Tooling
Arch Cutting Tools Hires Arch Specials Business Development Coordinator
Charlie Novak Jr. previously spent seven years with Fives Landis – Citgo Diamond as a product manager.
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How AM Is Advancing into Cutting Tools: Photos from EMO
The design freedom of additive manufacturing delivers increased performance to cutting tools. At the world’s leading exposition for machine tools, I saw various examples of this.
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Dormer Pramet's SNGX11 Insert Enables High-Feed Milling in Steel
The double-sided SNGX11 insert from Dormer Pramet is capable of high-feed milling with a depth of cut ranging to 0.07".
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PCBN Inserts from Kennametal Make Hard Turning More Cost-Effective
Kennametal’s KBH10B and KBH20B grades, designed for hard turning, are available in double-sided inserts for materials as hard as 65 HRC.
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Tool Setting Fixture Boosts Process Security for High-Volume Shop
Along with switching to a different milling tool to improve surface finishes on aluminum parts, Alupress also employed Mapal's Uniset-P setting fixture to make the process reliable and efficient.
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Drilling and Chamfering Tool Solves Machine Shop's Vexing Problem
An oil & gas part with a lot of holes required that Utex use two different tools to ensure burr-free inner and outer diameters. With Heule’s Vex-S tool, the shop realized time savings per cycle of an entire minute by performing drilling and chamfering in a single step.
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Temperature-Activated Adhesive Overcomes Limits of Magnetic and Vacuum Workholding
This new chemistry-based solution for five-sided machining allows for a diversity of metals and other workpiece materials to be used along with aggressive cutting forces.
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Horn's Supermini Gets an Insert Geometry for Drilling, Boring, Face Turning and Skimming
Designed for the Supermini tool system, Horn’s HP geometry is suitable for drilling, boring, face turning and skimming.
Read MoreSpeedgrip Chuck Co. Appoints New Sales Representatives
In the face of retiring sales reps, the company has announced two new representatives covering the territories of Indiana, Michigan and Ontario.
Read MoreForkardt Acquires Soft-Touch Workholding IP for Thin-Walled Parts
Designed by General Manufacturing Systems, the technology is said to accommodate machining of aluminum die-cast materials and thin-walled components where part deformation is a concern.
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