Tooling & Cutting Industry

PERFORMANCE BEYOND EXPECTATION

With more than 570 years of history and 130 locations around the globe, we offer our customers a one-stop-shop solution.

Our goal is to continuously improve their tooling performance and reduce the total cost per part produced.

With Additive Manufacturing and our innovative Engineered Products, we now additionally deliver tailored solutions to further improve, amongst others, our customers’ thermal management and cycle times.

Applications

As different tooling applications have their specific needs and requirements, it is important to optimize the individual tooling solution. Selecting the most appropriate tool steel and the correct application of value-added services such as heat treatment, PVD coating and additive manufacturing will result in superior tool performance.

Solutions for the most important applications:

Hot Work Applications

High Pressure Die Casting
Extrusion
Forging
Press Hardenings

Cold Work Applications

Powder Pressing
Fine Blanking
Cold Forming
Shearing / Machine Knives

Plastic Processing Applications

Injection Moulding
Blow Moulding
Plastic Extrusion

Cutting Tool Applications

Twist Drills & Taps
End Mills
Broaches & Reamers
Gear Cutting, Shaving & Shaping Tools

Products & Services

Engineered Products

Engineered Products are ready-to-use parts made out of high-quality materials. Depending on requirements they are processed using e.g. heat treatment, coating or additive manufacturing.

Tool Steel

The High Performance Metals Division focuses on technologically advanced products in the area of stainless steel manufactured at eight production sites in Europe, North and South America.

High Speed Steels

voestalpine High Performance Metals stocks a wide range of High Speed Steel available in multiple sizes and supply options.

Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as “3D printing,” enables production with shorter lead times, at lower weight, and for shapes that were not previously feasible.

Coating

With the acquisition of Eifeler, voestalpine High Performance Metals is now one of the leading suppliers of PVD (and CVD) coatings. A wide range of coating systems can be offered.

Heat Treatment

voestalpine High Performance Metals offers a wide range of heat­ treatment ­services through its global distribution network to optimize the properties of our steel according to customer application.