Technology & Cooperation

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1 Technology & Cooperation No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You

2 2 No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You Content & Beyond 4 Making an Impact with Tribology 6 Microwave Technology, Tribological Progress 9 Arison Surface Technology - Ahead of the Market 10 Tool Coatings from R&D to Mass Production 14 International Awards for Hauzer 15 ISO 9001 Certification Hauzer Shanghai 16 Meet us Cover photo: Mechanical engineers Paul Vruggink, Wiro Geerlings and Richard van den Hombergh are discussing a machine upgrade Colophon Publisher: IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V. PO Box 3057, 5902 RB Venlo, The Netherlands Tel: Fax: info@hauzer.nl Editor: Désirée Driesenaar Tel: ddriesenaar@hauzer.nl No responsibility can be accepted for the correctness or completeness of the statements made, especially in the case of external contributions. The opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V. We reserve the right to make technical changes. Reprinting or reproduction of any kind is prohibited. Exceptions to this rule are possible only with the prior written permission of the publisher. Design: Creation Station, Roermond IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V., all rights reserved.

3 3 Thomas Krug - CEO - Jeroen Landsbergen & Beyond After ten years of dedication to Hauzer and the PVD coating community, Thomas Krug will be stepping down as CEO of IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V. as per 30 th of June His successor will be Jeroen Landsbergen, currently CCO. Thomas Krug: It has been a memorable decade of my life, characterized by change and growth. When I started at Hauzer in 2004, the company was part of the Ipsen Group. In 2008 we joined the IHI Group which opened up new horizons, gave us new opportunities and new challenges. We grew from a 16 million euro company to a turnover of 35 million euro, meanwhile doubling our employee count from 60 to 120. In the past decade nearly half of all Hauzer machines were built and we had the pleasure to cooperate with many competent customers. We have been facing a lot of challenges to develop new tailored technical solutions together with our customers and I want to thank all of you for the trust you have given Hauzer and myself. To master the ups and downs of our new technologies we employ an excellent team at Hauzer and I have always felt the support of this team. I have the confidence that my successor, Jeroen Landsbergen, will add new peaks to the timeline of our company and I am asking our customers and the Hauzer team to give him the same support and motivation in future. In the next two years I will still be active as Senior Advisor to the board and I will do my utmost to support Hauzer in reaching a next level. Thank you all! Jeroen Landsbergen: In 2004, the same year that Thomas started as CEO, I joined Hauzer as the product manager decorative applications. In 2008 I took over the marketing and sales responsibility and became member of the board as CCO. In my new role as a CEO I will continue along the road that has been so recognizable for Hauzer: technology & cooperation. These two focus points have brought us where we are today and I am convinced that they will bring us even further in the coming years. With the knowledge and experience I gained under the leadership of Thomas, I am confident we will succeed in bringing Hauzer to a next level and making us even more favoured and reputable in the market than we are today. I am looking forward to work on new solutions and technologies together with you, our customers. We are also ready to welcome new customers and serve new applications and business fields. Our very skilled team of technical experts is ready. I want to thank Thomas for his dedication and consistency and I wish him all the best for the future in which Hauzer will play a smaller role and there will be room for new interests.

