Tungsten Carbide Plate | OEM Wear-Resistant Cemented Carbide Blank for Tooling & EDM
Product Overview
Tungsten carbide plate (also called cemented carbide flat blank or wolfram carbide sheet) is a dense, ultra-hard semifinished material made from tungsten carbide (WC) powder bonded with cobalt or nickel. With hardness typically between HRA 85.5 and 92.5 and transverse rupture strength up to 3,900 N/mm², carbide plate is the go-to starting stock for parts that must survive abrasion, compression and heat far beyond what tool steel can endure.
Every plate we ship starts from 100% virgin raw powder and is gas-pressure (HIP) sintered to eliminate internal porosity — the difference you can see under a microscope, and the reason our blanks machine cleanly and hold their edges without chipping.
Choosing the Right Grade
Cobalt content is the lever between hardness and toughness. Lower cobalt (YG6/YG6X) gives you maximum wear resistance for finishing tools and precision wear parts; higher cobalt (YG15/YG20) absorbs impact in stamping and cold-forming dies. The quick guide below covers the grades we ship most often:
Not sure which grade fits your part? Send us the working conditions — material being cut or formed, impact level, temperature — and our engineers will recommend a grade, or adjust the grain size and binder ratio to build one for you.
Where Carbide Plates Are Used
- Cutting tool blanks — inserts, blades, knives for machining cast iron, steel, stainless steel and non-ferrous alloys
- Stamping & forming dies — punch plates, die inserts, progressive-die segments for hardware and fastener production
- Wear parts — crusher jaws, wear strips, guide plates, scraper blades in mining and recycling equipment
- Mould components — core inserts, mould bases and cavity blocks for powder metallurgy and ceramics
- Specialty applications — non-magnetic tooling for the magnet and electronics industries, high-temperature fixtures, corrosion-resistant liners
OEM / ODM Customization
Standard plate sizes only get you so far. As a source manufacturer, we cut, grind and finish plates to your drawing — including square blanks, rectangles, disc segments, chamfered edges and pre-machined pockets. Customization covers:
- Non-standard dimensions and thickness from 1 mm upward, single piece or full production lots
- Grade formulation adjusted to your performance requirements (we hold formula patents)
- Precision grinding and polishing to your specified tolerance and surface roughness
- Laser or wire-cut profiling, drilling and milling before shipment
- Custom packaging and labelling for direct delivery to your production line