WG-300 ceramic tooling increases productivity in nickel alloy machining by upto 10 times.

Our recent plant expansions and major new machine tool acquisitions have been instrumental in our bringing to market an expanded line of these advanced ceramic inserts to further facilitate complex machining operations. Inserts with holes (Pinlock style) have been added along with numerous other tools such as new grooving tools, double-ended, V-bottom diamonds and Powerlock grooving inserts. You can expect to find all popular shapes and sizes of WG-300 inserts available off the shelf as a result of our expanded inventory and quick service program.

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What is WG-300?

Greenleaf WG-300, developed by Greenleaf Corporation, is the first commercially available ceramic composite using the technology of whisker reinforcement. It can operate upto 10 times the speeds used for uncoated carbide tools.

The basic concept involves reinforcing a hard ceramic matrix with extremely strong,stiff silicon carbide crytals,commonly called whiskers.These whiskers are grown under carefully controlled conditions and due to their high purity and lack of grain boundaries approach the theoretical maximum strength obtainable.This strength is calculated to be in the order of one million P.S.I. (6,900 MPa) tensile! The super-strong whiskers are disperesed into a matrix of fine graided aluminium oxide where they act much like glass filaments do,for example in fibreglass,by adding tensile strength and improving the fracture toughness of the brittle matrix.The increase in the frature toughness of the material is such that inserts are now offerd without hones as a standard,making them suitable for finish cuts on most forged nickel base alloys without "smearing". WG-300 has outstanding thermal and mechanical shock resistance.It can withstand intermittent cut application,such as in milling,without breakage.The use of flood coolant is highly recommended at all times to increase tool life.

Special Tooling Applications

Greenleaf engineering offer tooling solutions for the unique problems common to the the aerospace industry and are supported by an extensive data base.Computer Aided Design (CAD) utilizing advanced hardware and software such as three dimensional solid modeling capability enables fast turnaround of proposal drawings and finished tool detailing for manufacture at Greenleafs dedicated tool shop. The wide selection of cutting tool materials available to Greenleaf engieers ensures a creative solution to most problems.High nickel alloys,stainless steels and titanium alloys are all part of the daily challenge and we offer tools on Greenleaf as well as proprietary systems such as KM,CAPTO and HSK,if required.

(KM is a registered trademark of Kennamatal.CAPTO is a registered trademark of Sandvik)

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