Sputtering coatings for decorative sector are becoming more important in thin film coating industry every day.
This technique allows to obtain coatings with “metal effect”; generally speaking sputtering technique allows to deposit  conductive or insulating  material on every kind of  metallic, ceramics or plastic substrate.

Respect to other coating techniques, sputtering allows to achieve:

• remarkable quality of the deposited film
• a process environmental friendly
• a room-temperature treatment
• an excellent process control and notable process repeatability
• a prominent substrate film adhesion
• the opportunity to create nanostructure deposits or deposits with functional characteristic
• nickel free deposits  and chromium VI free deposits
• the possibility to create or deposit alloys
• the possibility to deposit precious metals saving large quantities of metal

For example, these characteristics allowed sputtering technique to replace the traditional metallization process by means of evaporation on plastic-polymers substrates, especially for processes where high quality is required and for object with high value added.