Tool Steel

Almost all objects we use every day have been produced from tool steel. A better durability of the tool can be achieved due to an intelligent use of the raw material which ensures an economic production and also a high productivity.

Hot work tool steels are helpful for the design of non cutting tools. They are used for die casting, continues casting and die forging. When using them at temperatures of more than 200 °C and also at changing thermal loads the structure needs to be stable that warm ductility, high temperature strengths and wear-resistance will not be negatively affected. Due to the fact that not all required characteristics are realizable in one kind of steel the selection needs to be effected according to the use of the tools. Herewith the chemical composition shows two alloy groups: WCrV steels and CrMoV steels.

There are also for the cold work steels more and more high demands. This results from modern production machines for optimizing of manufacturing processes as well as the continous rising demands on the quality of the manufactured products. The temperatures are different; normally under 200°C surface temperature. For achieving the best material's characteristics and also a long durability the coordination of the alloys is really important. Due to a different use of chrome, molybdenum, vanadium and tungsten the requested characteristics can be achieved with different steels. A distinction is drawn between cold work steels for cuts + cutting tools and cold work steels for stamping and piercing dies.

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