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Using reactive sputtering to obtain the required colour.
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Arzuffi Fast-Met Metallising Systems for an Unlimited Range of Colours Thanks to Reactive Sputtering Massimo Galbiati Arzuffi Srl – Bernareggio (Monza e Brianza) - Italy
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The Fast-Met machines are high vacuum metallising equipment with
included an article presenting the characteristics of the
sputtering and reactive sputtering process. This technology allows
metallising plants belonging to Arzuffi’s Line-Met product
achieving a “colour coating”, or coloured metallisation effect. Their
family. The subdivision of Arzuffi’s production into families is
structure is modular and it can be changed according to customer
necessary because each plant line can be tailored to customer needs,
needs: for example, the metallising chamber can have two doors
while maintaining the processes and technologies of its family. This
or one double-sided door, the magnetron cathode can be rotating
article, on the other hand, delves into the characteristics of the plants
or planar, the piece-holding fixtures can be double or single. The
belonging to the Fast-Met family.
cycle time of this family’s machines is short: from 4 to 9 minutes, depending on the required treatment. Moreover, especially in the
D. Arzuffi, Line-Met: the new, revolutionary concept of metallising plants created by Arzuffi Srl, in ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine no. 66 (November/ December 2020), Vol. XI, pp. 94-96.
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presence of a double-sided door, the process can be automated