Novel Coating Systems and Surface Technologies for Continuous Processing of Steel Sheet

In this article, approaches are described to create the technological basics for a new generation of surface coated steel strip products. Important means to reach this aim are the use of new results from basic research (e.g., interfacial and surface chemistry/physics) and the transfer of innovative and non-polluting deposition technologies (e.g., vapor deposition processes such as physical vapor deposition, PVD, and chemical vapor deposition, CVD) to continuous processing of steel strip.