Tungsten carbide can be used as a variety of cutting tools. Because of its high hardness and strong resist compression performance, tungsten carbide is one of the best material choices for cutting tools. The tungsten carbide cutting tools include carbide drill bits, small circular saw blades, carbide rotary burr and so on. As the material of cutting tools is the most widely used field for tungsten carbide.
The cemented carbide for mining accounts for about 30% of the total tungsten carbide production. Thanks to the high hardness, strong impact toughness, outstanding bending strength and excellent wear resistance,
carbide mining tools are usually applied in geological exploration drill bits, roller cone drills and coal cutters for petroleum and gas fields, engineering excavation road tools, percussion drilling in the building materials industry.
Under normal circumstances, the proportion used in the manufacturing of various molds accounts for about 8%, which includes carbide drawing dies, cold heading dies, cold punching dies, cold extrusion dies, hot forging dies and drawing mandrels. Usually, the cemented carbide applied for making molds is selected from medium and high cobalt, coarse grain grades.
The tungsten carbide wear parts include carbide nozzles, carbide balls, tungsten carbide valve seat & valve sleeves, carbide tire cleats, carbide guide rails and so on.
