MSC Industrial Supply Co. is significantly expanding its Hertel line of metalworking products. This expanded offering features a wide range of new tools, including material-specific turning insert grades, spotting drills, combined drill and countersink tools as well as additional solid carbide roughing end mills. In addition to these enhancements, a threading solution has been added to the company's proprietary cutoff and grooving system to help drive greater efficiencies.

"We are constantly looking for opportunities to bring new solutions to market that will not only meet our customers' needs, but help them optimize their businesses," said Brian McGrath, MSC's Senior Product Manager for Hertel. "We recognized the need for more enhanced lines of Hertel tooling in response to our customers evolving needs. Hertel is synonymous with performance, increased productivity, cost control and profitability, and it was our goal to give them more selection to achieve their business goals."

Hertel has historically offered a full line of general turning inserts in common geometries, sizes and multiple grades. Its portfolio includes high-speed steel, cobalt and carbide drills in a variety of lengths, such as jobber, screw machine and taper. Threading products are available in general purpose hand, spiral point and spiral fluted taps with taper, plug or bottoming chamfers. Hertel offers a full line of general purpose end mills, including roughing, ball nose, square end, 2-flute, 3-flute, multi-flute and double-ended products.

The range of expanded tooling now also includes:

• Hertel turning insert products, including HC115T turning grade for steel, HP410T/HT410T grades for nonferrous materials, and HP510T grade for high temperature alloys. The new grades are available in a comprehensive selection of insert shapes and chip control geometries for fine finishing, medium, and roughing applications. In addition we've also added our next generation of insert grades which include HC1250T, HP225T, HC405T and HC315T. These new grades and chip breaker geometries work across a wide variety of applications, including steel, stainless steels and cast iron.

• HertelNotch is the new comprehensive grooving and threading platform which includes inserts, tool holders and spare parts, all designed to cover a wide range of materials.

• A threading solution adds to MSC's cut-off and grooving system, increasing its flexibility and effectiveness. The system incorporates various combinations of inserts, blades and monoblock tool holders that enable tooling to be exactly tailored to specific production needs. Customers can select from material-specific grades to drive the most productivity in various work piece materials.

• More than 250 new Hertel spotting drills and combined drill and countersink tools join the hole-making tool line. With 60ÌÜÅÁ, 90ÌÜÅÁ and 120ÌÜÅÁ point geometries, the HSS and cobalt tools can meet a wide range of application requirements.

• Added versions of workhorse M42 cobalt roughing end mills include new sizes, coatings and fine and coarse roughing geometries.