We're not your average machine shop. Where others leave off, we begin. Our specialty is manufacturing precision-ground wear parts, machine parts and dies for the most demanding industrial applications. We work primarily with tungsten carbide, silicon carbide and ceramic materials that have a proven ability to stand up under the stress of wear, corrosion, abrasion and shock.

Wear & Machine Parts

• Micronizing wear parts • Granulator blades • Pelletizer blades • Plungers • Pump Parts • Nozzles  • Carbide tubing  • Tube expanders  • Can tooling • Pulverizing trim • Scrub plates • Slitting knives • Cutoff knives  • Gages • Valve seats • Core rods   • Finished pins • Mixer pins • Wire eyelets • Ashgates • Liner sleeves • Cocoa hammers • Solid carbide augers  • Carbide tooling for mixers/pulverizers and jet mills  • Mandrels  • Preforms  • Can tooling  • Knife gates  • Carbide seats  • Carbide check rings  • Carbide guide rings (g rings)   •  Carbide-fluted hollow point drill bits  •  Tool inserts  •  Threaded rods  •  Pump plungers  •  End mills  •  Tipped tools •  Blanks  •  Cerbide products •  Custom components     

  Dies & Punches

• Complete forms • Draw dies • Punches • Rolls
• Die parts • Refractory tooling • Carbide mold tooling 

Extraordinary Challenges. Extraordinary Materials.

Ours is an unusual niche. We are generally called on to produce parts that will hold up under the stress of exceedingly harsh service conditions. Because of this, Philadelphia Carbide has tended to specialize in materials with exceptional properties, such as tungsten carbide, ceramics and silicon carbide. Find out more about the benefits and properties of these extraordinary materials.

Carbide-fluted Hollow Point Drill Bits  Hollow point drill bits are used for drilling a wide variety of thin materials, such as layers of paper or fabric. When layered materials are drilled, the resulting waste flows through the hollow passageway of the drill bit. Unless the inside and outside surfaces of the tube are perfectly smooth, the rapid build-up of waste materials can produce considerable friction and heat, resulting in clogging of the tube and melting of the work piece. It is also more difficult to drill a straight, uniform diameter hole as the bit diameter decreases in size and its geometry changes.

Through years of precision machining experience, Philadelphia Carbide has perfected its techniques and successfully overcome the difficulties inherent in manufacturing hollow drill bits. Today, we are the only manufacturer in the United States capable of producing:

     - Carbide-fluted hollow point drill bits featuring outside diameters from 0.062” to         0.625” (custom sizes also available); lengths from 2” and up. 
     - Hole sizes:
                    1/16” = .062
                    3/32” = .094
                      1/8” = .125
                    9/64” = .141
                    3/16” = .187
                      1/4" = .250
                     5/16” = .312
                       3/8” = .375
                     7/16” = .437
                       1/2” = .500
                     9/16” = .562
                       5/8” = .625
     - Small diameter bits capable of drilling straight holes while maintaining a uniform 
diameter
     - Carbide-tipped and fluted for longer work life
     - Precision-finished inside and outside surfaces to facilitate efficient travel of drilled 
waste material without clogging and with minimal heat build-up between bit and work piece

PLUNGER PUMPS FOR WATER JET AND PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES. During the last 30 years, demand for high pressure pumps for water jet blasting and water jet cutting operations has grown dramatically. Philadelphia Carbide has met this need with a wide range of pump components, including plungers, pistons, backup and distance rings, sleeves, bushings, needles, valve seats, plugs and balls. Our components have been subjected to working pressures in a range of 10,000 psi (750bar) up to 70,000 psi (5000bar). In the past dozen years alone, we have supplied pump parts and components to OEMs around the world and have offered advice on high pressure applications to companies in more than 40 countries.

Today's water jetting pumps often operates in the most demanding service conditions, sometimes in the presence of harsh chemicals, sometimes in a gaseous environment. We have developed special grades of ceramics and carbides, specially tailored for different service conditions, to ensure optimum performance and long life for your parts and components.

Philadelphia Carbide is one of a small number of companies capable of finishing your plungers to a surface finish of up to 0.3 RMSD (.005µm). This exceptional finish is crucial to maximize your plungers and packing service life.  

All parts manufactured by Philadelphia Carbide go through extensive quality control to guarantee they meet all your technical specifications---starting from certification to ensure the purity and physical properties of the raw materials, through rigid manufacturing controls, to highly advanced measurement capabilities of the final product.    

Cerbides. One of the most extraordinary new materials to come along in recent years is Cerbide^TM, which combines the properties of ceramics and cemented tungsten carbide. Cerbide offers measurably higher levels of abrasion and erosion resistance than tungsten carbide and has remarkable formability as well. Ask your Philadelphia Carbide sales representative if Cerbide is right for your application.

Need threaded rods? If you’ve ever experienced difficulty finding a machine shop capable of manufacturing hard-to-thread carbide rods or studs, your search is over. Count on Philadelphia Carbide for coarse or fine threaded rods 1/8” to 3” diameter and up to 8” in length.

Threading processes: acme, metric or decimal.

Thread direction: right- or left-handed.

Thread pitch: 1.25 mm thru 5.50 mm, 4TPI thru 28TPI

PHILADELPHIA CARBIDE COMPANY

1451 Anderson Ave. • Oreland, PA 19075
PH: (215) 885-0770 • FAX: (215) 576-8175
E-MAIL: rocky00@philacarbide.com