RUSNANO, Microbor Join To Produce Commercial CBN Cutting Tools

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RUSNANO, Microbor Join To Produce Commercial CBN Cutting Tools
Description Russian Corp. of nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) will join in a project develop commercial cutting tools using the cubic boron nitride nanopowder (CBN), the second hardest known material after diamond. Only the leading vendors (Sandvik, Kennametal, Iscar) specialize in CBN cutting tools. Among them, only Sandvik maintains a complete production cycle for tools manufacturing using micron-sized CBN particles. To date there is no commercial CBN tools production in the world that uses micron-sized CBN particles, sources said.
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