Next Generation Tool Coating for Punch Press Tooling

SuperMax™ tool coating from Mate Precision Tool (Anoka, MN) answers today’s requirements for high performance, longer lasting punch press tooling. Providing a hard, wear resistant and lubricious coating, it acts as a barrier between the punch and sheet metal, greatly improving stripping and extending tool life.

A proprietary coating, SuperMax provides more hits between sharpening, which reduces machine downtime. It also reduces galling, slug pulling and corner breakdown, enhancing the quality and efficiency of the punching process. Outperforming currently available premium coatings by two to eight times, SuperMax is applied using the very latest nano-layer technology. It is a harder, denser film that greatly increases wear resistance and a much lower friction coefficient of approximately 20 percent. This lower friction means less heat build-up, less galling (adhesion) and much longer tool life.

This coating works well on M4PM™, M2 and Durasteel™ punches in round, rectangle, oval and square punch configurations. Its application effectiveness includes 3000 and 5000 series aluminum, galvanized and stainless steels, pre-painted material, vinyl coated material and fiberglass. “This is a real breakthrough and the next generation in tool coating,” stated John Galich, the marketing manager at Mate. “It increases tool performance beyond anything that’s currently available, further substantiating Mate’s mission of providing superior solutions for sheet metal fabricators.”

Mate Precision Tooling, 1295 Lund Boulevard, Anoka, MN 55303, 800-328-4492, Fax: 800-541-0285, marketing@mate.com, www.mate.com.