The smallest product with CERATIZIT - production of ball-point pen balls

Close-up of ball-point pen balls The smallest product with CERATIZIT (openPR) - S.A., Mamer, Luxembourg (center) CERATIZIT, February 2007. Nearly everyone knows and uses it daily. Each German saw statistic to 13 pieces, which write in each case up to 10 km long. The speech is from the ball-point pen. Already since 1962 manufactures CERATIZIT balls for ball-point pens from tungsten carbide. The ball-point pen balls have a diameter from 0.50 mm to 1.1 mm. CERATIZIT today the only manufacturer of ball-point pen ball blanks and thus market leaders is in the west.

„In former times the balls of high-grade steel made, there the production from tungsten carbide was too expensive “, explains Pascale Janssens, Business segment manager with CERATIZIT Luxembourg. „In the 90's the difference in prices sank nevertheless enormously. The demand for tungsten carbide balls increased clearly. “

Advantages of tungsten carbide
The advantage of balls from tungsten carbide opposite balls made of high-grade steel is their hardness with simultaneous tenacity.
It is prevented by the extreme hardness of the tungsten carbide that the paper fibers damage the Kugeloberfläche. Thus the surface quality of the ball on its entire remains write-strains to receive.
The tenacity of the tungsten carbide protects the ball bearing seat against wear. Further the tenacity avoids the formation of marks during the letter.

A problem, which had to be repaired likewise, was the possible oxidation of the balls. This danger existed, since there was recently ink on water basis. Ink was used before on oil basis, with which the danger of the oxidation did not exist. Because of the different ink sorts on water basis, oil basis and gel different ball sorts are necessary. „Around oxidation to prevent, our developers optimized with CERATIZIT the corrosion resistance of our ball sorts “, white Janssens.

The seat of the ball
The ball is in a cavity. This is from steel and the diameter of this cavity is smaller than the ball diameter. The ball is held in this seat by a feather/spring. The play between ball and seat amounts to 0,002mm. „The challenge for the future exists in the development of a universal sort of balls, which can be used with all kinds of ink. By such our customers could stand out a sort against their competitors on the ball-point pen market “, betray Janssens.

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Tungsten carbide expert CERATIZIT stands for „hard material matters “
CERATIZIT S.A. - 2002 come out from the fusion of the enterprises CERAMETAL and plan lake Tizit - is pioneer and global Player for fastidious hard material solutions. The enterprise operates from Mamer in Luxembourg out. In selected industrial ranges the 50-prozentige daughter is the plan lake group of world market leaders for singular, consistently innovative hard material products for verschleissschutz and machine cutting. From it customers profit among other things to mechanical engineering, the Petroindustrie, the medical technology, electronics and the tool and building of forms from the automobile industry. 400 active patents possesses CERATIZIT world-wide. In the year 2006 the enterprise reached a sales volume of 540 millions euro and employed 4,000 coworkers.

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