PVD MACHINE'S REGULAR MAINTENANCE IN UKRAINE

Multi-arc PVD Plating Machine's maintenance service

Machine's Model: RTAC1416, cathodic arc sources evaporation for decorative coatings.

Machine's installation: April 2018

Location: zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Customer Website: https://decormodel.prom.ua/

After Poland's machine assemble, on Sep. 29th. 2019, we went to Ukraine's customer site directly for the maintenance training and new coating process's R&D.

In Ukraine, no electroplating line is allowed to use, there is strictly policy by gonverment to protect the environment. So our customer has been doing the R&D experiments with PVD plating + Base/Top coating by spraying painting process on zamak (zinc alloy) door handles and door handle plates.

One and half year has passed, what is the testing result? Are they ready for market promotion? What the main issue they are facing now? How we can assist them to solve the bottleneck?... with tons of questions, we arrived Ukraine's factory and guess what we found out?

On 29th. 30th, Sep. our engineer Mr. Shi and customer's PVD technician has cleaned the machine completely:

1. All pumps oil change

2. All vacuum pipes clean

3. Checking any exposion of water and gas tubes

4. Checking all vacuum fittings and sealings

5. Cleaning the heaters, chamber shields, arc cathodes, rotary rack etc.

"What an amazing evacuation speed after cleaning! Before the first cycle is more than 40 minutes, now, only 10 mins, the vacuum pressure is up to 9.0E-3Pa. Thank you so much for the job" said Mr. Sergey.

Except theris own door handles coating, Mr. Sergey also receive the PVD outsourcing service, like: glass cups, glass vase, stainless steel products etc.

We are so happy to see the machine remains good condition, hope customer use it to earn the investment back at the soonest.