Understanding End Mill Coatings
The Purpose of Coatings
Extend Tool Life, Wear Resistance, minimize built up edge, Faster Speeds & Feeds, increase productivity.
The most important thing to understand about coating is that it’s NOT just about the picking the right coating selection (AlCrN, AlTiN, TiAlN, TiCN, TiB2, ZrN, etc). It’s equally important to pick the right process of applying the coating, along with pre and post treatments and coating thickness
We work directly with the Coaters to design the perfect chemistry, hardness, thickness and finish for optimum cutting performance in your application.
The purpose of coatings: Extend Tool Life, Wear Resistance, minimize built up edge, Faster Speeds & Feeds, increase productivity
Application Technology choices
• Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD): thin, better edge toughness, smoother
• Arc Evaporation (ARC)
• High-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) – ultra dense coatings
• Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD): thick, wear resistant – older technology still used in indexable tooling, but not round shank such as end mills
Just some of the chemical compositions
• Titanium Aluminum Nitride (TiAlN)
• Aluminium Titanium Nitride (AlTiN)
• Titanium Carbonitride (TiCN)
• Titanium Nitride (TiN)
• Aluminum Chromium Nitride (AlCrN)
• Titanium DiBoride (Tib2)
• Zirconium Nitride (ZrN)
• Diamond
• Aluminium Oxide (Al2O3)
Thickness • Finish • Pre and Post Treatments • Edge Honing
High Performance Coatings
TTX1 Coating for Titanium
TTX2 Coating for Titanium
XA Coating for Stainless and Hardened Steels
ALX Coating for Aluminum
Amorphous Diamond Coating
Aluminum Titanium Nitride (ALTiN)
Titanium Aluminum Nitride (TiALN)
Titanium Carbonitride (TiCN)