4 4 No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You University of Leeds Making an Impact with Tribology Since several years Hauzer and the University of Leeds cooperate in the field of tribological research. For us there is great advantage in working with an industrial coating technology expert, Prof Anne Neville says. It gives us the opportunity to do research that is easy to scale up and we can make a real impact in markets such as oil and gas, biomedical and consumer products. The University of Leeds and more specifically the School of Mechanical Engineering identified several focus points for their research. Several years ago they bought a multifunctional Hauzer Flexicoat 850 with physical vapour deposition (PVD) and plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition (PAVCD) coating technology and tailored their research projects to use this machine to its full potential. The machine is equipped with technologies such as unbalanced magnetron sputtering (UBM), high impulse power magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS), microwave, PAVCD and it has recently been upgraded with the new arc evaporation technology CARC +. Combinations of these technologies can be used within one batch to create multi-layers without breaking the vacuum or make multi-composite coatings. Prof Anne Neville and Dr Hongyuan Zhao in front of the School of Mechanical Engineering building Widened Scope Prof Anne Neville, RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the institute of Functional Surfaces (ifs), says: We are a school of mechanical engineering, and not a material science department. Our focus is to get the coatings into an industrial application. The community of surface engineering is full of people who speak the same language; we are all engineers and we want results. Evidently we will use the Hauzer machine to its full potential and up until now our work on it has produced some very interesting results. With a machine like this we will not produce boring coatings that have been done before; we can and will be innovative! Our international reputation is built on our many years of experience in the field of tribology and corrosion research. Our focus is on research projects in the fields of automotive tribology but more and more we widen our scope to corrosion protection and combined corrosion/wear features. We produce a lot of Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) coatings, meanwhile varying dopants, hydrogen levels and reactive gases.

5 5 We treat the coating and the lubricant always as a system and our work is mainly application-based. You can never say that a coating is good or bad, it has to be tailored to the application to judge whether it is functional or not. Additionally, there is research done on CrN and SiN coatings. With our CARC + upgrade we can take this research a step further. At this moment we have more ideas than time for this exciting new technology. Paradigm Shift Dr Hongyuan Zhao, Senior Research Fellow at ifs, explains: Within the automotive industry the spotlight is on light alloys, such as titanium, aluminium and magnesium. Therefore we also research a lot of hybrid treatments and oxides on light alloys. The new CARC + upgrade will certainly be used for some next level research in this field. A spin-off from automotive has been realized in the oil and gas industry, where tribological challenges are combined with corrosion and wear protection. Another project that consumes machine time is called Life Long Joints. In a 17 million euro integrated research project we deposit a biocompatible coating on hip joints. There is currently concern over the toxicity of the debris and ions released from the cobalt-based alloys used for hip joints. In this project we use Si x N y, which is biocompatible. The SiN is deposited as a thick layer, thick enough to last a lifetime. First we sputter SiN and in the next step we use HIPIMS with microwave combined technology. Furthermore, we execute a large project coating non-conductive substrates for a consumer products company. We research the preparation of the polymers, the interlayers and the relative properties versus the polymer. We can be part of a real paradigm shift here! Pushing the Boundaries in Biomedical We have three major focus areas of research, Prof Neville continues. The first is tribology, the second is corrosion protection and the third is anti-fouling. In all these fields we have acquired an international reputation. A fourth emerging area is around biomedical applications. This fourth area has only become possible because we have this industrial machine with a wide choice of technologies. It gives us such a broad scope of research. For example, we are assessing Prof Anne Neville in front of the Hauzer Flexicoat 850 technologies for fabrication of flexible LEDs for implantable devices, surfaces for promoting cell adhesion and surfaces which can be patterned to allow particular reactions of physical processes to occur. The potential for advanced surface engineering in biomedical applications is massive. Centre of Doctoral Training Recently the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, a British government agency, decided to invest three million pounds in a Centre of Doctoral Training in integrated tribology. The University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield are both involved in this project. In five years time a total number of 75 PhD students will be trained; they will all be exposed to surface engineering and to the capabilities of the Hauzer equipment as part of their training. At least twenty international industrial partners will be involved in this doctoral training. As a country the United Kingdom has defined engineering and physical sciences as one of the focus fields in the strategic landscape. Prof Neville: We are committed to serving industry. Science and technology wise, the PVD coating machine is a quick way to support serving industry.

