1.2601 Tool Steel/DIN 1.2601

Stamping and shearing dies: Widely employed in automotive, household appliances, and electronics industries for producing blanking dies, trimming dies, and precision stamping dies. Particularly adept at processing difficult-to-machine materials such as stainless steel, silicon steel sheets, and high-strength steel plates.

Cold extrusion and cold heading dies: Withstands extremely high unit pressures and wear during mass production of standard fasteners (screws, bolts, nuts, rivets) and complex irregular components, serving as the ideal material for critical parts like dies, punches, and ejector pins.

Long-life forming dies: Employed in bending, deep drawing, flanging, and embossing dies requiring exceptional wear resistance, effectively countering severe abrasion from material flow.

Powder metallurgy dies: Suited for manufacturing pressing dies and finishing dies demanding high wear resistance and hardness.

Other wear-resistant components: Industrial parts with stringent wear resistance requirements, such as gauges, rollers, and forming dies for ceramics and refractory materials.

Our advantages in Processing 1.2601 Tool Steel

We recognise that exceptional material performance ultimately depends on rigorous control throughout the entire process, from raw materials to finished products. In the production of 1.2601 tool steel, we implement the following core quality assurance measures:

Pure base material: Utilising carefully selected furnace charges, advanced dual vacuum metallurgical processes (VIM+VAR or ESR) minimise impurity elements (S, P) and oxide inclusions in the steel, significantly enhancing purity, homogeneity, and toughness.

Precision Forging: Employing large-tonnage rapid or precision forging equipment for multi-directional forging thoroughly breaks down cast structures, refines carbide particles, improves their uniform distribution, and eliminates internal defects, laying a solid foundation for final performance.

Rigorous Heat Treatment: Implementing computer-controlled isothermal annealing yields a uniform, fine-grained spheroidal carbide structure, ensuring excellent machinability and stability for subsequent heat treatments. Quenching and tempering parameters undergo rigorous validation to optimally balance hardness, toughness, wear resistance, and dimensional stability.

Non-Destructive Testing Assurance: Every steel plate undergoes 100% ultrasonic testing (UT) prior to dispatch, guaranteeing freedom from internal cracks, white spots, inclusions, and other defects. Concurrent rigorous hardness, metallographic structure, and dimensional tolerance inspections guarantee every material meets promised quality standards.