COATING WITH HARD WEAR AND NON-STICK CHARACTERISTICS

摘要

The invention relates to a coating, an article with a coating and method of applying the coating which has improved non stick characteristics. The coating includes or is wholly formed with a metal nitride which is preferably deposited using a closed field unbalanced magnetron ion sputter plating process and is found to provide a coating which is especially useful in mould tools to prevent plastics material being formed in the mould from sticking to the surface of the mould tool.