Solid Carbide Tooling Leaflet0 pages

Regrinding, Coating
and Recoating Services
State-of-the-art CNC grinding and
high performance Balzers BALINIT ®
thin film PVD coatings

Solid Carbide Tooling (Standard Range)

Regrind Services

AN EXAMPLE OF BEFORE
AND AFTER REGRINDING

Solid carbide tooling is manufactured using
micrograin carbide as standard, ground to a
microfinish on state-of-the-art CNC grinding
machines, and then surface coated in our
Balzers PVD coating plant.

Manufacturers & Suppliers
of Drills, Reamers, End Mills,

Somta offers a cost effective value-added
service of regrinding of any used carbide
tooling, either standard or special form.
This enables lower machining costs over the
life of the solid carbide tool, with enhanced tool
performance.

Toolbits, Solid Carbide

Coating and Recoating Services

Tooling, Carbide Insert

Bore Cutters, Taps & Dies,

Coupled to the solid carbide cutting tool regrind service, Somta also offers a recoating service, using
its range of high performance Balzers BALINIT® thin film PVD coatings to further improve performance
of original and reground carbide cutting tools.

Tooling, Custom Tools

for Optimised CNC Machining

Head Office and Surface Coating Division
Somta House, 290-294 Moses Mabhida (Edendale) Road,
Pietermaritzburg, 3201
Private Bag X401, Pietermaritzburg, 3200
South Africa

Somta’s Solid Carbide Tooling Range is a comprehensive family of solid
carbide stub and jobber length drills, 2 and 4 flute end mills and ball nose
end mills, in both regular and long series, and almost any special form
carbide tooling.

Tel: Factory: +27 33 355 6600
Fax: Factory: +27 33 394 0564
Tel: Sales: +27 11 390 8700 (Local)
Fax: Sales: +27 11 397 6720/1 (Local)
Tel: Sales: +27 33 355 6600 (Exports)
Fax: Sales: +27 33 394 7509 (Exports)
Email: exports@somta.co.za

This Somta carbide tooling range is manufactured from high grade micrograin tungsten
carbide, with a physical vapour deposition (PVD) Balzers coated and uncoated version as
standard. This coating allows extremely high operating speeds for optimizing specialized
applications.
This high performance range of tooling is most suited to CNC applications, particularly when
machining hard and abrasive materials, or when used on softer materials like fibreglass,
brass and plastics.

Technical Information:
Email: tech@somta.co.za
Toll Free Number: 0800 331 399

The combination of solid tungsten carbide substrate with thin film PVD surface coatings,
gives significant benefits with vastly improved cycle times on a broad range of work materials.
Somta solid carbide tooling guarantees higher feed rates, superior surface finish and longer
tool life, with the added value of local regrinding and recoating services.

Coating Technical Parameters
Product
Name
BALINIT ® X.TREME
BALINIT ® FUTURA NANO
BALINIT ® A

Coating
Material
TiAIN
TiAIN
TiN

Microhardness
HV*

Friction Coef
against steel (dry)*

Max Appl
Temp.*C

Coating
Detail

3500
3300
2300

0.4
0.30-0.35
0.4

800
900
600

and Surface Coatings

Violet-grey monolayer
Violet-grey nanostructure
Gold-yellow monolayer

Gauteng Sales Office
43 Bisset Road, Hughes Ext. 7, Boksburg, 1459
P.O.Box 14212, Witfield, 1467
South Africa
Tel: +27 11 390 8700
Fax: +27 11 397 6720/1
Sharecall: 086 010 4367
Email: jhbsales@somta.co.za

BALINIT ® X.TREME (TiAIN)
Best matched to solid carbide cutting tool substrate material for high demand high speed applications.
XTREME is successfully employed under extreme conditions of hard machining (45-65 HRC). Solid
carbide milling cutters coated with XTREME typically permit much faster and more economical
machining of dies.
BALINIT ® FUTURA NANO (TiAIN)
A universal high-performance coating for drilling, milling, reaming and turning. Also suited to dry
machining. Excellent for the most demanding machining applications. Features a remarkably tough
multilayer structure. Futura Nano coated tools have increased metal removal rates with extended
life under critical machining applications.

BALINIT ® A (TiN)
A general purpose coating widely used for cutting and forming tools in a variety of industrial
applications. Excellent for HSS drilling. TiN coating is commonly used for HSS and HSS-Co5 grade
drill ranges.

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FOR FURTHER TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON REGRINDING AND COATING SERVICES

Regrinding Services : Tel: +27 33 355 6600 • Email: tech@somta.co.za
Coating Services : Tel: +27 355 6633 • Email: coating@somta.co.za

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