Have you ever wondered how airplanes, cars, oil and gas pipelines or medical devices are made? It's not just the materials they're composed of that's so important, but also the high-speed machining ...

VALENCIA, CA, UNITED STATES, February 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Advanced Coating Technologies (ACT), a Valencia-based provider of precision PVD and DLC coating ...

The problem being addressed by the U.S. Army was that wear and corrosion require the artillery personnel to replace chromium-coated spindles well before they reach their usable end-of-life. The ...

Typical physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings are 20 times thinner than a human hair, yet they can drastically improve performance, boost reliability, and extend service lives of tool and ...

PVD coatings are typically not applied to aluminum, because the temperature of the coating process is close to material’s melting point. Surface Solutions offers four PVD coatings for medical devices.

Industrial gas turbine (IGT) manufacturers and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) personnel are continually seeking new ways to improve the performance and longevity of critical components.