Cold Work Tool Steels
We deal with all products and variants of Cold Work Tool Steel such as D2, D3, 0-1, SKD-11, S-1. We are the leading dealers and supplier.
Cold work tool steels are essentially high carbon steels, which contain relatively low alloy additions of tungsten, manganese, chromium and molybdenum. These alloy additions increase hardenability, permitting oil quenching with less distortion than with the W series. These are relatively inexpensive steels, and their high carbon content produces adequate wear resistance for short run applications. It is used for all types of blanking and forming dies, gauges, collets, etc. Cold work steels fall into five groups: water hardening, oil hardening, medium alloy air hardening, high carbon-high chromium and shock resisting. As their name implies, these steels are used in low to medium temperature applications. Highly wear resistant due to the high volume of carbides in the microstructure.