Get ahead of the competition

More productivity with BALINIT ALDURA

The high-performance capabilities of BALINIT® ALDURA Result: With BALINIT® ALDURA, it was possible to
are proven. This becomes clear in a comparison of the nearly double the tool life in almost every case. That
benchmark tools employing the same geometry from means a great boost in your productivity as well.
Japanese and European sources. In each case, the test
was performed using the coating with which the tool
was offered on the market against the tool coated with
BALINIT® ALDURA.
BALINIT ALDURA
Extremely durable
High-performance and reliable machining
Comparison with commercially available high-performance
coatings

of the hardest materials

Tool life [m] Tool Ball-nose cutter
Ø 10 mm
300
270 Workpiece Steel 1.2379
240 (AISI D2, SKD11)
210 HRC 60
180
Cutting data vc = 200 m/min
150
ft = 0.15 mm
120
ap = 0.3 mm
90 ae = 0.5 mm
60 VB = 0.1 mm
30 dry
0
Tool manu- Tool manu- Tool manu-
Source Oerlikon Balzers
facturer 1 facturer 2 facturer 3 cutting laboratory

Tool manufacturer’s coating

BALINIT® ALDURA

Benefit from the BALINIT ALDURA high-performance coating

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Headquarters Our worldwide coating centre

Oerlikon Balzers Coating AG network addresses are listed at:
Balzers Technology & Service Centre www.oerlikon.com/balzers
HQ026EN (1508)

Iramali 18
9496 Balzers
Liechtenstein
T +423 388 7500
F +423 388 5419
E info.balzers@oerlikon.com

Cutting Tools
BALINIT ALDURA Faster and more economical machining through
Get the hard facts for high-performance milling increased process reliability

One challenge in the area of tool and mould making is the developed explicitly for roughing and finishing hardened
Finishing in HRC 62 steel Milling in HRC 52 steel
machining of hardened steels of up to 65 HRC: The milling steels. It is especially attractive due to its dual-layer structure
cutters employed are subjected to enormous loads be- that is perfectly adapted for this demanding machining
cause the chips are compressed and broken at extreme process and makes your fabrication even more productive. Wear mark width [μm] after 66 min. Tool life [m]
levels of heat and force. The conditions are becoming more This is just one more reason to rely on Oerlikon Balzers, a + 80%
150 500
demanding all the time, especially at the cutting edge itself. world-wide technological leader in the field of hard coatings.
The BALINIT® ALDURA high-performance coating was 400

100
300
- 40%

Ideal coating properties provide you with advantages 50

200

100

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Optimized performance AlTiN BALINIT®

ALDURA
AlTiN BALINIT®
ALDURA

Tool Ball-nose cutter Ball-nose cutter

Dual layer coating structure optimized Maximized performance capacity in Ø 6 mm, Z = 2 Ø 10 mm, Z = 2
for hard machining cutting hard materials Workpiece Steel 1.3352 (~AISI T1, ~SKH2) Steel 1.2344 (AISI H13, SKD61)
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62 HRC ipsum dolor sit amet BALINIT
®
ALCRONA PRO
52 HRC

Immense tool stability Cutting data vf = 2,600 mm/min vc = 320 m/min

Base layer with first-class coating adhesion n = 10,000 U/min ft = 0.12 mm
(Damping function) Very high edge strength ap = 0.02 mm ap = 0.3 mm
ae = 0.02 mm ae = 0.3 mm
VBmax = 0.12 mm
Increased tool lifetimes MQL cooling dry

Reduction of tooling and set-up costs Source Zecha, Germany Oerlikon Balzers cutting laboratory
Functional layer with excellent oxidation
resistance, hot hardness and thermal Enables improved cutting data
insulation properties
Increased machine utilization and productivity
Heat dissipation via the chips, not the tool Drilling in hardened steel Milling with indexable inserts

Number of holes Tool life [m]

Improved chip transport
Optimized coating surface 800
+ 60%
100
+ 45%
Lower cutting forces
700 90
80
600
70
BALINIT ALDURA ®
500 60
More productivity and manufacturing reliability when machining 400 50

hardest materials 300

40
30
200
20
100 10
0 0
AlTiN BALINIT® AlTiN 1 AlTiN 2 BALINIT®

Application recommendations ALDURA ALDURA

Tool Carbide drill Ball-nose cutter

Ø 8.2 mm with indexable inserts
Complete machining of hardened and tempered steels Workpiece Connecting rod, steel 1.1520 Steel 1.2379 (AISI D2, SKD11)
(45 to 65 HRC) Lorem ipsum
(AISI 1070, dolor sit amet BALINIT
S70C) hardened
®
ALCRONA PRO
64 HRC

Cutting data vc = 70 m/min vc = 170 m/min

- Carbide milling cutters and modular milling cutters f = 0.24 mm/rev ft = 0.12 mm
ap = 0.2 mm
- Carbide indexable inserts
ae = 0.2 mm
- Carbide drills VB = 0.15 mm
dry dry

Source Automotive supplier, USA Oerlikon Balzers cutting laboratory