PLATIT AG developed the Pi411 G3, a flexible coating unit featuring an ARC unit with three rotating cathodes inside the door, modular upgrades via SPUTTER, PECVD, and OXI processes, and LACS technology for simultaneous ARC and SPUTTERING.

PLATIT AG is a Swiss company that manufactures and markets coating equipment for tools and machine components. It is one of the leaders in Physical Vapor Deposition coating technology. PLATIT AG is part of the family-owned BCI Blösch Group, an independent Swiss technology group. Headquartered in Selzach (Switzerland), PLATIT has its own service, support and sales offices in Europe, North America and Asia. These are complemented by a broad network of distributors and partners worldwide. PLATIT has installed over 550 coating systems and maintains close partnerships with its customers. The variety of tool geometries and applications requires manufacturers of coating equipment to offer a wide range of technical solutions to best fulfill customers’ needs. PLATIT offers numerous high-tech standard and custom coating solutions with modular machine designs, high flexibility and user-friendliness. Profound competencies in cathodic ARC, SPUTTER and HiPIMS technology allows PLATIT to integrate these technologies into hybrid processes that create solutions for different applications. PLATIT's open source philosophy allows customers to adapt coatings to their specific requirements and individual needs. With the highest coating performance in dedicated application fields, PLATIT customers can differentiate themselves from the market standard. In addition to coating units, PLATIT offers turnkey systems as part of its product portfolio. These include complete solutions for upstream and downstream steps, such as decoating, edge pre-treatment, cleaning, post-treatment and quality control, thus making PLATIT systems ideally suited for seamless integration into the tool manufacturing and regrinding process.