CERATIZIT produces carbide bits for HILTI drills

CERATIZIT S. A., Mamer, Luxembourg (headquarters), July 2008.

HILTI, the CERATIZIT key-account customer in the field of stone working is based in the Principality of Liechtenstein. HILTI has been buying all carbide bits from the carbide expert CERATIZIT since 1985. As: on the interface between the drill and the base material the carbide from CERATIZIT shows its strength, thus ensuring long tool life. Jan Doongaji, Senior Vice President Business Unit Drilling & Demolition at HILTI states: “It is exactly the products made of carbide from CERATIZIT that customers perceive as distinctive.”

“In the 1990’s HILTI, the worldwide market and technology leader in the professional drill business, together with CERATIZIT developed the idea of launching a welded solid head drill. That was the hour of birth of an intensive development cooperation”, remembers Dr. Wolfgang Böhlke, Head of the Wear Part Development at CERATIZIT Luxembourg. The solid head solution of the HILTI drill is still unique today. There are no single carbide pins and tips which are inserted into the steel body, but only one head which is brazed or welded onto the steel body.