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Impressions of IMTS 2010

Given what we’ve experienced since the last IMTS, this was a wonderfully uplifting show.

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Aerospace

Titanium Calls for a Tight Hold on the Tool

Haimer’s SafeLock System provides pull-out protection for tools in high performance cutting such as the machining of titanium.

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Milling Tools

Industry’s First General Purpose, High Performance Tap

(Sponsored Content) MultiTAP from Emuge is the industry’s first high performance tap designed to cut a wide range of materials including carbon steel, steel alloys, stainless steel, aluminum, cast iron, copper, brass, and bronze. MultiTAP is also uniquely designed to produce threads within both 2B and 3B classes of fit, eliminating the guesswork of calculating H-limits.

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In the Strongest Companies, the Only Constant is Change

Perhaps more than at any previous IMTS, the strongest growing metalworking companies that attended this year’s show were looking for change.

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IMTS 2010 Is Retired Exec’s 24th Show

Albert Albrecht holds his recent book about the machine tool industry in the United States.

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Accurate Five-Axis

Mitsui Seiki's Vertex 750-5X is a scaled-up version of its successful high speed, high precision five-axis vertical machining center.

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Extra Security for Milling Titanium

The weak link in heavy milling of titanium is often the toolholder.

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Life-Sized (and Lifelike) Virtual Employees

Virtual employees offer greetings at every corner of the Makino booth.

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Give Me a Show of Hands

It’s accepted pretty universally that metalworkers are tough hombres.

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Good Old-Fashioned High Tech

What’s this 1930’s lathe built by Moody in Quebec, Canada doing in Heidenhain’s IMTS booth?

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Through-Insert Coolant Delivery Introduced

The cutaway model of an insert shows the channels for coolant delivery.

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Give That CMM a Rest—Let the Probe do the Work

Using the motion of the head rather than the CMM axes can enable users to take point measurements faster and more accurately, the company says.

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