6 6 No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You University of Leeds Microwave Technology, Tribological Progress A few years ago the University of Leeds bought a Hauzer Flexicoat 850 machine equipped with microwave as one of many technologies. The results with the microwave source have been very exciting, Prof Anne Neville says. We are able to produce DLC with a high deposition rate, excellent adhesion and scratch resistance. The opportunities are endless; for example further research with non-conductive substrates. The department within the University of Leeds that bought the Hauzer machine is the School of Mechanical Engineering. Dr Hongyuan Zhao, Senior Research Fellow at the institute of Functional Surfaces (ifs) in Leeds, explains that their approach to research is perhaps a bit different, because they are an engineering department and so are focussed on engineering systems. We really serve industry; we are always looking a step beyond what exists today and make sure those innovations become available at an industrial level. The emission legislation is pushing us forward, but luckily the technologies with which to produce functional surfaces are also much stronger than twenty years ago. One of these technologies is microwave. In the past year we have done a lot of research; our focus was on characterisation of the coating system, understanding the coating properties and the workings of the machine. The results were very good with regard to adhesion, scratch resistance and deposition speed. Carbon-based Coatings The majority of today s coatings in the automotive industry are Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) coatings, produced by different technologies and resulting in different coating properties. These coatings provide durable wear protection and combine this with the potential to reduce friction. After being at first introduced in high pressure (HP) fuel injection systems of diesel engines, the increased engine power as a consequence of the HP injection gave an avalanche effect. Within a few years this led to the engine parts in both the valve train and power train being replaced by engine parts designed with coatings for wear resistance. These coatings were mainly carbon based (WC-C:H), but also non-carbon based coatings such as CrN found their way to automotive parts. Today, coatings most commonly used are DLC (a-c:h) coatings. In the beginning of this century new regulations were introduced for the reduction of CO 2 emission and a boost was given to the growth of DLC coatings on engine components because of their low friction properties. For CO 2 emission reduction, several measures were introduced to improve engine efficiency, such as weight reduction, engine downsizing, start-stop engines, hybrid engines and partial cylinder shut off. As a consequence, components became more severely loaded and submitted to higher tribological wear. This is related to higher power densities, as well as to a more frequent operation in boundary lubrication. PACVD and Microwave DLC coatings are often produced by plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition (PACVD) technology. In such a process hydrocarbon gas (C 2 H 2 ) enters the vacuum chamber. Due to a high potential difference across the chamber the gas is cracked and plasma is created, using a negative bias voltage. The

7 7 Hardness (GPa) Young s Modules (GPa) Bias Voltage Figure 2: Hardness upon varying the bias voltage Bias Voltage Figure 3: Young s modulus upon varying the bias voltage charged ions are attracted to the negatively biased substrates, thus forming a fi lm. In the PACVD microwave process, the start is the same, but the addition of microwave energy increases the ionisation density and consequently the deposition rate, the density and the structure of the coating. Figure 1 shows the microwave source with antenna and paraboloidal refl ector. In the Hauzer Flexicoat 850, used by the University of Leeds, the PACVD and microwave are two of the technologies alongside unbalanced magnetron sputtering (UBM), high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) and the new arc evaporation technology CARC +. This combination of technologies gives us the opportunity to research many multi-layered and multi-composite coatings, Dr Hongyuan Zhao confirms. Variations In the research done by the University of Leeds, DLC coatings produced by microwave technology have been compared with several other types of coatings (table 1). The aim of the research was to find the independent and combined effects of varying the bias voltage on the mechanical and tribological properties of the coatings. Furthermore the research should show the highest hardness achievable using these variables. In this research the bias voltage varied from -50V to -300V. The graphs in figure 2 and 3 show hardness and Young s modulus upon varying the bias voltage. As you can see, the hardness and Young s modulus both peak upon a bias voltage of -250V. Figure 1: the microwave source; antenna and paraboloidal reflector Type Hardness (GPa) Elastic modules (GPa) Diamond Graphite a-c:h (hard) a-c:h (soft) < ta-c ± 47.5 ta-c:h < ± 49 W DLC Si DLC µwave DLC Table 1: Several kinds of coatings with corresponding hardness and elastic modulus High Deposition Rate Dr Ivan Kolev, Senior Process Engineer at Hauzer, comments that an interesting fact about the microwave is its deposition rate. When we produce hydrogenated DLC in a PACVD process with microwave, we can achieve similar properties

