BZN™ Compacts
BZN™ Compacts are a complete line of high-quality polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN) products for machining hardened ferrous materials. This product line features full round blanks and cut tips, specialty blanks, and versatile grades designed to increase tool life, generate consistent surface finishes, and provide dimensional control.
BZN Compacts consist of fine particles of the highest quality of Borazon™ CBN, sintered and integrally bonded to a cemented tungsten carbide substrate. The carbide substrate provides excellent mechanical support to the PCBN abrasive layer and allows for easy braze attachment to fabricate finished tools.
Hyperion Materials & Technologies offers BZN Compacts in full-round tool blanks and semi-inserts, specialty grades such as M6500 and 7300S, and versatile grades such as V-Series and VS-Series. All offerings are available in various shapes, sizes, and grades for fabrication into finished high-performance tools.
Product Groups
Type: Full Round / Cut Pieces
Number of grades: 10
Description: Carbide supported PCBN 58-mm diameter round tool blanks available in multiple PCBN layer thicknesses. Cutting service also available as per individual request.
Type: Full Round or Cut Tips
Number of Grades: 3
Description: PCBN pre-form grades machined in turning, milling, and reaming tools to improve tool life and production. This provides versatility in three key aspects: workpiece composition, application demands, and component type.
Type: Full Round or Cut Tips
Number of Grades: 8
Description: PCBN grades machined in turning, milling, and reaming tools to improve tool life and production while maintaining superior crater and abrasion resistance.
Type: Full Round Blanks and Cut Tips
Number of Grades: 2
Description: Extremely versatile high-cBN content PCBN grade that signficantly enhances tool performance in a broad range of machining applications.
Type: Solid PCBN Grade
Number of Grades: 1
Description: Machine high alloy materials without the fear of premature edge fracture with tailored cBN composition designed for machining high chromium irons and steels.
Type: Full Round / Cut Pieces
Number of grades: 10
Description: Carbide supported PCBN 58-mm diameter round tool blanks available in multiple PCBN layer thicknesses. Cutting service also available as per individual request.
Type: Full Round or Cut Tips
Number of Grades: 3
Description: PCBN pre-form grades machined in turning, milling, and reaming tools to improve tool life and production. This provides versatility in three key aspects: workpiece composition, application demands, and component type.
Type: Full Round or Cut Tips
Number of Grades: 8
Description: PCBN grades machined in turning, milling, and reaming tools to improve tool life and production while maintaining superior crater and abrasion resistance.
Type: Full Round Blanks and Cut Tips
Number of Grades: 2
Description: Extremely versatile high-cBN content PCBN grade that signficantly enhances tool performance in a broad range of machining applications.
Type: Solid PCBN Grade
Number of Grades: 1
Description: Machine high alloy materials without the fear of premature edge fracture with tailored cBN composition designed for machining high chromium irons and steels.
BZN Compacts Applications
BZN Compacts is used to machine materials such as pearlitic gray cast irons, nickel and chromium alloys, hardened steel, powder metal irons, and hard-facing alloys and superalloys. These tools and blanks are used for turning and milling tools that are utilized within automotive, aerospace, wire drawing, general industrial, and more. These PCBN blanks are also fantastic for continuous to interrupted cuts, gears, powder metal applications, ductile iron, high-speed continuous turning, and CV joint applications.
BZN Compacts Benefits
In a typical machining application, tool cost is a relatively small percentage of the total production cost. The full potential and value of BZN Compacts tools over competitive and conventional tooling is evident by gains in productivity and cost savings in the total manufacturing operation. BZN Compacts achieve this by providing higher material removal rates, decreased cycle times, higher production output, faster machining parameters, improved workpiece quality, excellent dimensional control, high abrasion and wear resistance, excellent edge quality and retention, and superior impact strength.
FAQs about BZN Compacts
BZN® Compacts are a complete line of high-quality polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN) products for machining hardened ferrous materials. They consist of fine particles of Borazon® CBN, sintered and integrally bonded to a cemented tungsten carbide substrate, which provides excellent mechanical support to the PCBN abrasive layer and allows easy braze attachment to fabricate finished tools.
The advantages of using BZN Compacts are they improve productivity, extend tool life, and provide cost savings in the total manufacturing operation.
BZN Compacts improves productivity in the toolmaking industry by providing higher material removal rates, decreased cycle times, higher production output, faster machining parameters, improved workpiece quality, excellent dimensional control, high abrasion and wear resistance, excellent edge quality and retention, and superior impact strength. These traits lead to increased machine up-time, longer tool life, and a greater production capacity without investing in new equipment.
Common applications found using utilize BZN Compacts are ferrous hardened machining tools, such as turning and milling tools, which are used in the automotive, aerospace, wire drawing, and general industrial industries. The BZN Compacts blanks are used to machine the ferrous materials such as pearlitic gray cast irons, nickel and chromium alloys, hardened steel, powder metal irons, and hard-facing alloys and superalloys.
BZN Compacts come in a wide range of sizes and options. It is designed and produced in full blanks and cut tips, semi-inserts, specialty tips, and specialty grades. Various options include V-Series, VS-Series, M6500, and 7300S.
