Under its trade name Balinit, the companysuppliescoatings and coating systems for sintered hardmetal inserts, aswellastoolsformetalandplastics machining and a variety of sintered precision components,significantly improving performance and service life. Oerlikon Balzers is a businessunitoftheSwissOerlikonGroupWorldwide, oneofthe world’s mostsuccessfulhigh-tech industrial technology firms focusingonmachineryandplantengineering.“We’re very excited about it,” said Mark Kirsch, production manager for the Components Group, who cited several new contracts for coating services for automotive components as the reason behind the growth. Many of these were likely to be sintered steel parts.
In addition to adding new processing equipment, support services and physical facilities, the Rock Hill coating centre will be moving from two to three-shift operation by the end of 2012.