8 8 No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You challenges that Hauzer does not yet know the answer to. And Hauzer gives us support with an industrial point of view. Dr Hongyuan Zhao, Senior Research Fellow at the institute of Functional Surfaces (ifs) Dr Ivan Kolev, Senior Process Engineer to a regular PACVD process. However, due to the increased ionisation density we achieve a deposition rate of 5 to 6 µm per hour for two-fold rotation. This is 4-5 times more than the deposition rate of regular PACVD. Furthermore the thermoload can be better controlled and the temperature is 20-30% lower. The extra advantage of microwave is that non-conductive substrates can easily be coated with PACVD, because the microwave generates the plasma instead of the bias on the substrate table and products Future Potential More research needs to be done before the microwave technology becomes available for mass production. Dr Ivan Kolev: At this moment we use manual tuning of the impedance, full automation will be possible in future. Also the maintenance of the source needs to be improved still. But for the future there is also a lot of potential to be recognised. For example, microwave coatings may be combined with lacquer on decorative products, such as non-conductive plastic substrates. With this kind of substrate however, we need to be very careful, because if it absorbs the microwave radiation it will heat-up and melt. Dr Hongyuan Zhao: And that is why we make such a good team with Hauzer. In Leeds we can research Acknowledgements: Hauzer thanks Prof Anne Neville and PhD student Louise Austin for the research done with microwave technology. Microwave Technology at a Glance Facts: Deposition rate is 4-5 times higher than regular PACVD, due to high ionisation rate Characteristics of the coatings can be matched to those produced with regular PACVD technology Thermoload is better controllable Temperature can be kept 20-30% lower Allows to coat non-conductive substrates Expectations and further research: Possible to achieve a saturated black colour Good adhesion on lacquer (alternative to electroplating)

9 9 Arison Surface Technology (Suzhou) Ltd. Keeping Ahead of the Market In 2012 Arison started its business as a job coating company in Suzhou, China. From the start we have decided to build our business with Hauzer equipment and we do not regret it, Mr Mao Chang Hai, President, says. At first we bought a Rapid Tool Coater 850 and at the end of 2012 we were ready to order a second machine. After a full year of developments our two machines are running at full capacity and we are planning to purchase a third machine. For Arison, cutting tools and moulds are the most important products to be coated. Mr. Mao Chang Hai: We coat a lot of cemented carbide milling inserts, stamping dies and die casting dies. AlCrN is our most important coating. Every month we handle products for more than two hundred customers from the Changjiang Delta, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing, Tianjin, Changsha province and the Pearl River Delta region. However, the PVD market is expanding very quickly and more and more coating companies start a job coating business. Coating prices are falling rapidly, but quality requirements are increasing. In the next few years I foresee that coating prices will fall even further. The key to survival and development for job coaters is to seize the market when demand is growing and control the costs while the profit margins are falling. Stability and Reliability In order to have an answer to these challenges in the market, Arison continuously adjusts the coating price and develops its coating types to fit the requirements of the market even better. At the same time the company prepares for the layout of the new coating centre for the future. A time of great development for PVD coatings is coming, Mr. Mao Chang Hai explains. Falling profit margins and quickening business expansion are our biggest challenges. But we are sure that our efforts to keep ahead of the market will ensure a successful progress. When we started our company, Arison inspected many coating machine suppliers. After comparing them we chose Hauzer as our sole machine supplier. We are convinced that this partnership is a winwin situation and lasting, because Hauzer provides a lot of support for our company s development. For a job coater, the first priority for a machine is stability, reliability and low failure rate and this is something the Hauzer machine provides. Also with the open process window, we can develop new coating types by ourselves. One thing we would recommend is more modularity once a process is relatively stable; this way a job coater can buy an increase in capacity without having to test unwanted options. All in all, Hauzer supplies an excellent machine for job coaters and the subsidiary in Shanghai gives us the customer support we need.

