During those snowy area, it has always been a trouble for cars running on roads covered by the snow until the winter tires came out, which has tungsten carbide studs on the tire. The following is an article from John Phillips: Winter tires? Yes, Have Some—Please

Now that I live at the end of a 1.75-mile gravel driveway cut rudely into the side of a mountain, I’ve gladly installed winter tires—don’t even think of calling them “snow tires”—on five different SUVs in the last 13 months. Four sets were attached to C/D’s long-termers, and one set of Toyo Observe GSi-5s now adorns my wife’s Toyota RAV4. The Toyos look like the raised hackles on a hyena.

Work is underway on a new facility in Depew that will provide tungsten as a raw material to two companies, including one in Japan.

Last November, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. announced the start of tungsten refining and scrap recycling operations in the U.S.

Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc., a subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric, and New York Tungsten LLC, a subsidiary of Buffalo Tungsten Inc., a tungsten powder producer in Depew, established a joint venture company, Niagara Refining LLC, a hydrometallurgy plant that will produce tungsten trioxide - referred to as WO3 - from raw ore as well as recycled material.

Niagara Refining President Roger Showalter said construction of the new plant at 5661 Transit Road in Depew, located at the same facility as Buffalo Tungsten, has been underway for two years.

They've begun commissioning some equipment and expect startup in April. The plant won't be completed, he said, until later this year.

He described the process that will take place there as using chemistry to refine metals.

"We'll be processing metals in a chemical (solution) form," Showalter said. "We're processing raw materials, metal in a chemical form. You dissolve it, and put it in water-based solution and treat it to remove impurities."

Showalter's family owns Buffalo Tungsten which, according to its website, dates to 1987. Buffalo Tungsten employs around 60, and Niagara Refining about 30. Showalter said he anticipates hiring around 20 more in the coming months.

Tungsten is the primary raw material in carbide cutting tools and is categorized as a rare metal. In the past, Sumitomo Electric has mostly relied upon import for its tungsten supply. Since tungsten is found in only a limited number of countries, and its supply is highly volatile.

Showalter said the joint venture was necessary because both Buffalo Tungsten and Sumitomo wanted the same raw material, but wanted to do so independently of foreign producers.

Until the joint venture, Sumitomo had been importing WO3 from China and other countries to produce tungsten carbide powder as a raw material for carbide tools. It has also been engaged in tungsten scrap recycling at their Toyama, Japan plant since 2011. With the start of the new Depew operation, Sumitomo Electric will be able to produce raw materials for tungsten by refining tungsten ore from tungsten mines, and recycling scrap collected from the market.

Sumitomo Electric will accelerate its activities to facilitate a stable supply of tungsten raw materials, utilizing WO3 production at Niagara Refining and its own tungsten carbide powder production.

According to Sumitomo's website, doing so will allow them to control the supply chain from raw materials all the way to the finished product, which will make the company more competitive.


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Maddock Construction Equipment LLC has a new addition to the Backhoe Mill line of tungsten carbide milling attachments. The EM48 attachment has a 48 in. (122 cm) cutting width, 11 in. (28 cm) cutting depth and can be pre-set to cutting depths from flush to full depth in ½ in. (1.3 cm) increments.

The EM48 is powered by the excavator hydraulic system and gives the operator clear view of the work area. It uses standard ¾ in. (1.9 cm) shank tungsten carbide cutter bits and can cut asphalt, concrete and rock, such as limestone. Its ability to cut above and below grade allows the EM48 to cut walls and in trenches. An optional water spray system directs small water streams into the drum housing to help control dust.

Hind High Vacuum (HHV) has developed a Tungsten Carbide (WC) tools recycling plant.

Nagarjun Sakhamuri, Managing Director of HHV, said: “HHV has been designing, developing and commissioning tungsten carbide tools recycling systems for global tooling leaders for more than two decades. This is a major accomplishment for HHV and our team at Bangalore as it is made with in-house engineering and design.”

HHV, established in 1965 at Bangalore to develop Indian self-reliance in high vacuum technology, has been involved in the design, development and manufacture of off-the-shelf and customised equipment and products based on vacuum science and technology.

“The advancement in power metallurgy has led to the development of high performance special tools made of tungsten carbide. These tools are used in a variety of applications like drilling, cutting, boring,” Sakhamuri said.


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Hardide Coatings has appointed Ioan Jones as laboratory manager and Oliver Jones as pre-treatment specialist, part of its tungsten carbide team.

As laboratory manager of Hardide Coatings, Ioan Jones will focus on analysis, development and improvement of existing production processes, as well as new procedures and applications for Hardide coatings. Joining from Norma UK, he has an extensive background in metallurgy.

Oliver Jones has experience in developing plating processes. His pre-treatment specialist role at Hardide Coatings will include creating new pre-treatment methods and improving and adapting the existing processes to new types of steel and alloys.

“We are pleased to welcome Ioan and Oliver; their skills will be a great addition to the laboratory and they will play an important part in the advancement of our surface engineering offering going forward,” said Hardide plc CEO Philip Kirkham.

