Business Unit Partners
Ionbond is part of the Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering business unit of the IHI group. The business unit is active in providing Services for coating (Ionbond) and Heat treatment (IHI VTN) as well as providing Equipment; CVD, CVA and CVI by IHI Bernex, PVD and PACVD by IHI Hauzer Techno Coating, and Heat Treatment equipment by IHI Machinery and Furnace Company.
Swiss CVD solutions
IHI Bernex, a Hauzer daughter company within the IHI Group, offers systems for a wide range of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technologies, including chemical vapor aluminizing (CVA) and chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) with solid metalorganic precursors (MOCVD). Bernex CVD systems set the worldwide industry standard in CVD enhancement of wear, friction and temperature protection of tools and components. Bernex is renowned worldwide for their expertise in developing proprietary coatings and the reliability of their machines in the past 45 years.
State of the art PVD and PACVD equipment
Ionbond’s sister company Hauzer Techno Coating, located in Venlo, the Netherlands, has served the market with specialized PVD and PACVD coating equipment since 1983.
As a leader in arc evaporation, magnetron sputtering and plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition technologies, Hauzer Techno Coating is your partner of choice for industry-proven PVD and PACVD coating equipment. Hauzer also offers Cromatipic© technology, the environmentally friendly alternative to chrome electroplating, from its expertise center in Barcelona, Spain.
IHI VTN is a heat treatment specialist operating 5 heat treatment centers in Germany. VTN has been hardening materials since 1950, all the time working to ensure that components and machines are able to withstand the heaviest loads and greatest resistances. As a NADCAP-certified heat treatment center, VTN also enjoys the trust of the aerospace industry.
IHI Machinery and Furnace Company (IMS) is a top tier supplier of vacuum furnaces and vacuum degreasing equipment with more than 2000 installations world-wide and a leader in vacuum carburizing based on patented technology utilizing acetylene gas.