10 10 No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You Hauzer Flexicoat 850 Tool Coatings from R&D to Mass Production The versatile Hauzer Flexicoat 850 is a popular machine in completely different tool coating market segments, such as job coaters, tool makers and R&D institutes. Why? The machine comes in several configurations that are tailored to the requirements in these markets. Michiel Eerden, Product Manager: Please have a look at the various possibilities. You can pick and choose. General Features Fast and reliable, producing extremely smooth coatings; those are the characteristics of a Hauzer Flexicoat 850 machine with CARC + technology (fi gure 1). A high deposition rate leading to a cycle time of less than four hours for a typical TiN coating on shaft tools makes the machine very suitable for job coaters who need to switch batches fast. An Ra of less than 0.16 µm for a layer of 2 µm AlTiN coating shows superior smoothness. Furthermore, it is a robust machine requiring minimum maintenance. The CARC + technology supplies superior arc confinement and an extremely high target utilization. These characteristics together guarantee low ownership costs. Of course the machine can also be equipped with the technology for producing carbon coatings, such as ta-c, which is a hydrogen-free diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating with high hardness and low friction. With its load diameter of 500 mm, load height of 500 mm and load mass of 400 kg, the machine is very suitable for tool makers and job coaters alike. Due to the technology combinations to be fitted on a new machine or retrofitted later, the machine is also popular with Figure 1: Hauzer Flexicoat 850 with CARC + technology R&D centres and universities. Newly developed coatings can easily be scaled up from experimental to mass production. In a configuration for mass tool production, the Hauzer Flexicoat 850 is equipped with two banks of CARC + cathodes, Michiel Eerden explains. In this way the machine becomes a real work horse. Full batches, produced 24/7, will combine quality coatings with an excellent productivity. All regular nitride tool coatings (examples in figure 2) can be produced with CARC + technology. Several tool makers and job coaters use CARC + technology on their machines now and they report very favourable results.

11 11 Figure 2: Taps coated with TiN and AlTiN, deposited with CARC + technology Figure 3: End mills coated with ta-c coating High Hardness, Low Friction. But there is more to tool coatings than just nitride coaings. The automotive industry is always looking for ways to reduce CO 2 emissions. One of the solutions explored by the automotive industry is reducing weight by choosing different materials. However, materials such as aluminium and carbon reinforced plastics also have disadvantages. The old ways of machining steel cannot be applied to them; the materials stick to the tools making the latter blunt and deteriorating tool performance. In the light of these changes the tool industry has to keep up with innovations. Tool makers have been concentrating to innovate on substrates and geometry, Michiel explains, but the third factor, coating, has a strong influence as well. The right interplay of cutting edge and coating is a deciding factor in the performance of precision tools. In order to find the right balance we work closely together with our customers. Their knowledge of substrate materials and geometry are combined with our coating knowledge to find an optimum solution. In case of machining aluminium and plastics we have been looking at the Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) family of coatings and researched hydrogen-free DLC (ta-c) as a possibility. Several tool makers and job coaters have chosen this ta-c process in our Hauzer Flexicoat 850 equipment and are very enthusiastic about the results. Low Sticking Effect The ta-c coating is deposited in a circular arc process. The coating is characterized by high hardness ( HV), generally a thickness of less than 1 µm and a friction coefficient between 0.02 and 0.1 versus dry Al 2 O 3. The deposition temperature range will be between 80 and 200 degrees Celsius, whereas the operating temperature can exceed 500 degrees. The coating has a typical rainbow colour (figure 3). Michiel: Our ta-c coating, with a high amount of sp3 structures, has been developed for an automotive, tribological application. With our longstanding experience in developing low-friction coatings, we recognised the advantages for the tool industry. So we further developed the use of ta-c coating on cutting tools for machining materials like aluminium, copper and carbon reinforced plastics. The low-sticking effect of the coating prevents a built-up edge on the tool and therefore keeps the cutting edge sharp for a longer period of time. Our ta-c coating proved to outperform uncoated tools and tools coated with typical metal nitride coatings. Requirements for R&D So far we have spoken about nitride and carbon coatings applied in mass production markets, Michiel continues. But there is more; research and development organisations have their own requirements. Due to the flexibility of the Hauzer Flexicoat 850 the machine is popular in this area. And when they realise what the opportunities are with CARC + technology for the production of superlattices, the machine might become even more popular. In one machine many technolo-

