Mi-Tech Tooling, Inc., a cutting insert expert for the oil and gas industry in the USA, and the coating experts from CemeCon, Inc. in Horseheads, N.Y. have been working together for many years.

Electrically conductive, temperature-resistant and a good heat conductor, dimensionally stable, lightweight and more – graphite has numerous positive properties.

New high-performance materials, the transition from combustion engines to alternative drive concepts, high innovation and cost pressure – in order to master these and future challenges, machining companies and tool manufacturers must identify and exploit optimization potential.

The quality of coatings and thus of coated precision tools depends to a large extent on the optimum interlocking of all necessary process steps.

Silicon (silicon dioxide) is literally a dime a dozen. The earth’s crust consists of about 25.8 percent silicon by mass.