Oerlikon Balzers is the leading global supplier of PVD coatings and other surface technologies which decisively improve the performance and service lives of precision components as well as metalworking and plastics processing tools. These proprietary coatings developed by Oerlikon Balzers and marketed under the BALINIT® brand are extremely thin and very hard. They significantly reduce wear and friction. Oerlikon Balzers also develops coating processes, manufactures and markets coating systems and turnkey production lines, and offers contract coating services through its dynamically growing network of currently more than 90 coating centres in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.