Corrosion behaviour of the protective and decorative TiN coatings on large area steel strips

Decorative and protective TiN coatings were vacuum arc deposited in an industrial installation ‘Nikolay’ allowing coating of strips with maximum size 2100◊1300◊8 mm. Titanium nitride ( TiN ) coatings on stainless steel strips have been characterized in terms of microstructure and corrosion resistance. The vacuum arc deposited TiN coatings have a higher corrosion resistance compared with TiN coatings on steel produced by plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition, glow discharge deposition, direct current magnetron sputtering or magnetron sputter deposition. © 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.