12 12 No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You Figure 4: Hauzer Flexicoat 850 standard configuration with two banks of CARC + cathodes Figure 5: Hauzer Flexicoat 850 configuration with elemental targets. gies can be combined, such as CARC +, single or dual magnetron sputtering, microwave, PACVD and Nitrocoat Duplex Treatment. Furthermore the machine can be adapted to specific requirements for a certain technology. In case of CARC + technology the production of atomic mixed, superlattice and multilayer structures are possible by choosing arc current and rotation speed. A standard configuration of the Hauzer Flexicoat 850 for tool coatings will be equipped with two banks of three CARC + cathodes. The machines works with 35 kw heater power and the back door is prepared for a third CARC + cathode bank. When the machine is making a monolayer, the cathode current is 200 A, the deposition speed is 3 µm per hour and the rotation speed is 2 rpm. In one hour the product will pass the cathode bank 120 times, therefore the average added thickness per pass is 3000 nm per 120 passes, that is 25 nm per pass. Superlattice Production With this standard confi guration (fi gure 4) it is possible to produce nanoscale multilayers, so called superlattices. The difference between multilayers and superlattice is mainly the thickness of the layer. With multilayers the layers are typically in a range of 100 nm, whereas they typically range from 1-10 nm in superlattice production. If two different target materials are used simultaneously, the cathode current is twice 100 A and the deposition speed per cathode is approximately 1.5 µm per hour with a rotation speed of 2 rpm. Therefore, the average added thickness per pass is 1500 nm divided by 120 passes, which is 12.5 nm per pass. This gives the superlattice structure and corresponds with approximately 100 atomic layers per pass. Atomic Mixing The Hauzer Flexicoat 850 can also be equipped with three banks of CARC + cathodes with elemental targets (see figure 5). This way the utmost flexibility for production of superlattice can be achieved. All kinds of elemental targets are possible, although the arc will not run on an Si-target. Therefore Si will always be deposited from an alloyed target, such as TiSi, AlSi or CrSi. For optimum performance the machine will be equipped with special arc power supplies with a low current stability of approximately 40 A, compared to a standard of approximately 80 A. The special rotation speed option is rpm, compared to standard rpm. With an arc current of 40 A and rotation speed of 10 rpm, the average added thickness per pass can be as low as 1 nm per pass. This roughly equals 1 atom per pass resulting in near atomic mixing. As you can see, the Hauzer Flexicoat 850 equipped with different technologies opens a broad range of opportunities for job coaters, tool makers and R&D institutes alike, Michiel concludes. When we develop new coating recipes, our customers can obtain these free of charge. This ensures that our customers can always remain at the forefront of their own markets. We gladly support their efforts.

