Make sure you recycle your solid carbide tools. It is both environmentally sound and profitable. We all come out winners when worn-out tools are kept out of landfills and junkyards.

1. RECYCLING
CARBIDE
FACTS6You Didn’t Know About

2. Used carbide tools are possible sources of
income. Not only will you get paid for your
used carbide, you also help reduce the
environmental impact of producing new tools
as well as minimize the use of scarce tungsten.

3. Making new tools from recycled
solid carbide requires
70% less energy
than making them from material
extracted from ore

4. Production from recycled
materials cuts overall
carbon dioxide emissions by
40%

5. The British Geological Survey’s 2012
supply risk index ranked tungsten
second behind rare earth.

6. China accounts for approximately 83% of
global tungsten concentrate production
and about 62% of global tungsten
reserves. This high concentration in one
location leaves global supply levels
vulnerable.

7. 95%
of a used
carbide insert
can be recycled
75%
Of the content
is made up of
tungsten

8. Sandvik Coromant recovers
more than 80%
of the solid carbide it sells

9. Click here to learn more
about our recycling program
Recycling is both environmentally
sound and profit​able