Health and Safety

• Mechanical materials: Countless mechanical tools exposed to extreme wear and conditions utilize niobium carbide in various ways; tool bits for cutting tools, jet engine turbine blades, forging dies, rocket nozzles, high-temperature valves, and many other tools and applications make extensive use of this extremely hard material in one way or another.
• Additive: Adding niobium carbide powder to various compounds introduces any number of benefits, including direct improvements to durability, refractory properties, and hardness and adjustments to metallurgical processes, such as the inhibition of grain growth in carbides.
• Coatings. Niobium carbide powder is frequently applied for its refractory properties via chemical vapor deposition. Fields utilizing niobium carbide in this way include aeronautics and aerospace, nuclear reactors, and countless other high-stress environments.