Tungsten carbide buttons are widely applied in geological prospecting, coal mining and oil well boring. Because of its wear resistance and hardness (9.8 Moe's scale), tungsten carbide is ideally suited for wear parts, other machine parts and dies which are subject to severe service conditions, such as high temperatures, corrosion and abrasion. In recent years, tungsten carbide has emerged as a superior alternative to steel in many industrial applications.
Most of this tungsten carbide wear parts and the mining tools are made of straight WC-Co hard metals without any addition of other carbides. Fine and ultrafine grained WC hard metals have become more and more important today in the field of wear parts, tools for chipless forming and cutting tools for cast iron, non ferrous alloys and wood.
Tungsten carbide button is widely used as the most popular mining bits tool in modern industries, therefore, they are also named tungsten carbide mining bits, tungsten carbide button bits or just tungsten carbide mining buttons, etc. And as their material is cemented carbide, so cemented carbide buttons are also widely used among the users.
As its unique working performance, tungsten carbide buttons are widely applied to oil filed drilling and snow removal, snow plough machines or equipments.
Cemented carbide buttons are used in the coal cutter drilling tools, mine machinery tools and road maintenance tools for snow clearing and road cleaning. Carbide mining button bits are widely applied for rock tools, mining tools for use in quarrying, mining, tunneling, and civil constructions.