Hardide Coatings recently developed an innovative coating for TSP (thermally stable polycrystalline) diamonds to extend the life and improve the performance of drilling tools operating in extremely abrasive environments. The company has also solved the hard chrome plating problem with Hardide-A, which meets the EU and US environmental standards that will soon see toxic hard chrome plating restricted or banned.


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Hardide Coatings, the provider of advanced surface coating technology, has made two key appointments to bolster its team focused on developing tungsten carbide based engineering solutions.

Ioan Jones takes up the post of laboratory manager and Oliver Jones has been brought in as pre-treatment specialist. The duo will complement the current team of 29 staff, bringing additional metallurgy and chemistry expertise to the company.

As laboratory manager, Ioan will focus on analysis, development and improvement of existing production processes, as well as new procedures and applications for Hardide coatings. Joining from Norma UK, he has an extensive background in metallurgy and has previously held positions with ASAMS Ltd, Aero Engine Controls, and spent thirty years in nuclear research with AWE Aldermaston.

Oliver joins from MacDermid Limited with experience in developing plating processes, following completion of an MSc Chemistry last year. His pre-treatment specialist role at Hardide Coatings will include creating new pre-treatment methods and improving and adapting the existing processes to new types of steel and alloys. Pre-treatment is a vital part of the production route for Hardide coatings.

Hardide Coatings, provider of advanced surface coating technology, has made two key appointments to bolster its team focused on developing tungsten carbide based engineering solutions.

Ioan Jones takes up the post of laboratory manager and Oliver Jones has been brought in as pre-treatment specialist. The duo will complement the current team of 29 staff, bringing additional metallurgy and chemistry expertise to the company.

Today, Kahtoola, a leading innovator in outdoor footwear traction, proudly announces the launch of their newest product - NANOspikes™ footwear traction, with tungsten carbide studs under the bottom.

Created specifically with runners in mind, NANOspikes™ offer lightweight, trim, durable and comfortable traction that easily slips over any running shoe; making it possible to jog, sprint, train and walk securely in any weather condition.

"That was on one of our standard KASTOtec AC5 machines, designed for cutting with tungsten carbide-tipped (TCT) blades. We also make a high-performance KPC variant that incorporates two spring-loaded tensioners to guide the tungsten carbide tipped blade on the return side. This suppresses vibration even more, enabling an increase in production of between 15 and 30%, as well as extending blade life further.

Two new members of the family management team visited customers in the UK during December 2013. Stephanie and Jonathan Riegel saw the company's sawing machines and automated industrial warehouses in action in manufacturing and stockholding facilities from Yorkshire down to Birmingham and across to Cambridgeshire. They were accompanied by Ernst Wagner, managing director of Kasto's subsidiary in Milton Keynes.

The couple recently joined the board of Kasto group, along with Nicole and Sönke Krebber, also sixth-generation members, and Ruth Stolzer, wife of sole managing partner Armin Stolzer, who has run the company for the past 25 years. Dieter Heyl is the director in charge of production and Valentin Meier heads design and R&D.

Turnover at the German parent company remained stable at around €100 million, only slightly lower than in 2012 when one very large order for an automated warehouse was taken from the Bavarian uPVC window and door manufacturer Rehau. Business is increasing in many parts of the world, notably Australia, China, Singapore and Egypt. The number of employees is unchanged at 600, 10% of whom are apprentices, reflecting the policy of many German mittelstand manufacturing companies (medium sized, typically privately owned firms).

The group's global storage system deliveries continue to be around twice the value of its sawing machines sales. In the UK, Kasto has delivered six big automated warehouses in the last decade, plus around 20 smaller storage systems.

However, Mr Wagner says Britain needs to avoid falling behind other industrialised nations when it comes to automation. More than 1,400 Kasto automatic storage and retrieval systems for long stock and sheet have been sold around the world, but only a tiny fraction of these are in the UK.

Another indication of the reticence of British firms to embrace automation, he offers, is the slow acceptance of robotics associated with sawing systems. There are hardly any examples in the UK at the moment, whereas in Germany, central Europe and the USA in particular, such systems are used widely for sorting cut pieces, deburring, feeding material to machine tools, and more.

The company's top-end KASTOtec bandsaws are the main driver for growth on the sawing side of the business, with the message that such machines lower cost per cut as a result of their very high performance via tungsten carbide tipped blades. In 2013, however, the issue of minimising vibration has come to the fore, Mr Wagner says.

Vibration reduces tool life and also that of the machine, lowers productivity, raises noise levels and negatively impacts accuracy and surface finish. So now when Mr Wagner is asked by potential customers why they should buy Kasto bandsaws, he points towards the many features of the company's saws that help to minimise vibration, increasing output and reducing customers' ongoing expenditure on tooling.

"Obviously everyone says that they make a rigid machine, but we were able to prove the superiority of Kasto's bandsaws and vibration management recently during comparative trials carried out for a stockholder.

"Using identical feeds and speeds to those on a competitor's bandsaw when cutting 305 mm diameter Inconel, we achieved 55% higher output and three times the tungsten carbide blade life.
 

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