Oerlikon Balzers has introduced BALINIT MOLDENA for injection moulding and extrusion of filled polymers provides superior abrasion and corrosion resistance for applications with glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRPs) and fully recycled materials.

Balzers, Liechtenstein, 7 July 2022 – Oerlikon Balzers, a world leading Oerlikon brand that provides advanced surface solutions, has introduced BALINIT MOLDENA, a new coating for injection moulding and extrusion of filled polymers. Its superior abrasive and corrosion resistance makes it perfect for applications with glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRPs) and fully recycled materials while ensuring a longer mould service life and delivering high-quality products.

In line with the Oerlikon’s sustainability strategy, BALINIT MOLDENA is the optimum solution for processing new and recyclable plastics in order to improve energy efficiency and conserve resources. The coating also increases mould service life, while customers benefit from a stable production process and high-quality products.

The newly developed coating from the Oerlikon Balzers brand is just 7 µm thin and exceeds the hardness of almost all previous coatings for processing plastics. Its outstanding abrasion and corrosion properties make BALINIT MOLDENA the perfect coating for injection moulding and extrusion of abrasive materials such as GFRPs, and it is also ideal for injection moulding of corrosive materials such as fully recycled materials or those with a high flame retardant content. 

BALINIT MOLDENA has already proved effective in various customer tests, showing less wear than all conventional abrasion-resistant coatings and significantly improving the corrosion resistance in neutral salt spray testing. When a standard coating was applied to injection moulds used to process unsaturated polyester (40%), the coating peeled off after 40,000 shots. With the new coating from Oerlikon Balzers, the same high-quality products continued to be delivered even after 200,000 shots. 

Andreas Reiter, Head of Product Line Tools, says: “Our customers are increasingly using lighter and recycled plastics in order to improve energy efficiency and conserve resources. With BALINIT MOLDENA, we have succeeded in enhancing our existing solutions for processing plastics. We are delighted that we can offer our customers the optimum solution that enables a stable process and increases the service life of their polymer production lines.” 

Oerlikon Balzers’ new BALINIT MOLDENA for injection moulding and extrusion of filled polymers provides superior abrasion and corrosion resistance for applications with glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRPs) and fully recycled materials while ensuring a longer mould service life and delivering high-quality products.

For further information please contact:

Petra Ammann
Head of Marketing Communications Balzers
T +423 388 7500
[email protected]
www.oerlikon.com/balzers

About Oerlikon

Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a global innovation powerhouse for surface engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacturing. The Group’s solutions and comprehensive services, together with its advanced materials, improve and maximise the performance, functionality, design and sustainability of its customers’ products and manufacturing processes in key industries. Having developed pioneering technology for decades, everything Oerlikon does is guided by its passion to help its customers achieve their goals and to foster a sustainable world. The Group is headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, and operates its business in two divisions: Surface Solutions and Polymer Processing Solutions. It has a global footprint of more than 11 800 employees at 207 locations in 38 countries. In 2021, Oerlikon generated CHF 2.6 billion in sales and invested CHF 105 million in R&D.

About the Oerlikon Balzers Brand

Oerlikon Balzers is one of the world’s leading brands for surface technologies that significantly improve the performance and durability of precision components as well as tools for the metal and plastics processing industries. Extremely thin and exceptionally hard coatings, marketed under the BALINIT and BALIQ product names, reduce friction and wear. The BALITHERM product name opens up a broad range of heat treatment services, whereas BALTONE comprises coatings that are available in a full range of elegant colours, perfectly suited for decorative applications. BALIMED ThinFilm coatings, with wear-resistant, biocompatible, antimicrobial and chemically inert properties, have been developed especially for medical applications. Under the BALIFOR technology product family the company has introduced technologies which provide tailor-made solutions for the automotive market, while ePD allows the metallisation of plastic parts with a chrome look.