers and Coating Lines, featuring industry leading PVD sputtering technology. These two systems represent the cutting edge of inline metallization. With the use of automation these lines have the capability to produce 120 million parts annually without any manual handling from start to finish. It utilizes a process which is inherently efficient, creating minimal scrap rates that far exceed traditional offline batch metallizing processes. This allows our Inline Vacuum Metallizing department to deliver superior cost reductions while maintaining the highest quality standards.

 

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Sputtering Components, Inc.
www.sputteringcomponents.com

Sputtering Components (SCI) is a leading provider of Rotary Sputtering Cathodes and related components. SCI cathodes offer a highly reliable and user friendly design, the highest power rating available, and are the most affordable to buy and own. SCI can provide the components or turnkey solutions to meet your requirements.

 

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Sumitomo (SHI) Cryogenics of America
www.shicryogenics.com

In February 2002, the Cryogenics Division of Sumitomo Heavy Industries acquired APD Cryogenics forming SHI Cryogenics Group. SHI Cryogenics Group is a world class manufacturer of cryopumps. Our cryopumps are the market leader in the vacuum coating industry. Our Marathon^® CP cryopumps are available in a variety of sizes and configurations, each of which is ideally designed to handle the diverse and demanding requirements for a broad field of vacuum and deposition technologies. The pumping performance of the Marathon CP Cryopumps is unsurpassed in the marketplace. Our industry-leading crossover pressure and pumping speeds enable the user to achieve base pressure in the fastest time. SHI Cryogenics Group’s products can significantly reduce costs, improve cycle times and boost productivity for your optical coating application. For OEM customers, our strength lies in our ability to support our customer base through a worldwide sales and service center network. For more information, visit our website at www.shicryogenics.com.

 

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Super Conductor Materials, Inc.
www.scm-inc.com

Since 1987, Super Conductor Materials, Inc. [SCM] has been a leader in the manufacturing of Thin Film and PVD materials. SCM specializes in producing Sputtering Targets, Evaporation Material, Crucible Liners, E-Beam Gun Replacement Parts, Ion Implantor Source Replacement Parts, and a variety of Backing plates. We also provide multiple Bonding and Refining services.

For over 30 years, SCM has successfully manufactured Hi-Tech Thin Film materials and components that are used in the production of Semiconductors, Solar Materials, Electronic Instruments and Optical Instruments. SCM provides a complete CNC machine shop that allows them to offer various on-site services, such as, Hot Press, Vacuum Hot Press and Vacuum Melting services. In addition, SCM offers the Reclaiming of many materials.

Coupled with our reassurance policies, SCM continuously strives to increase production of high quality products specified to our customer's needs.

Our Customer Service team and Engineers have over a combined 50 years of experience and will work with you to provide the highest quality of customer care and production that all our customers have received for 32 years.

Contact us as sales@scm-inc.com.

 

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Synergy Systems Corp.
www.synsysco.com

SynSysCo is the manufacturer of Omni™ Helium Compressors which integrate Sumitomo Cryopumps with other cryopump systems to provide OEM and End User new possibilities in system performance, value and support. Omni™ Helium Compressors are excellent replacement units for legacy helium compressors in coating, 200mm Semiconductor and a variety of other Industrial and R&D applications.

In addition to its line of Omni™ Compressors and SDS dry industrial screw pumps, SynSysCo is also the North American Distributor for Sumitomo Marathon™ Cryopumps and Compressors, and Anest Iwata dry scroll pumps and dry air compressors, and a US Distributor for Kashiyama Dry Pumps and for Scroll Labs Miniature Dry Scroll pumps. We service and support all the products we sell from our facilities in Montrose, Colorado.

 

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Telemark
www.telemark.com

Telemark is a privately held, California corporation with a focus on providing value and service to our customers. We are a leading supplier of components for evaporation systems, including water vapor cryotraps, electron beam guns, E-beam power supplies, optical monitors, and other related accessories. The E-beam products were developed in 1986 and transferred to the current ownership in 1990. Telemark’s products include the widest available range of E-beam sources, including a new 15-kW rotary hearth source with crucibles to 6 x 100 cc, 12 x 40 cc, or a 1486 trough. A choice of switching or tetrode-tube regulated supplies ranging from 3 kW to 15 kW is offered. The TVP series water vapor cryotraps provide high-speed in-chamber water vapor trapping, as well as heat removal up to 3.5 kW. Instrumentation offered includes quartz crystal deposition controllers, a unique and affordable in situ optical spectrophotometer that provides optical thickness, physical thickness, and color measurement capability, as well as plasma diagnostics/endpoint.

