Ferro-Titanit

The outstanding properties of Ferro-Titanit® make it highly attractive and useful for various applications:

• Hardness: With the ability to be hardened up to 70 HRC, Ferro-Titanit® exhibits exceptional hardness and resistance to wear and mechanical stress.
• Low distortion: The material is characterized by minimal distortion during hardening, as the titanium carbide has low thermal expansion and undergoes no transformation properties.
• Good compatibility with steel: Connections are ensured through diffusion bonding, brazing, or hot isostatic pressing. In a combination, FerroTitanit® is only present where needed – in the wear-prone area. The steel as the base material allows material savings, provides higher toughness, and can be processed more cost-effectively.
• Reusability: A significant advantage of Ferro-Titanit® lies in the ability to anneal used tools and wear parts multiple times, transforming them into new parts without negative microstructural changes.
• Machinability: Ferro-Titanit® is machinable and can be processed using conventional methods of machining.
• Minimized tendency to cold welding: The titanium carbides in Ferro-Titanit® (approximately 50 vol.-%) do not react with other materials. The hardly detectable cold welding on well-polished tools results in long service life with an excellent surface.
• Low weight: Ferro-Titanit® is 50% lighter than cemented carbide and even 15% lighter than steel. This provides structural advantages in situations with high centrifugal forces.

Ferro-Titanit® represents a family of powder metallurgically produced, highly alloyed composite materials. These materials are particularly characterized by their machinability and hardenability, combining the best properties of tool steel and hard metal. The distinctive feature of Ferro-Titanit® is an impressive titanium carbide content of up to 50 vol.%, embedded in an alloyed steel binding phase. This imparts crucial material properties such as strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance, while the carbides primarily enhance hardness and wear resistance.

The range of Ferro-Titanit alloys allows precise adaptation to the specific requirements of a tribological system. As a result, seven different grades of Ferro-Titanit® are created, categorized based on the specific binding phase into three groups: Carbon-Martensites, Soft-Martensites, and Austenites. Each of these groups has specific properties and applications ranging from metal processing to high-temperature applications. Whether it's Ferro-Titanit® C-Special, Ferro-Titanit® WFN, Ferro-Titanit® S, Ferro-Titanit® Nikro 128, Ferro-Titanit® Nikrodur, Ferro-Titanit® Nikro 143, Ferro-Titanit® Cromoni, or Ferro-Titanit® U, all have exceptional advantages.