DIN 1.2601 Special Steel is a kind of high alloyed CrMoV steel for cutting tool and cold work tool steel. Good hardenability and wearing resistance, and small distortion after quenching.

Dimensions
Flat: 6-120 x 40-1000 mm

Delivery Condition
EAF+(ESR) or EAF+LF+VD+(ESR), Hot rolled or Forged, Annealed, Black surface or Machined surface, UT SEP1921 Class3 D/d

Characteristics
1. A kind of high alloyed CrMoV steel for cutting tool and cold work tool steel.
2. Quite good hardenability and wearing resistance, and small distortion after quenching.
3. Not good impact toughness, be liable to fracture and form inhomogeneous eutectic carbides.

Application
High-duty cutting tools (dies and punches), blanking and punching tools, wood working tools, shear blades for cutting light-gauge material, thread rolling tools, tools for drawing, deep drawing and cold extrusion, pressing tools for the ceramics and pharmaceutical industries, cold rools (working rolls) for multiple-roll stands, measuring instruments and gauges, small moulds for the plastics industry where excellent wear resistance is required.