H.B. Carbide, a provider of carbide blanks and pre-forms, has been named 2023 Supplier of the Year by Raven Carbide Die, New Boston, Michigan. This is in recognition of H.B.’s customer service and consistent on-time delivery of high-quality pre-forms, which has played a significant role in Raven Carbide Die’s operations and success.
“This recognition means a lot to the entire H.B. Carbide team,” said Jon Wyniemko, H.B. Carbide global sales director. “It is truly rewarding to know that our efforts pay off in helping our customers achieve and exceed their goals.”
“H.B. Carbide’s role as a collaborating partner has been a key factor in enhancing our competitiveness and allowing us to manufacturer premium carbide dies and tooling, as well as helping us better serve our customers,” said Dan Raven, owner of Raven Carbide Die. “In light of this achievement, we look forward to further strengthening our partnership.”
H.B. Carbide has partnered with Raven Carbide Die since 2017, supplying the company with carbide die blanks used in the design and manufacture of cold forming dies, stamping dies and extrusion dies.
RAVEN CARBIDE DIE (RCD)
RCD was founded in 2010 by Terry Raven, specializing in precision carbide dies for cold heading, cold forming and impact extruding applications. It offers dies made to any carbide grade and partners with customers to help in choosing a grade that provides the most efficiency for each application. Its commitment to customers is to supply long-lasting dies and highly competitive rates. www.ravencarbidedie.com
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.