b'Although harder, the coating ex- for a home. every year for the last 18 years, he hibits a high level of toughness.With its new headquarters andsaid. Realistically, I see adding an-You would normally think it wouldproduction facility in operation,other 25 percent in the next 3 to 5 be more brittle, but its not, LakeLake predicts continuing growth foryears. We basically have been grow-said. CemeCon Inc., which employs 50ing at that level. CTEThe new technology is openingpeople. We have added people Alan Richterdoors throughout the coating in-dustry, according to Lake. The in-troduction of HiPIMS technology has changed everything. The prop-erties were getting from HiPIMS CemeCon CemeCon relocated its CVD coating equipment to its new building.technology, compared to sputter-ing and DC arc-based technologies, are phenomenally better.Because of HiPIMS high energy, a PVD coating can adhere to a CVD diamond coating, enabling a con-ductive coating to be deposited on diamond, Lake explained. He added that a PVD coating depos-ited via a typical arc-sputtering pro-cess will not properly adhere to di-amond. With the new capability, CemeCon has introduced CCDia- Come see us atHiSpeed, a coating material with propertiesthatwerepreviously unattainable.That is of interest in some very specific areas relative to automated machining, he said. CCDiaHi- Speed is a developmental productBooth 432217and is really a technology lookingwww.kyocera-sgstool.comctemag.com/cteguide.com19IndyNews.indd 19 2/15/18 2:40 PM'