To help answer that question, well-known cutting tooling manufacturer—Kyocera Precision Tools—ran a series of cutting tests to see which combination of cermet or carbide materials and coatings would ...

The Texas plant had heard from another of their plants just how good cermets are and he wanted to switch from carbide. He was also cautious. When he got the saws he inspected them under a microscope.

Cermet saw tips are TiCN (Titanium Carbonitride). The Cermets are composed entirely of TiC (Titanium Carbide) and TiN (Titanium Nitride). These are the same materials used to coat ordinary grades of ...

The titanium-carbide-based cermet substrate with the cobalt-nickel binder, is extremely wear-resistant. The grade includes an exceptionally hard PVD AlTiCrN multilayer coating, which is very even and ...