Important everyday products—from plastics to detergents—are made through chemical reactions that mostly use precious metals ...

Scientists are finding new ways to replace expensive, scarce platinum catalysts with something far more abundant: tungsten ...

Komet's tungsten carbide cutter. Image courtesy of Komet USA. Komet USA now offers a new tungsten carbide cutter designed especially to be used on acrylic material. Komet's H251ACR.104.060 is a cutter ...

Komet USA now offers DF Cutters, tungsten carbide instruments designed for creating a defined roughness of precious and nonprecious metal surfaces to be used in porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) crowns.

Tungsten carbide is a great material, durable enough to cut most metals and withstand tough physical and chemical conditions. In most situations, if tungsten carbide isn’t good enough, the next stop ...

Tungsten Carbide is a hard, brittle ceramic which, when combined with 6% to 10% Cobalt, forms a tough Cermet (Ceramic-Metal). This material was developed for use in cutting tools, having hard ceramic ...