Advanced Coating Service Technology

Platit π 80

Platit π80: The Technology Behind ACS

To provide you with the most reliable, best performing Cathodic Arc coatings available, ACS employs the Platit π80 - a groundbreaking coating unit featuring Platit's unique LARC® (Lateral Rotating Cathodes) patented process technology.

To learn more about the Platit π 80 click here.

Applied Technology

The equipment and expertise you'll find at ACS allows it to offer a wide variety of leading-edge coatings - both standard and breakthrough nano-structured composite coatings - for:

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  • Hot and cold work steel
  • High-speed steel
  • HSS, HSCO and M42 steel
  • Tungsten carbides
  • Other tool steels
  • Specialty metals

ACS applies its precision coatings to a broad range of pieces at a programmable thickness of 1-10µm. All batches display high coating uniformity, which ensures consistency, predictability and repeatability from job to job.

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Coatings from ACS extend the life and enhance the performance of a wide range of bits, tools, parts and components for numerous manufacturing and fabrication tasks:

  • Cutting - reduces abrasive, adhesive and crater wear on tools for wet, dry and high-speed machining, as well as ARC droplets and friction between tool and chip
  • Punching - reduces effects of friction on punches, molds and dies
  • Forming - reduces friction, wear, edge build-up and striation during extrusion, molding, deep drawing and coining, minimizing the need to re-polish functional surfaces
  • Injection molding - reduces wear and roughness while improving surface texture and "release" to permit shorter cycle times
  • Tribology - reduces abrasive wear for dry operations, which eliminates the need for environmentally damaging lubricants
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Every Coating Type

ACS processes a variety of standard, specialty and custom coatings to offer you a solution for every need - from routine production to cutting-edge applications.

For detailed information, please visit the Coating Properties and Coating Recommendations charts.

At ACS, we work with you to match the right coating to your job - whatever that job might be. You're assured of receiving the best solution to extend the life and enhance the performance of your parts, which will improve your operations and business profitability.