With BALINIT and BALITHERM,

efficiency and productivity

are in top form
Optimal wear protection solutions for
your punching and forming tools

Metal Forming
 Upgrade your tools to a new quality level –
with BALINIT and BALITHERM
In production, stamping and forming tools are exposed to surface solutions, we can offer you significant advantages
extreme forces and, consequently, subject to wear. You can with our coating solutions and diffusion processes that will
minimise the wear of your tools, however, with BALINIT® boost the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and ecological
hard coatings and BALITHERM® plasma-diffusion treatment soundness of your applications.
by Oerlikon Balzers. As a global technology leader in

Extreme coating Low coefficient of High wear resistance, Improved surface

hardness friction, high thermal very good sliding and cut quality
stability properties

Protection against Prevention of adhesive wear Improved forming No micro-welding,

abrasive wear scoring, and rough
No cold welding Greater dimensional sheared edges
No dimensional changes accuracy across longer
of functional surfaces No heat checking runs Better dimensional
stability despite tighter
Reduced lubricant Fewer drawing passes manufacturing tolerances
consumption

Lower tool costs Improved ecological Reduced production Perceptibly less

due to extended footprint due to envi- costs due to less aftermachining due
service life ronmentally friendly machine downtime to higher workpiece
low-metered lubricant and higher cycle quality
use frequencies

BALINIT® and BALITHERM® for punching and forming: Greater productivity,

efficiency, and process reliability with an optimised ecobalance
Cover picture: Feintool Technologie AG Lyss / CH
Save up to
86% of costs
in production

When forming stainless steel, untreated tools quickly ALCRONA PRO and BALINIT® C, you can extend the life
approach their limits. The series production of heat shields, of the forming tool as much as tenfold, which saves up to
for instance, will stop at about 2000 produced parts due 86% of costs.
to cracks in the tool surface. However, with BALINIT®

Production of Untreated BALINIT® ALCRONA PRO

Heat shields BALINIT® C

Tool costs (EUR) 10,000 11,080

Tool life (Number of formed parts) 2,000 20,000
Tool cost per
produced part (EUR)
5.00 0.55

Production per minute (No. of parts per min.) 20 20

Production costs per minute (EUR/min.) 4 4
Production costs per part
(EUR)
0.20 0.20

Costs of machinery downtime 0.02 0.00

Subsequent machining costs (EUR) 0.02 0.00

Extra cost per part

(EUR)
0.04 0.00

Total production costs

per part (EUR) 5.24 0.75
The bars merely illustrate the correlations among the individual cost
factors and do not relate directly to the bottom-line sum. 86%
cost s
avings
Rely on outstanding performance

BALINIT® FORMERA performance in 4mm high strength drawing

application

No. of produced parts Tool Draw operation

+ 680%
seat bracket
400,000
Workpiece 4 mm HSLA

300,000 Process type 400t progressive press

30mm draw depth

200,000 Challenge High wear in the draw

die due to the use of
4 mm HLSA material
100,000
Solution - 6 fold increase in
BALINIT® tool life
0 FORMERA - production process
Competitor BALINIT® stabilised
solutions FORMERA

BALINIT® ALCRONA PRO: Fine blanking of safety parts

Tool Punch and die
Tool life (millions of parts)

7 Workpiece Latch part for seat belts,

6.300.000
6,300,000 Steel 1.7225
6 (42 CrMo4)
5 Challenge Untreated: Microwelds,
scoring, rough cut sur-
4
faces; requires much
3 more frequent regrinding
of the tool
2
Solution - More than 50-fold
1 BALINIT® increase of tool life
120,000
120.000
0
ALCRONA - Perceptibly better
PRO surface and cut quality
Uncoated BALINIT®
ALCRONA PRO - Clearly lower need for
aftermachining

BALINIT® LUMENA: Deep drawing of tubes

Tool Deep drawing tool
No. of produced parts
DIN 1.2379 (~AISI D2)
30,000 61 HRC

25,000
Workpiece Tubes
DIN 1.4401 (~AISI 316)
20,000 thickness 1.5 - 1.75 mm

Challenge Untreated:
15,000
High abrasive wear,
10,000
cold welding,
short tool lifetime
2,000
Solution - 10-fold increase
BALINIT® in parts production
0
LUMENA - clear reduction
CrN BALINIT® LUMENA
of cold welding
Coating properties at a glance

