Tungsten Carbide Cutting Tool Consumption Trend in Automobile Industry

Details: Category: Tungsten's News; Published on Tuesday, 28 October 2014 17:56

Tungsten carbide cutting tool ranks first among the cutting tools chosen by automobile manufacturers in China due to its high hardness, which perfectly meets the requirements of automobile parts materials. It almost accounts for about 64.1% of all cutting tools being used in the automobile industry.

The automobile industry adopts mass production and flow-line production, with relatively stable machining condition. It has very demanding requirements towards the cutting tools’ machining efficiency, service life and stability. In recent years, with the wide application of light-weight materials like aluminum alloy, compound materials, etc, in automobile manufacturing industry, tungsten carbide cutting tools have also found an increasing application in it.

The machining of modern automobile manufacturing industry and the cutting tool technology it adopts are all developing rapidly, and many advanced technologies have been applied. They are of great differences from those in the past in aspects like machining technology, cutting method, cutting tool structure, material and coating, etc. New cutting tool structure and new cutting blades with new-type cutting edge and geometry are developed. In order to improve productivity and reduce blade changing times, various kinds of tungsten carbide compound cutting tools are applied in automobile parts machining, which meets many special requirements of machining.