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Cold work tool steels comprise the family of tool steels with a combination of wear, toughness and compressive strength
characteristics permitting relatively heavy forming and cutting operations at room temperature. They may typically be used
for blanking or trim dies, forming dies, coining dies, drawing dies, punches, shear blades, knives, thread-rolling dies,
forming rolls, powder compaction tooling, or any other applications involving Metalforming. These grades may also
be used as molds for abrasive plastic molding applications.
We have organized these steels according to the properties required for different applications.
This section includes conventionally produced tool steels as well as a selection of CPM (Crucible Particle Metallurgy) tool steels commonly
used for high performance long run cold forming applications. These CPM grades offer enhanced wear resistance resulting in exceptional die
life with improved toughness. They are the highest wear resistant tools available.
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