Industry collaboration Carbide in focus: The right choice for a precision tool

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High-tech industries are increasingly reliant on precision tools. Carbide tools stand out for their hardness, wear resistance and heat tolerance, thanks to a perfect blend of substrate, geometry and coating. Collaborations between Cemecon and Extramet have fine-tuned this blend, optimising carbide's hardness and toughness.

Complex products and modern high-tech materials are placing ever greater demands on precision tools. According to Cemecon, carbide tools have numerous advantages over HSS tools: They are harder, more wear-resistant, more heat-resistant and, with a few exceptions, have a longer service life. They enable high-precision machining and higher cutting speeds. The prerequisite for this is the perfect combination of substrate, geometry and coating. The carbide as the basis is of particular importance here. Cemecon and Extramet have been working together for many years to develop the best combination.

“Carbide has extremely good properties for cutting tools: such as hardness, compressive strength, impact resistance, flexural strength, corrosion resistance and more. Over the past 30 years in particular, enormous progress has been made in manufacturing, and the relationship between hardness and toughness has been significantly optimized. Today, carbide tools have replaced HSS tools in almost all areas,” describes Bruno Süess, former director and current member of the supervisory board of Extramet, board member of the Swiss Powder Metallurgy Association as well as expert in carbides and their production and advantages.