Tungsten carbide powder

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Overview
Kennametal supplies graded ready-to-press (RTP) powders produced by automated reduction, carburization, milling and spray drying. These RTP powders are intended for production pressing and downstream sintering/processing in carbide tooling and wear applications.

Heritage & Manufacturing
Kennametal leverages over 80 years of tungsten and tungsten-carbide manufacturing experience, combining metallurgical know-how and production controls to deliver reproducible powder batches.

Product families

• Powders for Metal Forming: graded, spray-dried RTP powders for carbide metal-forming tools, dies and parts with binder and inhibitor variants.
• Powders for Metal Cutting: RTP powders tailored for cutting tool manufacture with binder and inhibitor options by application.
• Powders for Wear Components: RTP powders for wear-resistant parts across industries, with grades adapted to application demands.
• Tungsten Metal Powders: tungsten powders blended with copper or nickel matrices to create pseudo-alloys; custom blends, particle cuts and additives per customer specification.

Applications

• Carbide metal-forming tools, dies and parts
• Carbide metal-cutting tools
• Wear-resistant components for mining, oil & gas and heavy industry

Manufacturing processes & quality

• Automated reduction
• Carburization
• Milling
• Spray drying (spray-dried, graded RTP powders)
• Produced under strict quality-control guidelines to reduce cross-contamination and improve reproducibility

Availability & documentation
Datasheets and product literature are available for major powder families (Powders for Metal Forming, Powders for Metal Cutting, Powders for Wear Components, Tungsten Metal Powders).

Technical specifications

• Form: ready-to-press (graded) powders, spray-dried
• Grade options: varying binder compositions and grain growth inhibitors
• Customization: blends, particle cuts and additives made to customer specification
• Intended uses: pressing and subsequent sintering to produce carbide tooling, dies and wear parts