The Joint Expert Panel "Combined Surface Technology", which was founded together between the alliances DFO, DGO, EFDS and INPLAS is working on combined coatings from the fields electroplating, painting technology and plasma technology. It brings together these several segments so that the combination of these methods of the thin film and thick film technology can advance the surface technology. Greater targets of the Joint Expert Panel are bundling of potencies, advance of the clout as well as increase of the political acceptance. Your contact is Dr Petra Uhlmann at the Leibniz-IPF or the INPLAS office (organizational responsibility).