Experts on plasma coating, plasma surface treatment, non-plasma advanced surface engineering and vacuum coating met in the Dutch city of Venlo in July to attend the High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS) Conference and to celebrate a round anniversary.Sheffield Hallam University and Fraunhofer IST HIPIMS Research Centre invited this year to the thirteenth international Conference on HIPIMS in Venlo, The Netherlands. At the same time IHI Hauzer, global player in the field of PVD equipment, celebrated its 40th anniversary. The traditional scope of HIPIMS-(High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering) plasma and coating technology was extended by including a broad range of technologies for plasma coating, plasma surface treatments and non-plasma advanced surface engineering.