Ceramic Hard Machining

Ceramics can be made from several different types of hard metal oxides or nitrides.

Ceramic hard machining.

The main advantage that mixed ceramic has over cubic boron nitride cbn in hard part machining applications is the effect on part production costs. Kadco ceramics is dedicated to the precision diamond machining of hard materials into intricate shapes. High precision machining of hard materials since 1947 insaco has been a precision machining and polishing fabricator of parts from all technical ceramics sapphire glass and quartz. We machine these materials to very precise tolerances many times measured in millionths of an inch for dimension flatness wedge and roundness or cylindricity.

Whilst cbn has a better tool life the cost per edge of a ceramic insert is a fraction of that of cbn approx one twentieth whilst feed rates chip thickness around 0 1mm and cutting speeds. Fine diamond machining full density parts ceramic parts fired to their full density are too hard for machining with tool steel cutters or even conventional methods.