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The DiaBide coating process produces cutting tools with a significantly longer wear life, and considerably less friction than traditional cutting tools, so much so that DiaBide coated tools quickly pay for themselves.

The proliferation of super-hard composite materials across many industries has created a huge demand for diamond coated cutting tools. Combining large capacity, high throughput and very uniform coatings, sp3's Diamond Technology reactors are optimally suited to cutting tool applications. Coatings can be applied to tungsten carbide inserts, drills, endmills and a wide variety of specialized tools. The diamond coated tools are ideal for machining graphite, green ceramic, fiber reinforced plastics, carbon fiber composites, metal matrix composites and aluminum die castings with high silicon content.

sp3 specializes in depositing CVD diamond on flat and round cutting tools of many configurations, using thin-film diamond. Diamond tools provide exceptional performance in machining abrasive, non-metallic materials such as metal matrix composites and non-ferrous metals.

Because diamond tools last much longer (10 to 50 times the life of carbide) they:

• Improve the dimensional accuracy and consistency of the machined parts
• Greatly reduce the number of tool changes, increasing productivity
• Increase machine utilization
• Allow much longer periods of unattended machining, e.g., overnight

Because diamond tools offer extremely low friction and consistently sharp edges, they:

• Permit using speeds two to three times higher than carbide, again contributing to productivity, with no degradation of surface quality
• Allow delicate, thin-wall sections to be machined quickly and precisely at high rpm settings with reduced feed rates

sp3 Diamond Technologies' patented DiaBide hot-filament CVD deposition process allows uniform coating of substrates of almost any configuration. With its considerable expertise, sp3 has developed a method that maximizes the number of tools that are coated in every reactor run to make its DiaBide coating as cost-effective as possible. With its economical operation and low power consumption, sp3's hot filament reactors can produce the lowest cost diamond coatings on the market.

The MAC System
All of sp3 Diamond Technologies' DiaBide tools are identified by a material application code (MAC) to ensure customers obtain the DiaBide coating for machining abrasive, non-metallic materials and non-ferrous metals best suited to a particular application.

Click here for sp3's DiaBide - Diamond Tool Cutting Service brochure.

Click here for sp3's Toll Coating Tolerances.

Click here for sp3's Suggested Carbide Grades for Round Tools.

Click here for sp3's Suggested Carbide Grades for Flat Tools.

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