PVD Coating
Physical Vapor Deposition creates hard, thin-film surfaces that improve wear resistance and tool performance without changing critical geometry, ideal where consistency, surface quality, and long production runs matter.
Surface Solutions designs high-performance Custom Coatings that help manufacturers extend tool life, reduce sharpening frequency, and improve finished part quality. From PVD coatings for cutting tools and punches to specialized finishes for medical, firearm, and forming applications, our team helps match each substrate and production challenge with a coating built for longer runs and lower maintenance.
Explore coating options engineered to improve durability, release, heat resistance, lubricity, and overall production efficiency.
Physical Vapor Deposition creates hard, thin-film surfaces that improve wear resistance and tool performance without changing critical geometry, ideal where consistency, surface quality, and long production runs matter.
Alpha coating helps delay sharpening, reduce punch chipping, minimize galvanized build-up, and eliminate polishing needs in select applications, supporting longer runs and lower maintenance demands.
TiN provides a recognizable gold finish and dependable wear protection for tools and components that need improved hardness, reduced friction, and better production consistency.
TiCN offers enhanced hardness and lubricity for tooling exposed to demanding wear conditions, helping manufacturers improve tool life and performance in cutting and forming operations.
AlTiN is suited for high-heat, high-performance applications where thermal stability and wear resistance are important, especially for cutting tools and demanding manufacturing environments.
CrN coating supports applications requiring durability, release, and reduced heat transfer, including tooling where lower friction and resistance to build-up are critical.
Custom Coatings should solve a production problem, not simply add a finish. Surface Solutions helps manufacturers choose PVD coatings that reduce chipping, limit galvanized build-up, decrease lubricant needs, and keep tools running longer between maintenance cycles. The result is cleaner output, fewer interruptions, and coating performance tailored to cutting, forming, punching, molding, medical, and firearm components.
Manufacturers rely on Surface Solutions to improve tool performance, production uptime, and finished part quality.
"Surface Solutions helped me with a small, but very significant project. They CrN coated some titanium pieces for me. They went above and beyond to make it amazing. Chet and Mike are pros and I would highly recommend their service."
"Nearly everything we resharpen gets sent out to Surface Solutions for coatings. I had one customer that wasn't using coatings and now that he's tried it, he wants everything coated. His tools are working better than new. It's like night and day . . ."
"The Alpha™ coating that was utilized last time for these small parts worked great. I was very pleased with the result as it greatly increased the part life. I was able to make 500 passes using the scratch testing equipment and saw no visible degradation of the coating under our..."
"Alpha cutters are amazing! And I hear AlTiN can only get better… Either way, we are going to ship you a huge set to get processed asap… Thank you so much! Kirk is thinking that these cutters just eliminated an entire process to the current one we have to do!!!..."
"Surface Solutions helped me with a small, but very significant project. They CrN coated some titanium pieces for me. They went above and beyond to make it amazing. Chet and Mike are pros and I would highly recommend their service."
"Nearly everything we resharpen gets sent out to Surface Solutions for coatings. I had one customer that wasn't using coatings and now that he's tried it, he wants everything coated. His tools are working better than new. It's like night and day . . ."
"The Alpha™ coating that was utilized last time for these small parts worked great. I was very pleased with the result as it greatly increased the part life. I was able to make 500 passes using the scratch testing equipment and saw no visible degradation of the coating under our..."
"Alpha cutters are amazing! And I hear AlTiN can only get better… Either way, we are going to ship you a huge set to get processed asap… Thank you so much! Kirk is thinking that these cutters just eliminated an entire process to the current one we have to do!!!..."
"Surface Solutions helped me with a small, but very significant project. They CrN coated some titanium pieces for me. They went above and beyond to make it amazing. Chet and Mike are pros and I would highly recommend their service."
"Nearly everything we resharpen gets sent out to Surface Solutions for coatings. I had one customer that wasn't using coatings and now that he's tried it, he wants everything coated. His tools are working better than new. It's like night and day . . ."
"The Alpha™ coating that was utilized last time for these small parts worked great. I was very pleased with the result as it greatly increased the part life. I was able to make 500 passes using the scratch testing equipment and saw no visible degradation of the coating under our..."
"Alpha cutters are amazing! And I hear AlTiN can only get better… Either way, we are going to ship you a huge set to get processed asap… Thank you so much! Kirk is thinking that these cutters just eliminated an entire process to the current one we have to do!!!..."
Surface Solutions helps manufacturers choose coatings that solve real production challenges.
Coatings can help produce 6x more parts before sharpening is required again.
Reduced sharpening frequency can save 48 hours of labor in demanding production workflows.
Serving customers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico with reasonable turnaround times.
Solutions support forming, punching, cutting tools, molding, medical devices, and firearm components applications.
Practical coating guidance for demanding manufacturing applications.
Surface Solutions is a Fridley, Minnesota-based metal finishing and tool coating provider focused on high-performance PVD coatings for manufacturers that need longer tool life and fewer production interruptions. The company supports customers in metal forming, punching, sheet metal forming, drawing, cutting tools, medical device manufacturing, firearm components, and tool resharpening services. Rather than treating coating as a one-size-fits-all finish, Surface Solutions helps align coating selection with heat, wear, friction, build-up, release, and maintenance goals. With customers across the Upper Midwest and broader North American markets, the team’s vision is practical: make tools work better than new, reduce avoidable labor, and improve output quality.
Custom Coatings are engineered surface treatments selected around a tool’s material, application, wear pattern, heat exposure, and production goal. Surface Solutions focuses on high-performance PVD coatings that can reduce friction, improve release, increase wear resistance, limit build-up, and extend tool life for forming, punching, cutting, molding, medical, and firearm applications.
Get application-specific guidance from the Surface Solutions team.
High-performance thin-film coating expertise.
Service coverage across North America.
Coating results focused on productivity.
Tell us about your tool material, application, wear issues, and production goals so our team can recommend the right custom coating approach.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +1 763-785-9436. You can also send us a quick email at info@tincoat.net.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +1 763-785-9436. You can also send us a quick email at info@tincoat.net.