AlTiN Coating
Aluminum titanium nitride coating supports tools operating under elevated heat and abrasive cutting conditions, helping preserve edge performance and extend useful tool life.
Protect critical tooling with high-performance PVD ceramic coatings engineered to resist wear, heat, friction, and material buildup. Surface Solutions helps manufacturers extend tool life, reduce sharpening and maintenance demands, and support more consistent production across cutting, forming, punching, and molding applications. Explore coating options selected around your substrate, operating temperatures, material, and production goals.
Explore durable PVD coating options for tooling exposed to friction, heat, abrasion, and demanding production cycles.
Aluminum titanium nitride coating supports tools operating under elevated heat and abrasive cutting conditions, helping preserve edge performance and extend useful tool life.
Titanium carbo-nitride coating provides a hard, wear-resistant surface for tools that encounter friction, sliding contact, and demanding forming or cutting operations.
Chrome nitride coating helps reduce heat, friction, and galling in applications where workpieces and tooling experience repeated contact during production.
Titanium nitride coating is a versatile PVD option that improves surface hardness and wear resistance for a broad range of manufacturing tools.
Alpha coating is designed to delay sharpening needs, reduce punch chipping, limit galvanized buildup, and help eliminate polishing in applicable tooling operations.
Carbide coating solutions help protect carbide tooling against abrasive wear, supporting more reliable performance and longer intervals between maintenance activities.
Wear and abrasion resistant ceramic coatings create a hard PVD barrier that helps tools withstand repeated friction, heat, and contact with demanding materials. Surface Solutions evaluates the application to match a coating with the tool’s substrate and operating conditions. The result can be longer runs between sharpening, less lubricant and maintenance, reduced buildup, and more consistent parts from production cycle to production cycle.
See how durable PVD coatings help manufacturers improve tool performance and reduce maintenance demands.
"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!!!..."
Practical PVD coating expertise focused on improving tooling performance and controlling operating costs.
High-performance PVD coatings help extend tool life and reduce operational costs in demanding manufacturing applications.
Coating solutions support cutting, metal forming, punching, injection molding, medical, and firearm tooling applications.
Surface Solutions supports customers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico with coating services.
Coatings can reduce sharpening frequency, lubricant use, buildup, chipping, and routine tool maintenance workload.
A coating partner for demanding manufacturing tooling.
Surface Solutions provides high-performance PVD coatings for manufacturers seeking stronger wear protection, longer tool life, and reduced operating costs. Based in Fridley, Minnesota, the company supports customers throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, serving industries where tooling performance directly affects output and maintenance schedules. Its coating offerings support metal forming, sheet metal forming, punching, cutting tools, injection molding, medical device manufacturing, and other specialized applications. Surface Solutions focuses on helping customers select coatings that address abrasion, friction, heat, galling, and material buildup. From Upper Midwest manufacturing operations to national production programs, the goal is practical: help tools work better, keep productive runs moving, and reduce the time and labor associated with frequent sharpening or basic maintenance.
There is no single most durable ceramic coating for every application. Durability depends on the tool substrate, contact pressure, temperature, material being processed, lubrication, and failure mode. AlTiN is often suited to high-temperature cutting, while TiCN, CrN, TiN, Alpha, and carbide coating options can be better matched to specific wear, friction, buildup, or forming challenges. The best choice is application-specific.
Talk with our team about your tooling application and wear concerns.
High-performance coating focus for manufacturing tools.
Solutions for varied tooling applications.
Service across the United States, Canada, Mexico.
Tell us about your tool, material, operating conditions, and wear challenge. Our team will help identify a suitable coating direction.
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.