Poster session at the Technology Briefing in Thun: guests from industrial companies and Swiss SMEs learn about the current research on functional surfaces. Image: Empa
Industry representatives met at Empa's Thun campus last week to get information on the latest high-tech trends in industrial coatings. The partnership with the Hightech Zentrum Aargau strengthens the transfer of knowledge from research to companies. The joint technology briefing of Empa and the Hightech Zentrum Aargau on 14 November in Thun was fully booked with 80 participants. The guests - mostly from industrial companies and Swiss SMEs - learned about the current research on functional surfaces in seven lectures. The organizers - Empa and the Hightech Zentrum Aargau - had brought together high-ranking coating specialists from Switzerland and abroad for the presentations. Paul Mayrhofer, Professor at the TU Vienna, gave an overview of historical and upcoming PVD coating technologies. Bernhard Andreaus from Inficon AG showed the first industrial applications with atomic layer deposition for three-dimensional forms.
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