Carbide, a material that can be called the "king of alloys", has emerged in the industrial field because of its excellent properties. It has a wide range of applications covering several key areas, let’s take a look at what makes carbide great and its common uses in industry.
- Cutting Tools: Craftsmen with Incomparable Precision
Carbide has become the material of choice for manufacturing a wide variety of cutting tools due to its high hardness and excellent compression resistance. Whether it is a drill, milling cutter or turning tool, carbide can accurately cut various materials, improving the accuracy and efficiency of workpiece processing.
- Geological mining tools: golden tools for exploration
In the field of geological and mining exploration, cemented carbide shows its outstanding qualities such as high hardness, good impact toughness, good wear resistance and excellent red hardness. Therefore, it is widely used in geological exploration drill bits, down-the-hole drills for oil and gas fields, and cones. It has become a golden tool for exploration in fields such as drills, coal cutter picks, engineering road excavation tools, and impact drills in the building materials industry.
- Mold materials: the art of meticulous craftsmanship
As a material for molds, such as wire drawing dies, cold heading dies, cold punching dies, cold extrusion dies, hot forging dies, and drawn tube mandrels, cemented carbide plays a role in craftsmanship. Medium and high cobalt and medium and coarse grained carbide grades were selected to make the mold, ensuring the accuracy and durability of the mold.
- Wear-resistant parts: Durable guardians
Wear-resistant parts made of carbide include carbide nozzles, carbide balls, valve seats and sleeves, logging parts, valve trims, tire studs, alloy guide rails, etc. With their excellent wear resistance and durability, these parts have become the guardians of various mechanical equipment, ensuring the long-term operation of the equipment.
- Structural parts: mechanical support
Carbide is used to manufacture rotating sealing rings, lathe heads, grinder spindles, bearings and other structural parts to provide solid support for mechanical equipment. Among them, the main function of cemented carbide sealing ring parts is to prevent external substances such as liquid, gas or dust from entering the interior of mechanical equipment, and to prevent internal fluids or media from leaking out.
In addition to the above five major applications, carbide has many other uses, such as making watch chains, watch cases, zipper heads, etc.