Ask two suppliers to quote the same batch of mold inserts and the second price can land 30 to 50 percent higher before anyone compares cathodes or power supplies. Open both quotations and the differ...

An uncoated carbide end mill cutting 42CrMo4 die steel typically reaches its wear limit after 20 to 30 minutes. Run the same tool through a TiAlN cycle in a PVD hard coating machine and flank wear u...

Vacuum Coating Technology Guide - PVD vs CVD Choosing between PVD and CVD usually comes down to one number before any coating datasheet is opened: process temperature. A PVD line deposits TiAlN at 2...

A plant that coats 30,000 carbide inserts a month cannot reach that volume on an evaporation line, and an optics workshop that needs 200 nm of aluminum on 1,000 lenses per batch should not be buying...

Two quotations for the same mid-size magnetron sputtering tool used in physical vapor deposition (PVD) coating can differ by more than $20,000, and the gap usually sits in the pump package. One supp...