Cold work steel mould is mainly used in the manufacture of blanking dies, stamping dies, cold extrusion dies and tensile dies. The main performance requirements for cold work steel mould are anti-wear performance, anti-bounce angle performance, high-temperature hardness stabilization ability, and good processability.

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Common cold work steel mould currently on the market are as follows.
Low alloy cold work die steel, its representative models are: 1.2510, DF2, O1. The characteristics of this type of steel are: abrasion resistance, high temperature hardness stability is poor, but resistance to jumping angle is better. Because of its low cost, it is widely used in the production of cold-working molds with small batches. Such as thin-material single-stroke dies.
High-carbon high-chromium cold-working die steel. This steel type is the most common steel type in the market, also known as chrome steel series.Representative models are: Cr12, Cr12MoV, SKD11, D2. The characteristics of this type of steel are: wear resistance, high temperature and hardness stability. Due to the high nitrogen content, the steel structure after heat treatment contains a large amount of eutectic carbides, so the toughness is poor, that is, the anti-bounce angle performance is poor. It is widely used in cold-working molds with large production batches, which require high wear resistance but are lightly impacted. Such as: continuous punching die, punching die with low hardness.
High toughness and high wear resistance cold work steel mould. Because it is with excellent performance in all aspects. This steel has been collectively referred to as the universal cold work die steel in the market. The representative model is DC53. The characteristics of this type of steel are: the abrasion resistance is twice that of SKD11, the high-temperature hardness stability is stable, and the toughness is also twice that of SKD11, which means that it has good anti-bounce angle performance. It is mainly used for some cold work dies such as cold heading dies. Thick plate punching dies require both good wear resistance and high toughness. Such as: high-speed stamping dies, stainless steel stamping dies, stretching dies.

In short, different raw materials of cold work steel mould have different performance requirements.  But now the cold-work die steel market is crudely manufactured and fake and inferior. There are 5-7 quality grades of the same model. When purchasing cold-work die steel, it is very important to choose a reliable supplier. OTAI Special steel exported the special steel to more than 30 countries all over the world,and they are passed the standard of America, Germany and Japan.We are the very valuable and trustable supplier who supplied for the Thyssen Krupp and Chinese ordnance industry group.

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