American National Carbide - Product Support

Rock Drilling Grade Information

ANC offers its rock drilling products in a variety of different grades of carbide specially formulated for use in tough applications like oil and gas drilling, mining, tunneling, construction, and horizontal drilling. Click on the grade designation below for additional information.

GRADE	COBALT %	GRAIN SIZE	PRODUCTS
AN-2	6	Fine	Rectangular stabilizers
AN-1006	6	Medium	Spherical dome inserts for percussion and hammer bits
AN-106	6	Medium	Spherical dome inserts for percussion and hammer bits
AN-108	8	Medium	Compacts for percussion and hammer bits
AN-110	10	Coarse	Rotary drilling compacts, roller reamers, stabilizers and geophysical inserts for drag bits
AN-1010	10	Medium/Coarse	Rotary drilling compacts, roller reamers, stabilizers and geophysical inserts for drag bits
AN-1011	10	Coarse	Rotary drilling compacts, roller reamers, stabilizers and geophysical inserts for drag bits
AN-1012	12	Medium/Coarse	Rotary drilling compacts and geophysical inserts for drag bits
AN-1013	12	Coarse	Rotary drilling compacts and geophysical inserts for drag bits
AN-132	13	Medium	Rotary drilling compacts, PDC substrates
AN-16	16	Medium	Large diameter, large extension, rotary drilling compacts, PDC substrates

Grade Comparison Chart

ANC's rock drilling grade comparison chart provides a quick reference for selecting the ANC grade to use in place of the grade you're currently using. Click here to view the rock drilling grade comparison chart.

Other Grades

Click here to view information on ANC's selection of grades for metalworking applications.

American National Carbide

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