Carbide in India

CARBIDE

Carbide is a general term used for Tungsten carbide (WC) which is an inorganic chemical compound containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms.There is a growing popularity of tungsten carbide rings with some consumers calling the material just tungsten.

In its most basic form, carbide is a fine gray powder, but it can be pressed and formed into shapes for use in industrial machinery, cutting tools,abrasives, other tools and instruments, and jewelry. Carbide is approximately three times stiffer than steel, with a Young's modulus of approximately 550 GPa,[2] and is much denser than steel or titanium. It is comparable with corundum (-Al2O3) or sapphire in hardness and can only be polished and finished with abrasives of superior hardness such as cubic boron nitride and diamond amongst others, in the form of powder, wheels, and compounds. In India Widia brand was very popular in the field of hardmetals like tungsten carbide. They made carbide for wire drawing, bar drawing, cold forging industry.Their carbide was of very good quality . Apart from Widia, Sandvik was also a very good supplier of carbide. Sandvik is not manufacturing wire drawing carbide pellets in India. The pellets are to be imported from Sweden. On the other hand Widia was acquired by Kennametal in Europe and India. Other acquisitions that expand Kennametals capabilities to better serve its customers worldwide include Conforma Clad Inc., a leading provider of engineered components that deliver premium wear solutions, and Extrude Hone Corporation, a supplier of market leading engineered component process technology. In India,now Kennametal is the major supplier for good quality carbide. The brand Kennametal itself suggest excellent quality. Electronica is also another company which deal in hard metals. Now a few companies are also coming up in the manufacturing of sintered tungsten carbide.