Oerlikon

With our innovative products and applications we are represented in a broad range of industries and in all regions around the world:  

• Solar Energy and Clean Technologies: With our production facilities for thin film solar modules, Oerlikon leveraged this new advantageous technology to the mass market with a tremendous business potential. As the only supplier on the market, Oerlikon Solar can show customers, which are producing thin film silicon solar modules in an industrial manner. More than 2.4m modules have already been produced with Oerlikon equipment. The installed capacity of the customers of Oerlikon Solar, which are producing or are in the ramp-up process, adds up to nearly 500MW. Other areas of clean technologies of Oerlikon are for example transmission components for wind turbines or electric cars and vacuum pumps for the solar industry.
  
  
• Automotive: Oerlikon Coating is a premium partner for car manufactures and suppliers. Our objective is to improve the performance of engines and at the same reduce gas consumption. The latest diesel technology also wouldn’t work without our coating technology. Furthermore, Oerlikon provides lightning systems to the automotive industry. Oerlikon Graziano Drive Systems is a worldwide leading supplier of complete drive systems as well as gear systems and single components for transmissions. The product portfolio includes drive systems for high-performance cars, PTU (power transfer units), RDA (rear drive axles) and RDM (rear drive module) for AWD (all wheel drive); components, axles, transmissions for and agricultural vehicles, construction machines; planetary drives (torque hub(R) and gear components, and other special applications. The customers in this sector demand high product reliability and flexibility.
  
  
• IT Industry: In various aspects Oerlikon is a major supplier to the IT industry, enabling efficient production or the introduction of new chip technologies. Nearly all well-known IT and chip manufactures are counted among our customers.
  
  
• Textile Industry: The business units of Oerlikon Textile are the market leaders in virtually every technology area. With their innovations, they are continuously setting new standards for the global textile production. They provide comprehensive overall solutions in the sector of textile machinery and plant manufacture: From the plant design for the production of man-made and nonwoven fibres up to facilities for ring spinning, rotor spinning, winding, twisting or embroidery, they cover the entire value added chain in the textile sector.
  
  
• Machinery and Tool Manufacturing: Our coating solutions increase the productivity of cutting, forming and molding tools, and the performance of mechanical components. Oerlikon Balzers sets new industrial standards with PPDTM and P3eTM. Pulsed Plasma Diffusion (PPDTM) will replace the traditional hard chrome plating for medium and large punching and forming tools. With this new solution by-products such as hexavalent chromium, which is harmful to health and the environment, will be eliminated. The Pulse Enhanced Electron Emission (P3e^TM) technology is a breakthrough within the thin film processes. Installed on the latest coating equipment INNOVA, P3e^TM enables the deposition of advanced oxide-based coatings and therefore offers a completely new range of possibilities in the design and performance of cutting tools. All global leaders in tool manufacturing have opted for this innovative coating system.
  
  
• Process Industry: Coating, packaging, operating: vacuum technology plays a prominent role in the process industry. The more pretentious and the more technical the processes, the higher the requirements to the vacuum systems. Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum is a popular partner, where engineering know-how for individual solutions is challenged and not just solutions off the shelf.
  
  
• Advanced Nanotechnology: Oerlikon is even today in a very strong position in nanotechnology with thin film silicon solar moduls and thin film coating. With the realignment of the business unit Oerlikon Systems, Oerlikon will also take the lead in the next technology generation ("Advanced Nanotechnology"). Here fore, a new type of machinery the „SOLARIS" for the production of nanolayers, which was trimmed for highest throughput and most efficient production was successfully launched into the market in 2009.
  

• Research: Famous research centers around the globe, such as the CERN in Geneva or the Laboratory for Laser Energetic in the US, rely on vacuum solutions from Oerlikon. Our applications are key components in their experiments.