Tool Steel refers to a variety of carbon and alloy steels that are particularly well-suited to be made into tools. Their suitability comes from their distinctive hardness, resistance to abrasion, their ability to hold a cutting edge, and their resistance to deformation at elevated temperatures. Tool steel is generally used in a heat-treated state.

Tool steels are made to a number of grades for different applications. Choice of grade depends on, among other things, whether a keen cutting edge is necessary, or whether the tool has to withstand impact loading and service conditions encountered with such hard tools as axes, pickaxes and quarrying.

Benefits:

• Hardness
• Abrasion resistant
• Ability to hold a cutting edge
• Resistance to deformation at high temperatures