Stainless steel is a kind of metal material widely used in industries such as food, medical appliances, automobile parts, and construction materials. It is widely used because of it resistance to corrosion and its strength and luster.
Lately, the demand of high strength and heat resistance stainless steel for turbo charger turbine housings has risen significantly.
High strength and heat resistance stainless steel is grouped into hard-to-cut stainless steel which more often provides high temperature occurring wear on inserts, fractures and chipping on tools due to heat and welding making high shear resistance than general stainless steel.
The existing grades of M25 to M35 grade reaches the limitation of improving tool life and cycle time in highly unstable and interrupted machining with hard-to-cut stainless steel.
Moreover, KORLOY recommends a new rising grade, PC9540 for improving productivity in hard-to-cut stainless steel milling.
The PC9540 which is an exclusive grade for M40 grade stainless steel maximizes chipping and fracture resistance in medium to rough cutting and interrupted milling due to its high toughness substrate. It also allows stable machinability in high strength and heat resistance stainless steel by applying the new rising PVD oxide film with oxidation and heat resistance.
Therefore, the average tool life of the PC9540 is 50% longer in hard-to-cut stainless steel machining than the existing grade and it provides high productivity in general stainless steel machining.
The 9540 is the latest grade providing solutions to improve productivity and achieve stable stainless steel machining.