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GC2515 Turning Grade
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GC2515 Turning Grade
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We are introducing a new stainless steel turning grate GC2515 and I am joined by Martin Saunders in the studio who will cover the details with me. Welcome Martin. Hi. Hi. Martin, what makes this new steel turning grate special? I think we shouldn't think of 25-15 as a niche grade. This is a grade that strategically consolidates 2015 and 22 -20 into one first choice finishing grade. So, less complexity. And what other technical benefits does this grade bring to our customers? I think it's important because the customers don't want this unnecessary complexity. So, by having the one grade, it gives them a simple choice, but it gives increased robustness plus increased process security. So, you've got the advantages of the finishing grade and the light roughing grade in one. Sounds great. And you already touched upon some technical aspects. I would like to dig a bit deeper and especially talk about our innovative Inveo coating that we have used for this grade. Yeah. When we look at the technical makeup of this grade, we have, as you said, the Inveo coating. So, we have an oxide coating with a tight-knit unidirectional crystals, which give you a heat barrier. Underneath that, we have the titanium carbon nitride coating, which gives you the abrasive wear resistance. And then, on top of that, we have a gradient substrate. And the gradient substrate gives you the plastic deformation resistance. So, we've got a grade now that works really well, as I said, in the finishing, so where the abrasive wear is needed, and also in the light roughing, where you need that security, that process security. So far, so good. But let's talk about some proof points. I've heard that we've done quite a lot of testing, right? Could you share some results? Of course, there's a lot of lab tests and customer tests being done. And we want to ensure that we actually cover all of the areas that these grades are applied. And when we look in the plastic deformation resistance area, against our own 2025 grade, so an M25 as compared to an M15 grade, you can see that we went from 20 parts per inch to 32 parts per inch. At quite a high speed, but at the same cutting data. Then, when we started to look at competitors, you can see, in this instance, in an oil and gas component, we went from 70 parts to 100 parts per inch, again at the same cutting data. And it starts to show these tests have a recurring theme that we see improvements every time. And there's another test here, again against the competitor. We can see we went from 50 parts to 100 parts per inch. And this was probably a lower cost competitor. But the increases in tool life and the increase or the decrease then in cost per component was then able to give us a gain against that competitor. So repetitive in many customer cases. Wow, thank you so much for sharing those impressive results. So where does the QMH geometry fit into this? What we do with the QMH geometry is strengthen this offer even further. Where we had good improvements from the grade, we've now got even better improvements by adding the QMH. Which means when you run at feeds above 0.25 millimeters per rev, which is standard feed rate in these materials, you start to see bigger improvements in tool life. So combine the two, an even better offer. So I think you shared some very interesting aspects already. What is your kind of key takeaway for our channel partners? I think the key message is that this isn't a niche grade. It's a grade that gives you finishing capabilities and light roughing capabilities. And now when you combine the entire assortment range, the geometries and grades from Coroment, you can see that we actually have a market leading stainless steel offer. Fantastic. That's a strong note to end up on. Thank you so much, Martin. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for watching this video clip. And as you know, you will find sales and marketing material about our new steel turning grade on the Partner Portal. Thank you.