Drilling

Overseas Launch of a new Coated Carbide Grade DP6020 for carbon and alloy steel drilling

Mitsubishi Materials Co., Ltd. (Company President: Ohara Kazuo Address: Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has launched a new grade for drilling, DP6020, for carbon and alloy steels. Orders for special products will start on April 1st, 2024.

The DP6020 grade for drilling exhibits extreme wear resistance during high-speed, high-efficiency machining of carbon and alloy steels.

In recent years high efficiency methods have become mainstream in the machining of automobile parts and drills are now also required to perform in the high-speed cutting range. However, since these type of automobile parts require strength, the steel used as the material tends to have increased toughness. Therefore, efficient drilling of high-toughness steel, requires a grade that exhibits class leading wear resistance.
Therefore, Mitsubishi Materials has developed the DP6020 grade for machining carbon and alloy steel and will start production for special orders.

The main features of DP6020 are as follows

  1. Al-Cr-Si-Ti-N multilayer coating provides excellent wear resistance during high-speed, high-efficiency drilling.
     
  2. By adding Si in the coating, the film hardness and oxidisation temperatures are significantly improved.
     
  3. The multi-layer coating structure improves wear and crack resistance during cutting.
     
  4. Orders are being accepted for special carbide drills for machining steel.
Product Name PVD Coated Grade for Carbon Steel and Alloy Steel Drilling DP6020
Release Date April 1, 2024