Ferrovanadium 80 Percent Vanadium Fine Powder Silver Black For High Speed Tool Steel Additive
Ferrovanadium 80 percent vanadium fine powder, displaying a distinctive silver-black appearance, is a premium FeV alloy designed specifically as an additive for high speed tool steel production. Also known as Ferro vanadium 80, FeV80, or FeVanadium 80, this Iron Vanadium Alloy contains approximately 80% vanadium, with the balance primarily iron and trace elements such as carbon, silicon, and aluminum.
The fine particle size and high vanadium concentration make it uniquely suited to applications where maximum carbide formation, hardness, and thermal stability are required. In high speed tool steels, tools are expected to retain cutting performance and dimensional accuracy even under intense heat and friction. The abundant vanadium in this Vanadium Iron Alloy powder reacts rapidly with carbon during steelmaking to form a dense dispersion of vanadium carbides (VC). These carbides are extremely hard and thermally stable, resisting coarsening at elevated temperatures.
As a result, the tool steel gains superior red hardness—the ability to stay hard while hot—and excellent wear resistance, prolonging tool life and maintaining sharpness in demanding machining operations such as milling, drilling, and turning.
The silver-black color of the powder arises from a mixture of metallic vanadium particles and thin surface oxides, indicating high reactivity and purity. Its fine granulation ensures rapid dissolution and uniform distribution in molten steel, avoiding localized enrichment that could cause uneven properties. Being a Ferrovanadium product, it also functions as a deoxidizer, helping to remove oxygen from the melt and produce cleaner, inclusion-free tool steel.
Suppliers typically offer FeV80 powder in tightly controlled particle size ranges (often below 75 µm) to suit electric arc, induction, or powder metallurgy processes. In FeVanadium alloy applications beyond tool steels, this powder can also enhance wear resistance in cemented carbides and certain high-temperature alloys. Handling requires care to limit airborne dispersion due to the high surface area of the fine particles.
