American National Carbide was a privately held company that manufactured
tungsten carbide
Tungsten carbide (chemical formula: WC) is a chemical compound (specifically, a carbide) containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms. In its most basic form, tungsten carbide is a fine gray powder, but it can be pressed and formed into ...
products and was headquartered in
Tomball, Texas
Tomball ( ) is a city in Harris County in the U.S. state of Texas, a part of the Houston metropolitan area. The population was 12,341 at the 2020 U.S. census. In 1907, the community of Peck was renamed Tomball for local congressman Thomas Henry Ba ...
, which is just northwest of
Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
. Also known as "ANC," the company specialized in the production of finished carbide tools for metalworking, rock drilling, and wear applications and was one of a few companies worldwide that was able to recycle tungsten carbide scrap into raw material. ANC, a member of the United States Cutting Tool Institute, was founded in 1970 and sold its products worldwide.
In June 2012, American National Carbide announced a $2.5 million expansion of its raw material production operation.
In January 2023, ANC was forced to cease operations permanently. In August 2023, the company's principal owner, Greg Stroud, announced the launch of a newly formed entity, a manufacturer/distributor called AmeriServ Supply, which was established to service customers of American National Carbide by providing tungsten carbide cutting and wear products formerly produced by ANC.
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Production
American National Carbide products:
* ISO- and ANSI-standard indexable
metalworking
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...
inserts for turning, milling, threading, grooving, drilling and parting applications
* ISO- and ANSI-standard shims and chipbreakers for
metalworking
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...
operations
* Unfinished blanks for
metalworking
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...
inserts and brazed tools
* Inserts for rock drilling and mining, including compacts, nozzles, stabilizers, and hardfacing material
* Cutting and wear products for the primary and secondary
wood processing
Wood processing is an engineering discipline in the wood industry comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing.
The major wood pro ...
industries
* Specialized cutting tools for brake drum turning, railwheel truing, bar peeling, and small hole boring
* Blended tungsten carbide-cobalt powders for
cemented carbide
Cemented carbides are a class of hard materials used extensively for cutting tools, as well as in other industrial applications. It consists of fine particles of carbide cemented into a composite by a binder metal. Cemented carbides commonly use ...
manufacturers and the plasma spray industry
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External links
Company website
Manufacturing companies established in 1970
Tool manufacturing companies of the United States
1970 establishments in Texas