DC53 Cold Work Tool Steel Flat Bar
DC53 Cold Work Tool Steel is an improvement over alloy tool steel D-2 specified in Standard (JIS) G4404. It eliminates the disadvantages of insufficient hardness and toughness, resulting from high-temperature tempering found with D-2, and is intended to replace D-2 in use for general purpose and precision dies.
Typicak Application for DC53 Tool Steel:
-- Forming Dies
-- Thread Rolling Dies
-- Cold Forging Dies
-- Gauge
-- Plastic Molds
-- Steped Punch
-- Press Punching Dies
Dimensions
Block: 80-400 x 100-1000 mm
Delivery Condition
EAF+LF+VD+(ESR), Hot rolled or Forged, Spheroidizing Annealed, Black surface or Machined surface, UT SEP1921 Class3 D/d
Equivalence
AISI / SAE | DIN / W.Nr | JIS | GB | Daido |
~D2 | ~1.2379 | ~SKD11 | ~Cr12Mo1V1 | DC53 |
Chemical Composition(%)
Steel Grade | C | Si | Mn | P | S | Cr | Mo | V |
DC53 | 0.90-1.05 | 0.80-1.10 | 0.20-0.50 | ≤ 0.030 | ≤ 0.030 | 7.80-8.50 | 1.80-2.10 | 0.15-0.35 |
1.2379 | 1.45-1.60 | 0.10-0.60 | 0.20-0.60 | ≤ 0.030 | ≤ 0.030 | 11.00-13.00 | 0.70-1.00 | 0.70-1.00 |
D2 | 1.40-1.60 | 0.10-0.60 | 0.20-0.60 | ≤ 0.030 | ≤ 0.030 | 11.00-13.00 | 0.70-1.20 | 0.50-1.10 |
Characteristics
DC53 is a new general-purpose cold work die and mold steel whose strength and toughness approach those of high-speed steels.
DC53, is an improvement over alloy tool steel D-2 specified in Standard (JIS) G4404. It eliminates the disadvantages of insufficient hardness and toughness, resulting from high-temperature tempering found with D-2, and is intended to replace D-2 in use for general purpose and precision dies.
Benefits of DC53 Tool Steel
Higher hardness (62-64 HRc) than D2 after heat treatment.
Twice the toughness of D2 with superior wear resistance.
Substantially higher fatigue strength compared to D2.
Smaller primary carbides than D2 protect the die from chipping and cracking.
Secondary refining process (DLF) reduces impurities.
Machines and grinds up to 40% faster than D2.
Less residual stress after wire EDM.
Application
It is used for making stepped punch and press-punching dies, concrete sprayer parts, rotor plates swaging dies and backers, dies for cold forging, thread-rolling circular dies, piercing punch, thread-rolling dies for heat-treated bolts, forming dies, stripper plates for lead frame blanking, gauges, screws for injection molding








Q1: What is Ningbo Ningshing Precision Machinery Group Co., Ltd ?
A1: Ningbo Ningshing Precision Machinery Group Co., Ltd., formerly known as Ningbo Ningshing Special-Steel Group Co., Ltd., is the leading distributor of Special Steel, and also a professional mold base maker in China. Our business involves special steel trading, machining processing, mold base making, heat treatment, CNC machines manufacturing.
Q2: Are you a manufacturer or a trader?
A2: For Special Steel, we are the one of the leading distributors and service center in China. 9 warehouses with over 50,000 tons of regular stock. Our workshop has various kinds of equipments for sawing, milling, grinding, drilling etc.
For mold base, we are a professional manufacturer, with 24 sets of CNC machines, 3 axis and 5 axis, CMM for inspection. We produce medium-large sized mold base for plastic injection mold and die casting die.
Q3: How do you control the quality of steels?
A3: Firstly, we have very close and deep relationship with Chinese Prime Mills, choose supplier carefully, and regard them as the long term business partner. Based on the long term cooperation, we concentrate on special steel business and expand the market step by step. Secondly, we have own technical center which is formed by the experienced engineers and technicians whom ever worked for prime mills. We control the quality in production process, in-out warehouse.
Q4:: Which kind of processing can you do?
A4: We do machining processing like cutting, milling, grinding, turning, peeling, drilling, CNC machining. Meanwhile, we do vacuum heat treatment for die and mold.