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Advanced coating technology enables the tool substrate and hard film to be closely combined, giving the tool both high toughness and high hardness. The hard film surface of the tool has a lower coefficient of friction. All this greatly improves the performance of the tool.

With the revolutionary changes in modern manufacturing, emerging innovative technologies are giving the world unlimited possibilities

The machining industry based on CNC machine tools is shifting from traditional wet low-speed cutting to dry high-speed cutting.
In this field, the development of cutting tools is crucial. High cutting speed, high feed rate, high reliability, long life, high precision, and good cutting controllability are essential conditions for modern manufacturing cutting tools.
Traditional high-speed steel tools can no longer meet the existing needs due to their material limitations.
High hardness and high toughness are difficult to reconcile in tool materials.
Often, increasing hardness requires sacrificing toughness, and vice versa.

The development of coated tools has brought about a qualitative leap in the cutting performance of traditional tools, and high-speed dry cutting has now become possible.

Advanced coating technology enables the tool substrate and hard film to be closely combined, giving the tool both high toughness and high hardness. The hard film surface of the tool has a lower coefficient of friction. All this greatly improves the performance of the tool.
The hard thin film on the surface of the cutting tool has the following requirements:
①High hardness and good wear resistance;
②Chemically stable and does not react chemically with the workpiece material;
③Heat and oxidation resistance, low friction coefficient, and strong adhesion to the substrate.

Among hard coating materials, TiN is the most mature and widely used.
A thickness of only a few thousandths of a millimeter has brought about a qualitative leap in the tool.

Among hard coating materials, TiN is the most mature and widely used.
Previously, the usage rate of TiN-coated high-speed steel tools in developed countries accounted for 50%-70% of high-speed steel tools,
and the usage rate of some non-regrindable complex tools has exceeded 90%.

Mainly using two methods: "vacuum magnetron sputtering method" and "vacuum plasma plating process"

In the early days, PVD coatings all used the "vacuum evaporation method", the film layer was often uneven, and the bonding with the substrate was not strong enough. Later, the "vacuum magnetron sputtering method" and "vacuum plasma plating process" were developed, and the effect was very good. Now the tool surface coating mainly uses the latter two methods. Initially, PVD coatings were only used for high-speed steel tools, and the coating material was almost only TiN. The oxidation resistance of TiN coating is poor, and when the use temperature reaches 500 °C, the film layer is obviously oxidized and eroded. Due to the high technical requirements of modern metal cutting for tools, TiN coating cannot adapt to the existing processing environment.
Later, the coating process was improved, and various coating materials and multilayer coatings were developed, which have also been widely used on cemented carbide tools. The coating effect has made great progress compared to the past.