Tag: Carbide Preform

Carbide preforms are a type of raw material used in the production of carbide cutting tools and wear parts. They are typically made by compacting a powdered mixture of tungsten carbide and a metallic binder, such as cobalt or nickel, into a specific shape or size.

The capabilities of carbide preforms can vary depending on the manufacturer and the specific production process used. Some common capabilities of carbide preforms include:

Custom shapes and sizes: Carbide preforms can be made in a wide range of shapes and sizes to meet specific customer requirements, such as complex geometries for cutting tools or wear parts with unique profiles.

Consistent quality and performance: With the use of advanced production processes and quality control measures, carbide preforms can provide consistent performance and quality, ensuring that the finished cutting tools or wear parts meet the required specifications and perform reliably in use.

High density and strength: Carbide preforms are known for their high density and strength, which makes them ideal for use in cutting tools and wear parts that require high levels of durability and wear resistance.

Multiple binder options: Carbide preforms can be made using different binder metals, such as cobalt, nickel, or iron, to achieve different properties and performance characteristics.

Advanced coatings: Some carbide preforms can be coated with advanced materials, such as diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings, to further enhance their wear resistance and performance.

We produce a wide range of custom-made carbide preform in a variety of sizes and shapes. Our products are used in industries such as metal production, forming processes, paper, wood products, material handling, mining, energy production, automotive, and transportation.

Here we are dedicated to the continual improvement of our manufacturing process and to providing the highest quality carbide preform to our customers.

Customer-specific green machined and semi-finished cemented carbide preforms.

In addition to our wide range of cemented tungsten carbide rods, we have the expertise to manufacture high-quality, customer-specific, green machined and semi–finished cemented carbide preforms to your specifications.

These custom-shaped cemented tungsten carbide blanks reduce your need for grinding and finishing, saving you time and money.

Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and testing enable us to produce near-net-shape preforms in complex geometries and with minimum lead times.

Consistency, Reliability and Advanced Capabilities of Carbide Preform

We deliver custom and altered standard carbide blanks that provide consistency, reliability and advanced capabilities for your most demanding applications.

Our expertise enables us to produce carbide preforms in just about any shape you require in a wide range of hardness and density. These carbide preforms, which are near the final cutting tool shape, allow for major portions of carbide preforms to be removed while still in the green state.

Compared to the hard state, drilling of coolant holes, pre-fluting, and grinding different diameters are accomplished in a fraction of the time. We leave a minimal of amount of grind stock, which saves you grinding wheel life and increases machine capacity. All of these features can be designed into carbide preforms, saving you money.

Initially focused on the cutting tool industry, we supply carbide preforms for rotary cutting tools.

We also supplies gear cutters that are required for the production of spiral gears. Another product group comprises gear hobbing mill blanks that are used in the production of straight-tooth gears. Principal customers are drive-train manufacturers.

Straight cutting blades and rotary cutters for granulating extruded plastic materials are also part of our offering.

We specializing in carbide preform blanks for the rotary tooling industry Carbide Technologies can produce custom blanks to customer specifications in a wide variety of configurations.

We custom tungsten carbide preforms are guaranteed to perform for you.

Here, some of the uses of carbide preforms blanks is for cutting tools, EDM blanks, die and bushings, knives, punches, wear parts and special wear blanks. We are your one stop source for carbide preform blanks or anything for your blanks needs, let us be the place for your.

1 Blending

We manufacturing process begins with strict control of raw materials and precise blending to unique in-house recipes.

2 Testing

Samples of our grade powders are sintered and tested extensively in our Quality Control Lab prior to use in production. Tests are performed using state-of-the-art equipment by our experienced metallurgical quality control team.

3 Engineering

Our engineering team develops an accurate, computerized model of your specified carbide preform with our detailed CAD/CAM systems. Once engineered, the drawing can be linked to our CNC equipment for product consistency from start to finish. Repeat orders are quickly retrieved from the computer system.

4 Pressing

Powders are hydrostatically pressed, reducing billets and rounds by approximately 25%. Shrink factor is determined and the materials are tagged for shaping.

5 Shaping

We experienced machinists use diamond-tipped tooling to bore, grind, drill and turn to exact specified dimensions and tolerances. CNC equipment can be controlled through the CAD/CAM system.

6 Sintering

Precision carbide preforms are sintered in our programmable sinter hip and vacuum furnaces at temperatures from 2400˚F up to 2700˚F. Once sintered, invar plugs can be brazed in place if tapping is required.

7 Inspection

A dimensional & metallurgical inspection is performed before shipping.

8 Packaging

All carbide preforms are visually checked and packaged to specification.

Carbide preform is a kind of carbide rod blank in a special shape which is near the final cutting tool shape, customer can customize the carbide preform. The reason for a carbide preform exist is that the tungsten carbide is very hard after sintering, to do machining on a sintered tungsten carbide blank is very difficult, usually by grinding or slow wire cutting EDM, which are very slow and expensive. However, before sintering, the tungsten density is low, easy to be cut, chamfered, grooved, or trimmed to different shapes, then it is sintered to be a carbide preform with a shape close to final cutter shape, which saves lots of after-sintering machining time, cost and labor.

T shape carbide preform is a typical preform shape, which has a very big blade head end and small shank end, one or more steps on the outer diameter of a carbide rod.

Carbide preforms are customized base on customer’s drawing, sample, or final cutter shape.

We strive to ensure customer experience after product delivery and enhance the added value of our Valve Pin Mold, Plastic Pet Bottle Mould, Carbide Preform Tooling. We continue to improve the competitiveness of our main products, and strive to promote the implementation of the new round of strategic planning to achieve leapfrog development. Our company always takes the quality first, the user is supreme as the purpose, has the excellent product quality and the good prestige.

1. The design of hot runner system ensures evenly force, uniform heating.
2. Less energy cost and pressure lost.
3. Independent cavity control system ensures nozzle temperature fluctuates with <1℃.
4. Adopt imported heating devices, Germany Hotset.
5. Cavity, core, screw of steel adopt imported S136 from Sweden, with hardness up to HRC48-52 after heating treatment.
6. Using advanced mold design technology, cavity self-locks independent system and using high precision CNC system, each mold spare parts be inserted with durable parts, core, cavity and neck parts are easily exchangeable.

1 Blending

Our manufacturing process begins with strict control of raw materials and precise blending to unique in-house recipes. We manufactures a wide variety of grades covering all application requirements.

2 Testing

Samples of our grade powders are sintered and tested extensively in our Quality Control Lab prior to use in production. Tests are performed using state-of-the-art equipment by our experienced metallurgical quality control team.

3 Engineering

Our engineering team develops an accurate, computerized model of your specified carbide preform with our detailed CAD/CAM systems. Once engineered, the drawing can be linked to our CNC equipment for product consistency from start to finish. Repeat orders are quickly retrieved from the computer system.

4 Pressing

Powders are hydrostatically pressed, reducing billets and rounds by approximately 25%. Shrink factor is determined and the materials are tagged for shaping.

5 Shaping

We experienced machinists use diamond-tipped tooling to bore, grind, drill and turn to exact specified dimensions and tolerances. CNC equipment can be controlled through the CAD/CAM system.

6 Sintering

Precision carbide preforms are sintered in our programmable sinter hip and vacuum furnaces at temperatures from 2400˚F up to 2700˚F. Once sintered, invar plugs can be brazed in place if tapping is required.

7 Inspection

A dimensional & metallurgical inspection is performed before shipping.

8 Packaging

All carbide preforms are visually checked and packaged to specification.

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