Producer
Sandvik AB
Leading specialty-steel maker; its strip steel (e.g. 13C26) is a reference material for razor and surgical blades — same metallurgy serves industrial knives and medical cutting.
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5 inputs Sandvik AB supplies
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manufactured
Razor-Blade Steel Strip (Martensitic Stainless) →
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Appliance Heating Element (Nichrome/Quartz) →
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Razor-Blade Steel Strip (Martensitic Stainless) →
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Sawmill cutting tooling →
mineral
Tungsten Carbide (Cutting Tools / Bits) →
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Manufacturing & Machining Solutions (Coromant)
38%Mining & Rock Solutions
35%Materials Technology (Strip Steel, Alloys, Kanthal)
17%Rock Processing Solutions
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Did you know2024
Sandvik Coromant's cemented carbide (WC-Co, tungsten carbide/cobalt) cutting inserts are the dominant machining medium for aerospace titanium, automotive hard alloys, and precision parts manufacturing globally. Cemented carbide is also the primary material for armor-piercing ammunition cores (WC-Co penetrators in 7.62mm NATO tungsten rounds, 12.7mm rounds, and large-caliber anti-armor penetrators). The US Department of Commerce places export controls on cemented carbide and tungsten carbide materials for this reason. Sandvik's cutting tool inserts and the ammunition supply chain for armor-piercing military rounds compete for the same tungsten carbide feedstock, produced primarily from Chinese tungsten mines (~83% of global tungsten supply is Chinese). A Chinese tungsten export restriction would simultaneously hit Sandvik's automotive/aerospace cutting tools and NATO's armor-piercing round production.
U.S. Geological Survey ↗Origin2024
Sandvik was founded in 1862 in Sandviken, Sweden by Göran Fredrik Göransson, using the Bessemer steel process for the first time in Sweden (Göransson had funded Bessemer's own steel experiments). Sandvik's original product was high-quality steel that leveraged the Bessemer process's ability to produce hard, consistent steel at industrial scale. Over 160 years, the company diversified from steel into cutting tools (Coromant was founded internally in 1942), mining equipment, and specialty alloys. The company's current structure — cutting tools, mining equipment, specialty steel — spans the entire value chain from mining raw tungsten ore to making the tool that machines the part that goes into the product made from metal.
Sandvik AB ↗