Kennametal Widia Produktions Gmbh & Co Kg

Vera Ucakar

Klaus Dreyer

Hans Werner Daub

Dieter Kassel

Walter Lengauer

A hard metal or cermet body has a 2 to 100 &#x3bc;m thick first layer having a binder metal proportion of 2 to 25 mass % and up to 25 volume % of a nitride or carbonitride of one or more metals of Group IVa of the periodic system or up to 10 volume % of a carbide or carbonitride of V, Nb, Ta or Cr, balance WC, whereby the amount of nitride, carbonitride or carbide of the afore-mentioned metals amounts to at least 0.01 volume %. Under the first layer is a 2 to 40 &#x3bc;m thick second layer with an enhanced nitrogen proportion relative to the first layer, is disposed. Thereunder is a transition zone with a thickness of 2 to 100 &#x3bc;m in which the composition gradually changes to a homogeneous composition in the inner core of the hard metal or cermet body.

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