PCBN cutting insert
Fives Cinetic
Fives Cinetic's CITCO brand DIAPAX (PCD) and BORPAX (PCBN) cutting tools offer a cost-effective alternative to conventional cutting tool materials for high-metal removal rates, improved finishes, and extended tool life in maching ferrous (BORPAX) and non-ferrous (DIAPAX) workpieces. These superabrasive-based materials can be used in a wide range of tools including drills, reamers, gun drills, piston and standard groove tools. CITCO technicians can also incorporate them in wear parts and intricate form tools.
DIAPAX PCD tools can provide up to 300 times the life of carbide machining non-ferrous and abrasive non-metallic workpieces in turning, boring, facing, forming, milling, grooving, reaming, parting, and fly-cutting operations, and provide similar improvements when used as wear parts.
BORPAX solid PCBN inserts provide similar performance improvements over carbide in machining ferrous materials. They are made of very fine, carefully graded CBN crystals in a sintered ceramic matrix, and provide usable cutting edges on both top and bottom surfaces.
Both materials are available as standard round inserts in a variety of sizes, and both can be custom fabricated in a wide range of sizes and profiles to meet specific application requirements. Standard tools are typically delivered in 10 weeks or less.
