Tungsten carbide punches have extremely high hardness up to 92HRA, high corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and its coefficient of expansion are better than any other kind of steel, but it also has poor toughness. Therefore, to improve the performance of tungsten carbide punch we should improve its toughness aspects.
Carbide VS Steel
Steel alloy is remarkably less expensive. But how important is machines’ up time to you? You are perhaps spending about 1/3 of the cost on steel components for your machines compared with carbide punches. However, do you know how much time longer tungsten carbide lasts than steel? almost 100 times as often! So if one of the carbide punches costs $300 and a steel punch costs $100, for a two-week continuously working machine you are spending $300 for carbide. You are spending more than $10,000 for steel components! which would you choose?
Downtime
To service your stamping machine, you will be taking your machines offline several times a day. If tungsten carbide punch is used instead, you wouldn’t have to have your machinery down, no need to pay the service costs, and your productivity will be highly improved.
Tungsten Carbide Punch Specialist
We have been devoted to producing precision carbide parts, hardened steel and HSS round parts for 20 years. Our products cover precision carbide punch and die, carbide round parts, extrusion dies, carbide nozzles, precision ceramic parts, tool steel, and carbide soldered parts, steel round parts according to customers’ drawings. Our commitment is to service our customers with highly skilled technical support, high precision and quality products, fast delivery, and competitive prices.
