Tool Steel
Tool steel provides excellent hardness, wear resistance, and thermal stability, making it ideal for high-stress applications. Known for its toughness and durability, it can withstand heavy loads and high temperatures. It is easy to harden, machine, and polish, making it versatile for various industrial and manufacturing uses.
What Is Tool Steel?
Tool steel is a high-quality carbon alloy steel renowned for its hardness, toughness, and wear resistance. Composed primarily of iron, it contains elements such as tungsten, chromium, vanadium, and molybdenum, which enhance its heat resistance, strength, and durability.
Engineered for heavy-duty applications, it is used in cutting, shaping, and forming other materials. After heat treatment, it achieves high hardness, enabling tools to withstand high impact and abrasion without chipping or breaking.
Widely used in manufacturing, construction, and automotive industries, it is essential for making cutting tools, dies, molds, and machine parts.
Advantages and Applications
Tool steel’s unique combination of hardness, toughness, and wear resistance makes it indispensable in various industries. Its durability, ability to withstand high temperatures and resistance to deformation provide significant advantages, making it ideal for applications such as cutting tools, molds, and dies.
Advantages
- High Hardness
- Good Wear Resistance
- Suitable Toughness
- Heat Resistance
- Machinability
- Corrosion Resistance
- High Processing Accuracy
- Cost-Effective
- High Performance
- Versatility
Applications
- Machinery parts
- Core insert
- Cold forming tools
- Stamping dies
- Thread rolling dies
- Punches and chisels
- Extrusion dies
- Injection molds
- Cutting tools
- Manufacturing of steel pipes
Tool Steel CNC Machining Services
Tool steel is strong, durable, and highly wear-resistant, making it an excellent choice for demanding manufacturing projects. Its high hardness and resistance to abrasion and deformation allow it to excel in CNC machining applications, especially in tooling and die-making.
DEZE’s machine shop uses advanced CNC machine tools and EDM equipment to produce custom tool steel parts, including high-precision lathes, milling machines, grinders, and wire-cutting equipment. We work with a variety of tool steel grades, including A2, A3, D2, H13, O1, and S7, ensuring that we can meet the specific needs of industries such as automotive, aerospace, and industrial machinery.
As a reliable and cost-effective manufacturer, DEZE delivers high-precision tool steel components suitable for applications like cutting tools, molds, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
Tool Steel Forging Services
DEZE provides exceptional tool steel machining and forging services, employing advanced techniques to create high-quality, customized tool steel components. Our precision machining process enables the efficient production of complex designs, ensuring that each part adheres to strict quality standards.
We work with a range of tool steel grades, including A2, A3, D2, H13, O1, and S7, allowing us to meet the specific requirements of various industries, such as automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing.
As a trusted and cost-effective manufacturer, DEZE delivers precision-engineered tool steel parts with various finishing options, including heat treatment, nitriding, chrome plating, and oxidation, to fulfill your exact specifications.
Custom Tool Steel Parts
DEZE provides outstanding tool steel machining and fabrication services, specializing in the production of high-quality custom tool steel parts. We work with a variety of tool steel grades to deliver precision-engineered components tailored to your specific requirements.
Available Materials
Tool Steel A2
A2 tool steel offers excellent toughness and wear resistance, making it a popular choice for cold-work applications in CNC machining. Known for its air-hardening properties, it maintains good dimensional stability and withstands impact.
Tool Steel A3
A3, a high-carbon, high-alloy steel, delivers reliable wear resistance and toughness. It performs well in demanding environments, ensuring durability in CNC machining processes where strength and longevity are key.
Tool Steel D2
D2 is highly valued for its wear resistance and high compressive strength. As an air-hardening steel, it excels in maintaining a sharp edge and toughness, making it ideal for precision cutting tools and dies.
Tool Steel H13
H13 tool steel handles high temperatures effectively, combining hardness and toughness. Frequently used in hot work environments, it is resistant to thermal fatigue, making it a staple in CNC machining for molds and dies.
Tool Steel O1
O1 provides high wear resistance and dimensional stability due to its oil-hardening properties. Its machinability and toughness make it a versatile option for tools requiring precision and resilience.
Tool Steel S7
S7 is designed for shock resistance, excelling in applications requiring high-impact strength. Its blend of toughness and wear resistance allows it to handle demanding environments, making it suitable for punches and dies.
Frequently asked questions
Water-Hardening (W-series), Cold-Work (O, A, and D series), Shock-Resistant (S-series), Hot-Work (H-series), and High-Speed (M and T series).
Steel is a generic term for a metal alloy primarily composed of iron and carbon, while tool steel is a specific type of steel designed for making cutting tools, molds, and other applications requiring high hardness, wear resistance, and toughness. Tool steel often contains additional alloying elements like chromium, vanadium, or tungsten.
Tool steel is heat-treated through processes like quenching and tempering to achieve the desired hardness and toughness. Heat treatment enhances the material’s wear resistance and durability.
Choosing the right tool steel depends on your specific application, such as the type of material being worked on, the required toughness, wear resistance, and whether the tool will be exposed to high temperatures.