Diamond Tooling
What is Diamond Tooling?
Polycrystalline Diamond, commonly referred to as PCD, is a synthesized, extremely tough inter-grown mass of randomly or orientated diamond crystals bonded to a carbide substrate.
This composite material combines the hardness, abrasion and high-thermal conductivity of diamond with the braze-ability of carbide.
Why use PCD?
High-volume production operations, which do few setups, realize the greatest advantage.
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The initial cost of PCD Tooling is much higher than carbide. However, greater value is realized overall by savings through the following:
- • Downtime reduction
- • Operating cost reduction
- • Scrap reduction
- • Noise reduction
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The value of PCD:
- • Proper abrasion resistance characteristics to handle a variety of wood species as well as man-made materials
- • Extended tool life in natural wood
- • Tools maintain their dimensions much more accurately over their working lifetime
- • CNC routers
- • Edge-banders
- • Panel saws
- • Tenoners
- • Moulders
- • Shapers
Best suited applications: