Ultra-met Carbide Technologies is a world-renowned maker of custom-molded tungsten carbide products, with more than 50 years ... of unsurpassed metalcutting tool-development and applications expertise. We are your ultimate choice for premium-quality press-to-size inserts and toolmaker blanks for even the most challenging turning, milling, drilling, threading, facing, cut-off, and grooving products. We supply premium-quality blanks to toolmakers and fabricators. From our inception in 1965, through our sale to Krupp-WIDIA in 1987, and since being purchased by our current private-family owners in 1993, Ultra-Met Carbide Technologies has remained the leading independent American manufacturer of custom-molded tungsten carbide products. We have 90 highly skilled employees, backed by ownership dedicated to growing our business in several key markets, including aerospace, automotive, oil-and-gas, mining and woodworking, to name a few. Thanks to being a smaller company we have very close knit relations that allow our employees to succeed together and grow as if we were a family. We are your ultimate choice for premium-quality press-to-size inserts for even the most challenging turning, milling, drilling, threading, facing, cut-off, and grooving products. From design through latest manufacture, we will deliver the lowest total production cost to ensure the overall optimization of your operations, no matter what your industry. read more