Chipless forming calls for an orientation to innovation
The use of carbide for chipless forming and protection from wear is justified whenever particularly long service life is important for components or assemblies. In structural components, the special chemical and physical properties of carbide are exploited in order to ensure or improve particular functions.

Within the LMT Group, Boehlerit is active in this field, and offers a complete range of carbide types for these purposes. The term 'wear protection' covers a wide range of applications here. It includes cutting and stamping tools, shears for paper and steel strip, clamping jaws, nozzles, horseshoe stud inserts, grinding material and mill linings and the key elements of surgical instruments. The application of carbides has almost no limits in these fields. In comparison to tool steels, carbides achieve a useful life up to 20 times greater.

Bars, blanks and semi-finished products for precision tool manufacturers have a particularly high place at Böhlerit. It has been found that extremely fine grained carbide, with a cobalt content of 2-15% has particularly high performance in the manufacture of drills and shanked cutters. The HIP sintering procedure creates a particularly even, homogenous and pore-free micro-structure that guarantees high fracture strength, edge stability and bending strength. Drawing wires and profile strips is a forming procedure that has been known for decades. In this field, it is particularly important to choose the right type of carbide. Amongst more than 30 types, ranging from extremely fine grained carbide through to course grained carbide, Böhlerit undoubtedly has the right type for any application.