When we talk about the tooling industry, we refer to the tools such as dies and molds designed and made for use in sheet metal forming molds for car bodies in the automotive industry, cutting knifes, stamping equipment, forging and casting dies, plastic molds and cutting and forming tools. These tools and dies are precision parts with complex compositions for very specific applications and therefore very expensive! They are found in various industries around the world and it is one of UTP’s specialties to offer solutions to most of the problems in these industries.
Consequently, tool repair is a very interesting industry for UTP as a global supplier of welding consumables for SURFACEprotection and more specifically in this case for wear protection.
In use, tools and dies are continuously exposed to high stresses such as severe abrasion, metal-to-metal wear, shock, material fatigue, impact and high temperatures. As a result, the tools are subject to high wear.
Wear protection by repair welding is very economical and particularly attractive for very expensive tools and dies.
However, the weldability of tool steels, is a major challenge, but UTP’s wear protection welding consumables provide solid and durable welding solutions for the many areas of the tooling industry:
- Construction of new tools
- Reconstruction and repair of cracked or worn tools
- Renewal of cutting edges
- Correction of production defects
- Change of design
- Partial reinforcement of heavily stressed
