H.B. Carbide Company delivers custom and altered standard carbide blanks that provide consistency, reliability and advanced capabilities for your most demanding applications.
Our expertise enables us to produce carbide preforms in just about any shape you require in a wide range of hardness and density. These preforms, which are near the final cutting tool shape, allow for major portions of carbide to be removed while still in the green state. Compared to the hard state, drilling of coolant holes, pre-fluting, and grinding different diameters are accomplished in a fraction of the time. We leave a minimal of amount of grind stock, which saves you grinding wheel life and increases machine capacity. All of these features can be designed into preforms, saving you money.
Additional, threaded preforms are available without additional lead times. Threading can help to eliminate cracking and other issues associated with traditional brazing operations. Threaded applications include:
H.B. Carbide’s experienced specialists are prepared and committed to support and assist you in your decision making process to achieve optimized solutions, from grade selection to preform blank design.
Advanced near net shape preform solutions
Solid and coolant-through capabilities
Pre-fluted blanks
Large diameter and extended overall length
Die and bushing blanks
Centerless and between centers OD grinding
Flow control products
Program file sharing
H.B. Carbide Company delivers custom and altered standard carbide blanks that provide consistency, reliability and advanced capabilities for your most demanding applications.
Excellent wear properties, abrasion resistance, medium grade, general purpose grade for cutting tools, drills, endmills, and reamers for finishing and semi-finishing and wear parts with little impact, EDM blanks, seal rings and knives.
Extremely hard material, high abrasion resistance, micro grain size grade, for finishing machining cutting tools, drills, endmills, reamers, and wear parts, with very little or no shock, EDM blanks, wire guides and sand blast nozzles.
Extremely hard material, high abrasion resistance, ultra-fine grain size grade, for finish machining cutting tools, drills, endmills, reamers, and wear parts, with very little or no shock, EDM blanks, wire guides, sand blast nozzles.
Exceptional performance in punch applications, Heat-resistant steels, Stainless steels, Non-ferrous metal alloys
Exceptional toughness/wear properties, Ideal for deep hole drilling
Bimodal grain structure offering excellent wear properties, Ideal for deep hole drilling
High Impact forming applications, Header dies, draw dies, stamping die details, Thread rolling, Ammunition dies
Med-/High-impact forming applications, Header dies, draw dies, stamping die details, Fastener forming dies, Ammunition dies
Low impact/light shock resistance, Capability for wide variety of forming applications, Ammunition dies, Light stamping
Steels, SS, non-ferrous varieties forming applications, Light stamping carbide die and nib deep draw, Fine blanking stamping dies, Ammunition dies
Excellent thermal cycling properties, Optimal braze adhesion, Non-cutting grade, Good toughness characteristics
Excellent wear properties, micro grain size grade, general purpose cutting tool grade for semi-finishing and finishing, drilling, endmills, reamers, stamping dies, punches, knoves and all types of cutting tools, will withstand slight shock, EDM blanks.
High wear, low to medium impact, micro grain size grade, for cutting tools, dies, knives, punches, rough tools, will withstand slight shock, EDM blanks, crush rolls, form rolls, coining dies.