Sputtering as a phenomenon was first observed back in the 1850s but remained a scientific curiosity until the 1940s, when diode sputtering was firstly used to some significant extent as a commercial coating process.

Protective wear coatings can be used for sheet metal pressing, steel forming, aluminum foundries, and for the production of machine parts and components for the automotive industry.

PVD – acronym for Physical Vapor Deposition – is an environmental friendly high vacuum coating technology for thin film deposition on different kinds of base materials in plasma atmosphere.