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Tungsten Carbide

Tungsten carbide is a high-performance material known for its exceptional hardness, durability, and wear resistance. Tungsten is stronger than steel and capable of withstanding extreme temperatures and heavy use, making it an essential choice for cutting tools, dies, and wear-resistant components. Its superior strength and resistance to deformation ensure longer tool life, reduced downtime, and increased efficiency across several industries. With its unmatched toughness and precision, tungsten carbide is the ideal solution for demanding manufacturing applications. Raven Carbide has years of experience creating preforms, bushings, munitions, dies, and many more features from Tungsten!

Tungsten Carbide Grades

Grade Description
3% Grade
Extreme Wear, Very Light Impact. Used for heavy wear applications like fine wire dies and sand blasting nozzles.
6% Grade
Excellent Wear, Light Impact. Used for high wear extrusion dies as well as in cutting blades.
9% Grade
High Wear, Light Impact. Used for draw dies, extrusion dies, compacting dies and can forming dies.
12% Grade
Good Wear, Medium Impact. Used for stamping dies, stamping punches, extrusion dies and can tooling.
15% Grade
Good Wear, Medium Impact. Used for scroll dies, stamping dies, carbide punches and draw mandrels.
17% Grade
Medium Wear, Medium to Heavy Impact. Used for coining dies, form rolls and heavy punching operations.
20% Grade
Heavy Impact. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies, blanking dies and crushing hammers.
23% Grade
Heavy Impact, Lower Wear. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies, blanking dies and nail dies.
25% Grade
Severe Impact and Shock. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies and nail dies when cracking is a problem.
30% Grade
Extreme Impact. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies and nail dies in the highest impact operations.

With premium carbide ammunition dies and tooling you save time, money and hassle with not having to change out your dies as frequently. With Raven carbide ammunition dies you get the best carbide grades, tolerances and polish. This means both you don’t have to pay as much to change the dies out and don’t lose money while production is down for changing out the lines. Your success is our success.

Carbide Facts:

Tungsten Carbide is approximately three times as hard and dense as steel.

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How do we do it?

With premium carbide ammunition dies and tooling you save time, money and hassle with not having to change out your dies as frequently. With Raven carbide ammunition dies you get the best carbide grades, tolerances and polish. This means both you don’t have to pay as much to change the dies out and don’t lose money while production is down for changing out the lines. Your success is our success.

Raven Carbide Die Manufactures:

  • Cylindrical Carbide Punches
  • Pilot Punches
  • Carbide Ejection Pins
  • Carbide Ejector Punches
  • Carbide Forming Punches
  • Specialty Punches
  • Custom Carbide Punches
  • Collar Punches

Try out our tungsten carbide punches and let us know if we should change our name to Raven Carbide Die and Punches! To increase your productivity and performance contact Raven Carbide Die today at 248-835-5874 or email your prints and requirements to sales@ravencarbidedie.com.

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