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News Release from: Uddeholm Tooling | Subject: Sleipner cold work tool steel
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2002
Tool steel resistance to cracking
improved
Shorter lead times demand more reliable tooling and more difficult work materials are pushing tool performance to the edge, which is why a Swedish company has improved tool steel characteristics.
Have you ever heard of Sleipner? It is an eight-legged horse in Nordic mythology But it is also a new cold work tool steel from Uddeholm Tooling
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 22 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Uddeholm often chooses the names of their products from Nordic mythology and not without reason.
The eight legs of Sleipner are quite normal, but the number makes the difference.
The tool steel Sleipner has these qualities too.
Each property is not extraordinary.
It is the number of good properties that make Sleipner an all-purpose tool steel to cope with the increased demands on today's tooling.
Shorter lead times demand more reliable tooling and more difficult work materials are pushing tool performance to the edge.
Sleipner can handle all these demands in ways that will satisfy both toolmakers and tool users.
The tool user's demands for reliability are intimately connected with the tool steel's good resistance to chipping and cracking.
The rather low resistance of the classical cold work tool steel D2 has been considerably improved with Sleipner.
The decrease in wear resistance has been compensated by a much extended working hardness.
The toolmaker looks for good machinability and grindability and he will find it in Sleipner thanks to the balanced chemistry and finer carbides.
Sleipner also permits trouble free wire EDM and surface coatings.
Versatility is the hallmark of Sleipner an all-purpose cold work tool steel with a number of good properties.
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 13 February 2002).
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