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Providing the Competitive Edge

for Over 50 Years
Customers with demanding applications
around the world have made Carbidie their
supplier of choice for the widest assortment
of preformed and unfinished tools, dies, die
sections and components made from tungsten
carbide, including grades with submicron
size particles.
Carbidie’s specially engineered tungsten
carbide components offer unsurpassed wear
properties. In fact, you can count on high
quality Carbide parts to last a minimum of
10 times longer than steel in most applications.

Unmatched Manufacturing
EDM PREFORMS
Capability
Carbidie components are engineered to
provide optimum levels of performance and
dependability. Our wide assortment of more
PRODUCTS FOR DIVERSIFIED APPLICATIONS than 30 performance-proven grades assures
that you’ll get the right grade for the right job.
• Compacting • Seal Rings And now, Carbidie offers the revolutionary
• Drawing • Container Tooling CD-KR466 grade that offers superior resistance
• Forming Dies • Slitter Knives to electrolytic attack during EDM, provides
• Stamping Dies • Rod Mill Rolls 100 times better corrosion resistance, and
outstanding post-EDM mechanical properties.
• Cold Forming Tools • Fluid Flow Control
Our flexible manufacturing capability allows
• Impact Tools • EDM Blanks
us to handle everything from the simplest,
• Wear Parts • Nozzles one-piece part order to custom fabrication of
the most complex shapes.

ROTARY TOOLS WEAR PARTS CONTAINER TOOLING

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Proven Performance Worldwide

Demanding applications require wear parts
of exceptional performance. Our tooling
delivers long-life and maintains design
tolerance through multiple-use cycles.
As part of the worldwide Kennametal
Engineered Products Group, Carbidie’s
applications engineers bring the resources
of Kennametal and its global leadership in
complex metallurgy and material science
together to help solve our customers’ most
complex wear and performance problems.
Working in partnership with the
Kennametal Technology Center, we also have
the capabilities to develop and test new
tungsten carbide grades that are tailored to
your specific needs. METAL STAMPING & FORMING

Deliveries When You Want Them

Because Carbidie formulates its own
proprietary grades and controls manufacturing NEW CORROSION-RESISTANT GRADE
and quality every step of the way, you can be Carbidie, working in collaboration with the engineers at
assured that your order will be available when Kennametal Research & Development, introduce the
you want it. Next Generation in corrosion-resistant grades: CD-KR466.
Most parts ship within seven to 10 days • Resists electrolytic attack and chemical leaching
following receipt of your order. We offer during the EDM process
48-hour emergency part replacement service • Provides 100 times better corrosion resistance than
on many of our custom preformed blanks, with standard tungsten carbide materials
expedited overnight delivery around the world. • Potentially increases productivity in EDM processing
by decreasing the number of trim/finish cuts
The Wear Parts Experts • Provides superior post-EDM
mechanical properties
At Carbidie, we strive to offer our customers
outstanding performance and value in
everything we do.
Our strict adherence to uncompromising
design standards and rigorous quality
control procedures through every step of
the manufacturing process has enabled
Carbidie products to set industry benchmarks
for cost-effective product performance and
field service.

COMPACTION TOOLING FLUID FLOW

CONTROL
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Kennametal EPG — Carbidie

425 Arona Road
Irwin, PA 15642
Phone: 800/227-2434 or 724/864-5900
Fax: 724/864-2443
www.carbidie.com

Kennametal EPG — Boride Products

2879 Aero Park Drive
Traverse City, MI 49686
Phone: 800/662-2131 or 231/946-2100
Fax: 800/662-2132 or 231/946-3025 Kennametal World Headquarters, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
www.boride.com

Kennametal EPG — Carmet

205 North 13th Street
Rogers, AK 72757 EPG IS COMMITTED TO BEING A
Phone: 800/693-2706
Fax: 800/694-5389 or 479/621-4727 GLOBAL LEADER OF ENGINEERED
www.carmet.com
WEAR SOLUTIONS THROUGH ADVANCED
Kennametal EPG — Kennametal Specialty Products (KSP) MATERIALS, INNOVATIVE DESIGN
200 Chestnut Ridge Road
Latrobe, PA 15650 TECHNOLOGY AND AN UNYIELDING
Phone: 800/392-8141
Fax: 724/539-5802 DEDICATION TO EXCEEDING OUR
www.kmtspecialtyproducts.com
CUSTOMERS’ EXPECTATIONS.
Kennametal EPG — Tungsten Carbide
Manufacturing (TCM)
23035 Commerce Drive
Farmington, MI 48335
Phone: 800/782-1374
Fax: 248/471-9127
www.tcmrod.com

The Wear Parts Experts

Your engineered wear parts solution is at
epgquotes@kennametal.com

Kennametal, Carbidie and design, EPG and design, and CD-KR466 are trademarks of
Kennametal Inc., or its subsidiaries and are used as such herein.

©2004 by Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, Pa. All rights reserved.

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