 

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Toray Plastics (America), Inc.
www.toraytpa.com

Toray Plastics (America), Inc. (TPA), located in North Kingston, RI, is an affiliate of Toray Industries, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of synthetic fibers and textiles. With over 200 subsidiaries in 19 countries around the world, Toray Industries generates close to U.S. $10 billion in sales worldwide, and offers a vast array of innovative products from textiles to biotechnology, medicine to specialty fibers, and plastics to microelectronics. Within Toray Industries, TPA has grown into one of the world’s leading developers of oriented polypropylene (OPP) and polyester (PET) film products and technology. Used in everything from food packaging and capacitors to a broad range of solar control and graphic media, our products have global impact and unlimited potential. TPA’s way of innovative thinking is appreciated through numerous awards from companies and societies like the American Institute of Baking (AIB), Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coating and Laminators (AIMCAL), Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Frito Lay, and DuPont. TPA’s metallized capacitor film is awarded for its outstanding quality, which reflects the high standards applied to all of Toray’s products. TPA was the first to add large-scale, in-house metallization, and with four wide web metallizers (including the world’s largest system with 4-m web width) has the largest metallizing capacity in North America. Toray Plastics (America), Inc., creates a world of possibilities when it comes to satisfy your needs in OPP and PET films.

 

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TRUMPF Huettinger Electronic, Inc.
www.huettinger.com

TRUMPF HUETTINGER Electronics and their parent company, HUETTINGER Elektronik GmbH & Co KG, are manufacturers of power supplies and generators for a variety of plasma sputtering, vacuum coating and induction heating applications. The Company's products cover the frequency range from DC to 13.56 MHz with output powers up to 500kW. Of particular interest to vacuum coaters is the Company's line of DC and medium frequency power supplies for magnetron sputtering. With outputs of up to 250kW, these products provide a very cost effective means of coating large surface areas with insulating thin films by reactive sputtering. The Company's World Headquarters are located in Freiburg, Germany. This facility houses all major functional departments including research and development, engineering, production, sales and service. TRUMPF HUETTINGER Electronic, Inc., located in Farmington, Connecticut, is the Company's US headquarters and provides sales, service and applications support for all of North America. Throughout the world, TRUMPF HUETTINGER maintains a network of sales and service facilities to provide customers with support wherever equipment may be purchased or installed. TRUMPF HUETTINGER is a part of the TRUMPF Group, a group of international companies manufacturing medical equipment, electronics, laser machine tools, flexible manufacturing cells and related products. In 2006, TRUMPF had over 6400 employees world wide and reported gross sales of US$ 2 billion.

 

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UC Components, Inc.
www.uccomponents.com

UC Components Inc. manufactures fasteners and value-added Viton® seals for vacuum and other critical applications. Established in 1974, UC Components has been serving the semiconductor, memory, R&D, biomedical, aerospace, defense, and energy industries with exceptional quality and service for over 40 years.

Home of RediVac® Vented, Non-Vented, Coated, Plated, Electro-Polished, and Vacuum Baked Fasteners and RediVac® Cleaned and Vacuum Baked O-Rings for vacuum applications, pump-down speed and performance are the primary benefits of our product portfolio.

The RediVac® family of products significantly improve high vacuum system performance through the elimination of virtual leaks, reduced contamination and out-gassing, resulting in improved pump- down times.

Stocking stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and nickel alloys with a variety of coatings and platings including WS2, MoS2, Ag, and Ni, in both Metric and Inch standards, UC Components has the right fastener for your critical application needs.

The RediVac® Cleaned and/or Vacuum Baked O-ring line is the industry's most cost effective method for improved fluorocarbon seal performance with regard to water content. Reduce the outgassing and surface particulate and watch your system pump-down in record time. The RediVac® O-ring & Seal lines are available both precision cleaned and vacuum baked in metric, inch, and custom sizes.

Contact UC Components for your own RediVac© Fastener & O-Ring catalog or visit us on-line at www.uccomponents.com. All major credit cards accepted for on-line ordering!

 

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VacuCoat Technologies, Inc.
www.vacucoat.com

VacuCoat’s founders and management team come from the Vacumet family of companies (i.e., Vacumet Finishing, Richcraft Designs, and Richcraft Industries). Specializing in the vacuum metallizing of plastic components, VacuCoat is developing a series of unique processes to increase quality and reduce costs. Areas of specialization include vacuum metallizing of functional and decorative finishes, in-chamber topcoat, flow and spray coatings, and prototype and production volume capabilities.

 

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Vacuum Engineering & Materials Co., Inc.
www.vem-co.com

Vacuum Engineering & Materials Co., Inc. is your “Full-Service Manufacturer and Supplier” of High-Purity PVD Materials for all your Thin-Film needs. Key products are sputtering targets and evaporation materials — for Semiconductor, Photovoltaic, III-V Technology, Defense, Precision Optics, Lasers, Microwave, and industrial applications. Other products and services include backing plates, precious metals reclaim, crucible liners and in-house target bonding. Please visit our website at www.vem-co.com or contact us at info@vem-co.com. ISO 9001: 2008 Registered

 

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Vacuum Technology & Coating
www.vtcmag.com

VT&C is the only monthly magazine in the world devoted exclusively to vacuum technology and processing. VT&C spans virtually every industry and every product group in the modern world of technology. Some of the industries included are automotive, space and aviation, semiconductor, architectural glass, decorative coatings, data storage, medical, lighting, home entertainment, optics and fiber optics, telecommunications and military.