13 13 CARC + Technology Performance Results A prestigious American tool maker tested 13 coatings from different suppliers, cutting different materials. Hauzer s TiAlN performed much better than the benchmark coatings. After six times testing (2x AISI 4140 wet milling, 2x AISI 4140 dry milling, 6Al4V and AISI 304) the Hauzer TiAlN coating produced with CARC + technology was the glorious winner over the competitors TiAlN, AlTiN, AlCrN and Si nanocomposite coatings. Our CARC + TiAlN coating achieved the following test results in the category AISI 4140 wet milling: Our CARC + TiAlN coating achieved the following test results in the category 6Al4V wet milling: Parameters: Square end mill Ø 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) Vc = 137 m/min Vf = 1400 mm/min n = 3438 min -1 Parameters: Square end mill Ø 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) Vc = 91 m/min Vf = 1046 mm/min n = 2292 min -1 Results: Cutting distance: 110 m (in a range from 37 to 110 m) Ranking, based on visual inspection: No. 1 Results: Cutting distance: 75 m (in a range from 25 to 75 m) Ranking, based on visual inspection: No. 1 Our CARC + TiAlN coating achieved the following test results in the category AISI 4140 dry milling: Our CARC + TiAlN coating achieved the following test results in the category AISI 304 wet milling: Parameters: Square end mill Ø 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) Vc = 305 m/min Vf = 5044 mm/min n = 7640 min -1 Parameters: Square end mill Ø 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) Vc = 91 m/min Vf = 700 mm/min n = 2292 min -1 Results: Cutting distance: 329 m (in a range from 73 to 329 m) Ranking, based on visual inspection: No. 2 Results: Cutting distance: 73 m (in a range from 12 to 73 m) Ranking, based on visual inspection: No. 3

14 14 No. 23 April 2014 Hauzer for You International Awards for Hauzer In 2013 Hauzer received several awards for innovative technologies and business. Smart Solution Award The Netherlands Hauzer is the winner of the Smart Solution Award for the region Limburg. Koninklijke Metaalunie awarded Hauzer the honour on the grounds of distinguishing ourselves in our markets. The expansion in Asian markets, combined with new technologies and new production platforms are viewed as impressive. Technology Innovation Award China Development of Hauzer s CARC + tool coating technology has resulted in the Chinese Ringier Technology Innovation Award for The purpose of the award is to encourage, acknowledge and reward those individuals and companies who have developed a new idea, a new methodology, a new product or a new technology for manufacturing production efficiency, cost effectiveness, user convenience, which results in energy saving and more responsible clean manufacturing in the metalworking industry. China Business Award The Netherlands Hauzer won the China Business Awards for its achievements in China. The China Business Award is presented annually to a Dutch company in recognition of this company s successes over the preceding two years in China and/ or Hong Kong. The winning company must have distinguished itself from its competitors through innovation, creativity, profitability and corporate sustainability and must have managed not only to survive, but to thrive in the complex and constantly changing Chinese market. According to the jury Hauzer distinguished itself from the competition by innovative technology.

15 15 ISO 9001 Certification Hauzer Shanghai Fulfills Expectations Last year Hauzer Shanghai received the much strived for ISO 9001 certifi cation out of the hands of the DNV Business Assurance Group. Mark Lum, Deputy Manager at Hauzer Shanghai, is proud: We worked hard to meet all requirements and we are glad that the auditing company judged our work processes as good enough to grant us the certifi cate. Since April 2013 Hauzer Shanghai worked hard to ensure the organisation achieved the specifi ed objectives and meet the applicable statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements. In August, during the trial examination by DNV, Hauzer Shanghai received a few minor non-conformities. Mark Lum: With the efforts from all members of the Hauzer Shanghai team and support from the headquarters in Venlo, we rectifi ed these small obstacles and passed the fi nal audit. The certifi cate was granted to us in October The certifi cate will be reviewed annually; we will keep up the efforts for continuous improvements and maintain our effi ciency and productivity.

16 Meet us Hauzer would like to welcome you to the following conferences and exhibitions, where we will be present. 35 th Vienna Motor Symposium ICMCTF SVC International Vienna Drivetrain for HIPIMS Conference Surface Structure EMTE EASTPO Motor Symposium Vehicles Design Show April 28-May 02, 2014 May 3-8, 2014 May 8-9, 2014 June 24-25, 2014 June 30-July 03, 2014 July 2-4, 2014 July 14-17, 2014 San Diego, CA Chicago, IL Vienna Friedrichshafen Sheffield Nagoya Shanghai USA USA Austria Germany United Kingdom Japan China