BALINIT® BALINIT® BALINIT® BALINIT® BALINIT® BALINIT® BALINIT® BALINIT® BALINIT®

ALCRONA B C D FORMERA FORMERA FUTURA LUMENA TRITON
PRO PLUS NANO

AlCrN TiCN a-C:H:Me CrN CrAIN CrTiN TiAlN TiAlN a-C:H

Coating material
based (WC/C) based based

Coating hardness
36 +/- 3 7 +/- 3 12 - 15 18 +/- 3 28 +/- 2 42 +/- 2 33 +/- 3 33 +/- 3 ~15 - 25
HIT [GPa]

Coefficient of friction (dry)

0.35 0.4 0.1 - 0.2 ~ 0.5 0.35 0.35 0.3 - 0.35 0.3 - 0.35 0.1 - 0.2
vs. steel

Typical coating
2-6 2-4 1-4 2-4 6 - 12 6 - 12 3-4 8 - 12 1-3
thickness [µm]

Intrinsic stress [GPa] -3 +/- 1 -3 +/- 1 -2 +/- 0.5 -2 +/- 0.5 -2 +/- 1 -2 +/- 1

Max. service temp. (°C) 1,100 400 300 700 900+ 900+ 900 900 300

Coating temp. (°C) < 500 450 < 250 200 - 450 480 450 200 - 450 450 < 250

bright grey blue-grey anthracite silver-grey silver-light silver-light violet-grey violet-grey black
Coating colour
grey grey

Coating structure mono layer multi layer nano layers mono layer nano layer multi layer mono layer mono layer mono layer

Available as
X
STAR version*

Available in BALINIT®
X X X X X X X X X
DUPLEX Series**

Available in BALINIT®
X X X X X X X X
ADVANCED Series***

*The STAR version delivers better load-bearing **The DUPLEX Series includes a nitriding process *** T
 he ADVANCED Series includes a one step in
capabilities. with the possibility of higher nitriding depths. process diffusion.

All given data are approximate values, they depend on application, environment and test condition.

Application recommendations

FORMING TRIMMING

Drawing
Cold / Hot
Flanging Hot Forming Cast Iron Tooling Piercing / Trimming Fine blanking
Forging
Punching

Non-alloyed steel FN / LU LU Du / AP Du Mod AP Du* PPD FN / AP B / AP

Steel < 250 Mpa LU Ad Mod AP Du* PPD B / AP B / AP

Steel < 400 Mpa LU Du / FO Mod AP Du* PPD FN / AP Ad FN / AP

Steel > 400 Mpa FO Mod AP Du* PPD FN / AP Ad FN / AP

Aluminium* T Star / HC AP Du Δ PPD T / HC T / HC

Stainless steels* FO / AP FO / AP Du PPD B / AP B / AP

Titanium alloys LU LU Du PPD FN FN

Brass, bronze* FN / AP AP Du PPD FN / AP FN / AP

Copper D / T Star AP Du PPD D / AP D / AP

*An additonal layer of BALINIT® C Ad ADVANCED FO BALINIT® FORMERA T BALINIT® TRITON

can aid with release and sticking AP BALINIT® ALCRONA PRO HC BALINIT® HARD CARBON T Star BALINIT® TRITON STAR
of these materials. D BALINIT® D LU BALINIT® LUMENA Δ In Testing
Du DUPLEX PPD BALITHERM® PPD
The decisive advantage for more efficiency:
BALITHERM PPD for large stamping dies
Component
arrival Blasting of
painted tools

Repainting –
if required
Quality control

Initial
polishing
Final
quality
control
BALITHERM®
BALITHERM®
PPDPPD
(incl. cleaning)
Final
polishing

Our future-oriented plasma-based diffusion process PPD

(Pulsed-Plasma Diffusion) is applied on our INAURA systems.
They provide a loading capacity of 10 x 3 metres and
40 tonnes. The fully automated process ensures a stable
and controlled wear-protection coating procedure.
The combination of hydrogen, nitrogen and electricity
means that INAURA operates entirely without the use
of poisonous gases and chemicals.

Benefit from optimised wear-protection solutions

for punching and forming tools
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