Cemented carbide is known for its hardness and high melting point. On the Mohs scale for testing hardness, cemented carbide receives a rating of nine, surpassed only by diamonds, which have a hardness of 10. This hardness makes cemented carbide very scratch-resistant. The melting point of cemented carbide is around 2,600 degrees Celsius. By itself, cemented carbide is not a naturally occurring material, it is only produced by combining the elements of tungsten and carbon.Cemented carbide has applications in industries such as mining, drilling and the wear parts.

1. Wear Parts
Cemented carbide components have various applications such as metal-cutting, mining, mineral and civil engineering, agriculture, food processing and textiles, just to name a few.

In aerospace industry, cemented carbide is chosen for such demanding applications as bearing parts for helicopters, fuel pumps and hydraulic components in jet engines. Cemented Carbide components are also chosen to resist the wear experienced in many field of food processing. Cemented Carbide nozzles and homogenizers are used in the dairy and beverage sectors, carbide crusher parts for cocoa production and cutting knives. Another example is recycling, transforming old scrap into secondary raw materials that can be fed back into the manufacturing process.

2. Automotive Components
Cemented Carbide was not commonly looked as an automotive material. In reality, Cemented Carbide and Cermets can reach a good application in automotive industry. Cemented Carbide components have been developing and supplying solutions for the automotive industry for decades. Cemented Carbide, related Cermets and carbide components provide the automotive industry tailored solutions from carbide tools to a wide variety of automotive applications.

Cemented Carbide provides resistance to high temperatures, corrosive environments, high compressive stress, fatigue and many other harsh conditions, so cemented carbide is already successfully used in a variety of automotive applications such as fuel pumps, fuel injectors, compressors and valve trains.

3. Cemented Carbide Rotary Cutters
Cemented carbide tools made with carbide components are both harder and stiffer with superior thermal conductivity compared with steel, which makes Cemented Carbide ideal for Carbide Rotary Cutters. It is possible to resharpen the Carbide Rotary Cutters several times during their lifetime. Cemented Carbide properties make the Carbide Rotary Cutter surpass conventional cutter performance. There is no deformation of the cutting edge and there is an increased cutting load compared to steel. There are no speed limitations due to the strong performance of the cutting edge.

4. Oil & Gas Applications
Equipments used in the Oil & Gas industry are subject to an aggressive environment that must not only resist erosion from high velocity fluids containing sand particles and other abrasive media, but it must also be resistant to corrosion damage. The combination of these two factors has caused this industry to migrate towards using more components that are made from Cemented Carbide. These components have natural properties that tend to resist such wear resistant mechanisms; In order to improve the wear characteristics of the Cemented Carbide grades used specifically for choke valves in this industry, multi-binder (Ni, Cr, Mo, and Co) corrosion/erosion resistant materials were introduced. Today, there are more than 100 choke control valves in service using these Cemented Carbide grades operating in subsea and other extreme environments. These materials have contributed to an improvement of up to 5 times service life when compared to conventional grades.

5. Rings and Bushing
Cemented carbide has good wear resistance, toughness, corrosion resistance, and resistance to thermal shock. The unique combination of all these material characteristics has made cemented carbide the most widely used material in carbide tools as pump seals and bearing in the sewage, mining and process sectors. Moreover, there is further potential to tailor Cemented Carbide for a vast range of environmental applications.

Chinatungsten Online offers a complete set of properties
-Excellent hardness
-guarantee outstanding wear, erosion and shock resistance,
-Robust surface
-Low friction coefficient and high mechanical strength
-High thermal conductivity and superior thermal resistance
-Resistant to handling and easy to assemble
-Support brazing, mechanical assembling, shrink fitting, press fitting and gluing

6. Sawing Applications
Metal Cutting
Cemented Carbide provides toolmakers with a productivity solution for different applications and cutting conditions, extending tool life and ease of tool fabrication. There are grades suitable for example for non-ferrous cutting applications, where the saw blade cuts through materials as UPVC and aluminum, as for interrupted cutting applications.

Wood Cutting
Cemented Carbide provides toolmakers with improved edge quality without reduction in brazing and grinding characteristics. A grade offering for Wood Cutting has been developed by extensive research and development into the cutting characteristics needed for circular saws. Chinatungsten Online can offer products to meet customers'specific requirements.