40 years of industrial value
400 operational DGK36” plants installed

Product with craftsmanship in Milan facility, the DGK36" vacuum treatment plant may be equipped with multiple process systems: metallization, sputtering, plasma and plasma deposition. In July 2008 we delivered 5 new DGK36", which will treat various components in Brazil, Mexico, Italy and China.

Kolzer introduces new functional coatings achievable with sputtering machines series 2008. The plants, which are currently provided with an already rich databases of available coatings, can now be equipped on request with the following processes:  PVD anti-reflex, PVD transparent hydrophobic and nonsticking, PVD solar thermal absorber_low emission, PVD transparent conductive ITO, PVD transparent scratchproof , PVD UV filter, PVD IR filter 

The results of the exposures to WOM to which we have submit our customers' components in the first equipment of the automotive field, have given positive results. The exposure to WOM (water-o-meter) contemplates the exposure of the pieces to cycles of radiation, rain, humidity to simulate the weather conditions. It lasted 2000 hours (the standard required by car specifications), the results were positive on all the substrates (plastic and metal) and have shown no alteration: total absence of bubbles, blistering, cracks of the film or loss of gloss.

Kolzer will attend at SVC 2008, the 51st International Exhibition and Annual Technical Conference staging Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago IL , from April 19 - 24, 2008, promising to the visitors a host of new technologies and solutions for enhancing their business competitiveness in the vacuum coating solutions. Kolzer is a longstanding European member of the American Society of Vacuum Coaters SVC.

The processes of chrome plating adopted by Kolzer machines, in addition to be at zero emission, use metallic chrome, therefore "zerovalent". This is organic chrome absolutely non-polluting. Thus it is still possible to chrome for aesthetic/functional purposes, since the chrome zerovalent used by Kolzer plant, responds in full the new requirements of RoHS and ELV directives.

Completed the extension works of Kolzer production site started in Spring 2007; doubled the area intended for production, assembly and testing of sputtering plants of third generation.
Kolzer facility in Cologno Monzese, Milan, produces sputtering plants for deposition in high vacuum, high vacuum metallization plants and vacuum plasma plants. The systems are mainly exported to 30 different countries.

Positively tested a DGK63”, the biggest 3D sputtering plant in Europe. 2500 mm of length with 4 magnetrons and sputtering targets long 1800mm for the multilayer depositing on solar panels. We helped thousands of companies renew their ecological ethos, and at the same time generate immediate profits giving their products a new hi-tech appearance. Without the contribution of our sputtering process, it wouldn’t be possible to create the new generation of photovoltaic cells.

The biggest technological research centre in Scandinavia with their 900 engineers and scientists, the DTI Danish Teknological Institute located in Taastrup, Copenaghen-Denmark, started up a new Kolzer plant for PECVD process. The system will be involved in R&D and small scale production of components with the new flexible transparent barrier coating, silicon based, with a DGK24” equipped for PECVD process.

Altay Scientific is a leading company in the global market for science education. Kolzer provided them with a DGK36” sputtering plant equipped with plasma cleaning, in order to replace the galvanic process used to produce their plastic and metal component, to be installed in their factory based in China. The DGK36” is the most sold Kolzer machine, with its coating chamber diameter of 1000mm.

Medys SpA, part of Imper Group, has been working in the electro-medical industry for about one hundred years, during which they have also developed industrial activities focused on the high-quality surface treatments field. In this respect they are now ready for the start up of a new Kolzer sputtering plant for chromium plating of plastic parts; flanked by a UV painting line to prepare the parts before the sputtering coating, the new line will replace the actual galvanic process, producing for the Italian company BTicino, part of LEGRAND Group.

Kolzer Vacuum Coating Technologies, reputable and well-know manufacturer of vacuum technologies sign a new agreement with the Polytechnic of Turin for the development of industrial applications with PECVD technology. Within this year Kolzer will install a new plant in the Polytechnic of Turin, Alessandria department, a DGK36"PECVD plant for R&D and industrial investigation of future application with this process, for companies located in North Italy.

Corriere della Sera, the most important Italian newspaper, reports that a panel of ten experts nominated for “Corriere Economy” the more innovative entrepreneurs:
“Kolzer is among the first companies for its prominent role in the innovation continuity and for its progress in research and development in the Italian market; it is the typical example of the challenges to face in the 21St Century..."

After winning a notice of competition in the 70’s, Kolzer won again this year and manufactured a DGK24” plant for vacuum cadmium plating of helicopter components for AGUSTA WESTLAND – well-known worldwide manufacturer of helicopters.

Commissioned by the EU, the Kolzer staff developed a new co-evaporation system for latent fingerprints on a DGK24” for the Turkish criminal police, in order to note latent fingerprints on evidence found on crime scenes. Delivered and already up and running in order to Strengthen the Police Forensic Capacity.