Grinding operations in food processing require wear- and corrosion-resistant BÖHLER steels with high hardness and hygiene performance. Key quality features include ultra-clean materials, controlled heat treatment, full traceability, and verified surface quality for safe processing.
Grinding operations in food and beverage processing require materials capable of maintaining consistent performance under high wear, mechanical stress, and strict hygienic conditions. Components such as grinder plates, knives, and mills are exposed to abrasion from processed materials, cyclic loading, and frequent cleaning with aggressive agents. Material requirements therefore focus on high hardness, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and toughness to prevent chipping or premature failure. In addition, excellent surface quality and cleanability are essential to ensure food safety and avoid contamination.
BÖHLER high-performance steels and alloys are specifically engineered for these demanding applications. Advanced martensitic stainless steels and wear-resistant tool steels offer an optimized balance of hardness, edge retention, and corrosion resistance. Produced using advanced melting technologies, BÖHLER materials ensure high purity and homogeneous microstructures, enabling extended service life and reliable operation. Key quality features include precise control of chemical composition, certified traceability, and validated heat treatment processes to achieve consistent hardness and wear properties. Surface integrity and hygienic performance are verified through strict inspection and testing. BÖHLER materials support efficient, safe, and durable grinding operations in modern food processing environments.
BÖHLER K110 is a 12% ledeburitic chromium steel and corresponds to material number 1.2379 (X153CrMoV12, D2). This tool steel combines the advantages of conventional 12% ledeburitic chromium steels with those of advanced tool steels. In the group of 12% ledeburitic chromium steels, BÖHLER K110 offers the best combination of wear resistance, compressive strength and toughness, for which reason it is used in virtually all cold work applications. Its advantageous tempering behavior with a pronounced secondary hardness maximum also enables the use of advanced coatings. This also makes BÖHLER K110 suitable for complex tools requiring a high degree of dimensional stability and shape stability.
Read MoreBÖHLER K340 ECOSTAR belongs to the group of conventionally produced 8% chromium steels. Compared to conventional 12% chromium steels, this conventionally smelted tool steel has better toughness, hardening response and higher adhesive wear resistance. This combination of high adhesive wear resistance and toughness also offers advantages for industrial knives subject to high stress. This grade is also used for stamping and cutting tools.
Read MoreBÖHLER K490 MICROCLEAN is a high-performance cold work tool steel with a balanced property profile, manufactured using powder metallurgy. This powder metallurgical tool steel offers an outstanding combination of high wear resistance, compressive strength, toughness and very good machinability. Thanks to the resulting flexibility, BÖHLER K490 MICROCLEAN is used in virtually all cold work applications, and in many cases this material is the first choice for newly developed tools. The commonly used hardening temperatures of BÖHLER K490 MICROCLEAN also enable shared heat treatment with popular cold work tool steels (1.2379, D2), making it very economical in terms of heat treatment.
Read MoreBÖHLER M340 ISOPLAST corresponds to a corrosion-resistant, martensitic chromium steel with improved wear resistance. This is ideal for the application area of glass fiber reinforced plastics. In addition, the BÖHLER M340 ISOPLAST is approved for food and beverage contact.
Read MoreBÖHLER W302 ISODISC is a 5% chromium steel and corresponds to material number 1.2344 (X40CrMoV5-1). This common tool steel has good hot toughness as well as a high hot hardness and a high resistance against heat-checkings. The combination of these properties makes it a standard choice in extrusion, forging and low-pressure die casting. This material is also available as W302 ISOBLOC which is a remelted grade with improved cleanliness, homogeneity and toughness.
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