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TiCN
(Titanium Carbonitride)

TiCN has a fine grain dense structure that provides excellent toughness and high hardness. TiCN is harder and tougher than TiN, consequently it exhibits a high resistance to edge chipping.

This coating is a good choice for milling, forming and punching tools that encounter high mechanical stresses. TiCN is also recommended for applications cutting highly abrasive and/or gummy materials such as cast iron, brass and some cast aluminium alloys. LVEB TiCN is extremely smooth.

Applications and Benefits
• High performance applications
• Difficult to machine materials
• Abrasive materials - cast iron and aluminium alloys
• Adhesive materials - copper and copper based alloys
• Higher speeds and feeds possible for enhanced machine productivity compared to TiN
• Wear resistance and toughness superior to TiN

Improved performance with
• Higher speed conventional milling
• Gear cutting tools
• Heavy duty stamping
• Plastic moulds and extrusion tools for plastics containing >30% glass fillers (abrasion resistance)
• Deep drawing tools

Colour Blue - Grey
Coating Thickness 2 - 4 µm
Microhardness 3000 HV
Thermal Stability up to 400ºC
Coeff. Friction vs Steel 0.4