The magazine is a blend of a high tech scientific journal and a down-to-earth practical trade magazine for the engineering and scientific community. Reaching around 30,000 subscribers for the print magazine and over 100,000 digitally, VT&C penetrates 3,100 industrial facilities which use vacuum technology in their work, as well as every major national laboratory, government laboratory, and university faculty group.

 

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VAT, Inc.
www.vatvalve.com

"VAT - More than Vacuum Valves"

Over the past fifty years VAT developed a reputation as a worldwide leader in vacuum valve technology.

In addition to vacuum valves, VAT also offers forward integrated modules, custom engineered edge welded bellows solutions and VAT Global Services for repair, upgrades and spare parts programs.

VAT MODULES
VAT's custom engineered integrated module solutions simplify our customers system and supply chain. VAT modules integrate valves, pumping lines and other components to reduce footprint, reduce sealing lines and optimize performance. All VAT modules arrive at our customers tested and ready for installation.

VAT CUSTOM ENGINEERED EDGE WELDED BELLOWS
VAT offers custom engineered edge welded bellows solutions. VAT Bellows adhere to the highest quality and cleanliness standards of the most demanding applications. Our highly automated bellows stamping and welding processes ensure stable production and ramp readiness.

VAT GLOBAL SERVICES
is your customer support solution provider for all Valve applications. VAT Global Services offers repair, upgrades and spare parts programs designed to improve system up time and productivity. With locations throughout the world VAT Global Services is available for you 24/7.

VAT's global team is comprised of application and design engineers, service technicians and customer-oriented support teams who offer comprehensive assistance and advice that address specific customer needs from concept-to-finish and everywhere in between.

For more information please visit www.vatvalve.com.

 

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Vergason Technology, Inc.
www.vergason.com

Vergason Technology, Inc. (VTI) is an industry leader in vacuum coating systems, services, and processes. Specializing in Sputtering, Thermal Evaporation and Cathodic Arc (CatArc^®) technology, VTI not only designs and builds industrial-class PVD equipment, we also operate a full service toll coating center, offering performance and decorative thin films on plastic, metal, and glass substrates.

VTI has developed many innovative coatings including SuperChrome^™ PVD Coating, a safe alternative for traditional chrome plating. With the look and feel of chrome, SuperChrome^™ does not contain the harmful, hexavalent (Cr +6) compounds. In addition, SuperChrome^™ does not require a top coat to interfere with the chrome finish. Not only does it look great, it has passed many of the rigorous automotive tests, including over 133 hours of the grueling Russian Mud test.

NexSteel^™ is a very popular decorative coating utilizing a thin layer of sputtering stainless steel over a textured molded part, to resemble brushed stainless steel.

BlackCat^™ Tactical Coating, is a permanently bonded PVD thin film coating designed for applications requiring a tough, non-reflective, durable black coating, offering optimal wear resistance and lubricity.

VTI's Vacuum Metallizing Equipment incorporates our patented CatArc^® cathodic arc and Press-Side^® technologies, today's industry standard.

Metallizing customers include automotive, lighting, display and EMI/RFI shielding applications. VTI wear coating services are utilized for tool, blade, punches and many medical applications.

Headquartered in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, we have US sales offices in Minnesota, Texas and international partners in Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan, China and India.

For more information, visit our website: www.vergason.com

 

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Viavi Solutions
www.viavisolutions.com

Viavi Solutions Optical Security and Performance Products (OSP) business segment (NASDAQ - VIAV), is the world's leading manufacturer of optical thin film coatings and components used to manage light. Viavi’s OSP business segment is a charter member of SVC. The OSP segment produces products that control and enhance light by altering its various wavelengths to achieve specific effects such as reflection, refraction, absorption, and transmission. OSP produces optical filters and optical coatings for a broad range of applications in the consumer electronics, automotive, government and healthcare markets. OSP also designs and manufactures thin film coatings on flexible substrates using high vacuum roll-to-roll processes. OSP supplies a wide range of high-performance optical products, including thin films for use in energy-conserving window films, pigments for use in anti-counterfeiting applications, technology for brand security, and light interference pigments and diffractive pigments for commercial applications.

 

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VON ARDENNE Germany
www.vonardenne.biz

Based on its core competencies, plasma and electron beam technologies, the VON ARDENNE group is a leading manufacturer of vacuum processing equipment with strong emphasis on customized solutions. VON ARDENNE develops, manufactures, and sells equipment worldwide for large area coatings using high-rate magnetron sputtering and EB evaporation. Key components are dual magnetrons for the high-rate deposition of dielectrics, VON ARDENNE type high-power EB guns, and unique components for on-line process control.

 

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