In the mechanical tooling industry, the combination of hardness and fracture toughness represents a critical balance for ensuring durable, reliable, and high-performance tools, especially in interrupted cutting operations or applications involving high mechanical stress; performance of our Grade KZ20 The Importance of Fracture Toughness Fracture toughness measures a material’s ability to resist the propagation of […]
Starting from the sintered raw state, hardmetal parts can be finished according to the desired shape, size, flatness and finish of the surface. Such operations are performed by grinding with specific diamond grinding wheels or by applying the EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) technique. Hardmetal Grinding Conceptually, the grinding operation is outlined in the image below: [...]
3 ways to cut hardmetal try to explain how cut the hardest and most resistant materials in the world. Indeed, only a few materials manage to get through it, one of which being diamond. Ranked at the top the Mohs scale, diamond is the hardest material in existence. Consequently, the only suitable material for cutting [...]
What is Wear? To understand the wear resistance of hardmetals we have to know that all surfaces of industrial components have a certain degree of roughness. In tribological terms, this is an important initial feature which actually means that when two surfaces slide against each other, they come into contact in line with the small [...]