
Grade CBN High hardness and thermal resistance for machining hardened steel and hard cast iron. High-speed finishing of gray cast iron with long tool life is also possible. In 1977, Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal successfully developed a revolutionary CBN sintered tool called SUMIBORON. The main component in SUMIBORON is cubic boron nitride with a special ceramic binder sintered under super high pressure and Insert Grades temperature. Compared to other conventional tool materials, CBN has higher hardness and excellent thermal resistance. With these distinct characteristics, SUMIBORON can perform machining of hardened steel, hard cast iron and exotic alloys which was previously only done by grinding. Excellent efficiency and longer tool life can also be achieved from high-speed A finishing of cast iron. Features Structure Features Structure CBN Content Hardness (GPa) Grade Work Materials/Applications Features Carbide Coated Cast Iron, Titanium ・Containing no binder, the nano-to sub-micron CBN Purely CBN High 54 particles have a directly bonded structure Alloy, Pure Titanium, particles, firmly NCB100 ・The high hardness and thermal conductivity make it Co-Cr Alloy, Cemented highly efficient with a long tool life when machining bonded Carbide, Cermet exotic alloys such as titanium alloys and Co-Cr alloys Cemented Carbide, Cermet Chilled Cast Iron, Ni-Hard ・High CBN content. Structure consists of Mainly CBN BN700 Cast, Iron, Sintered strongly fused CBN grains grains fused BN7000 ・Suited to cutting cast iron, heat-resistant Ferrous Alloy, BN7500 together Heat-resistant Alloy, Cast alloy, cemented carbide and other BNS800 Iron, Sintered Ferrous high-hardness materials Carbide Alloy Mainly CBN BN1000/BN2000/BN350 ・CBN grains are fused together strongly BNX10/BNX20/BNX25 Alloy Steel, Case Hardened Steel, with a special ceramic binder grains held Carbon Tool Steel, Bearing Steel, ・Strong CBN binding provides superior BN500/BNC2010/BNC2020 together with a Low 27 Die Steel, Ductile Cast Iron wear resistance and toughness when BNC300/BNC100/BNC160 binder cutting hardened steel and cast iron BNC200/BNC500 CBN Grade Map PCD Work Material Application High-speed Cutting Finishing to Light Cutting Medium Cutting Rough to Heavy Cutting Classification − H01 H10 H20 H30 BNC2010 Ceramic Coated BNC2020 BNC300 SUMIBORON BNC100 BNC160 BNC200 Hardened Steel BN1000 Uncoated BN2000 SUMIBORON BNX10 BNX20 BNX25,BN350 Classification − 01 10 20 30 Sintered Uncoated BN7500 Alloy SUMIBORON BN7000 Classification − K01 K10 K20 K30 Coated BNC500 * SUMIBORON NCB100 Cast Iron Uncoated BN500 SUMIBORON BN7000 BNS800 Classification − S01 S10 S20 S30 NCB100 Uncoated Exotic Alloy BN7000 SUMIBORON BNS800 * Dedicated for Ductile Cast Iron A32