Nitrex™ Surface Enhancement Extends Press Brake Tool Life

Wilson Tool's exclusive treatment helps tools last longer, reduce long-term costs

WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN. (November 13, 2005) – Tool life is a crucial factor for press brake fabricators looking to increase productivity and control costs. Wilson Tool’s Nitrex™ High Endurance Surface Enhancement is a key ingredient for extending tool life, allowing them to reduce long-term costs and boost their bottom line.

Increased Surface Hardness
Exclusive to Wilson Tool, Nitrex is a patented formula that permeates tool steel through a heat-treat process. When treated with Nitrex, Wilson Tool’s proprietary tool steel achieves a surface hardness of HRC-60. This added strength increases tooling life by several times that of untreated tooling.

“Our customers experience tremendous productivity gains when they use Nitrex,” said Glen Shuldes, applications engineer at Wilson Tool. “The extended tool life is so impressive, they wish they had used Nitrex sooner.”

Galling and Corrosion Resistant
Nitrex has unique lubricity-boosting properties that lower the coefficient of friction as the steel slides over the V-opening of a die, effectively minimizing galling in bending applications. With Nitrex-treated tools, press brake fabricators also experience zero corrosion and faster cleanups, keeping tools healthier, longer.

Lower Tooling Costs, Greater Productivity
By enhancing tool performance, Nitrex enables press brake fabricators to be more efficient, lower overall tooling costs and manufacture a superior product. Nitrex is now a standard offering for Wilson’s press brake tools and has raised the bar for tool performance.

About Wilson Tool
For 40 years, Wilson Tool International® has been a leading provider of tooling solutions that enhance the performance of sheet metal fabricating machinery worldwide. Wilson Tool International is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of tooling systems for punch presses, press brakes and punch and die components for the stamping industry. Products are manufactured at the company’s world headquarters in White Bear Lake, Minn., USA, at their European facility in Swindon, England and now at their site in Shanghai, China, serving a growing customer base in that region. Wilson Tool’s network of sales engineers and international distributors operate in virtually every industrialized nation around the globe.