Walter to feature expanded cutting tool line at Eastec

Walter to feature expanded cutting tool line at Eastec

Walter's exhibit will feature a huge expansion to the Prototyp brand Advance and Supreme line of solid-carbide endmills.

Aerospace People & Companies
April 4, 2023

Walter, the Greer, S.C.-based cutting tool manufacturer, will showcase its latest technologies at EASTEC '23. The show in West Springfield, Mass., runs from May 16-18.

Walter offers a range of precision tools for milling, turning, boring, reaming, tapping, coun…" title="Operation in which a rotating tool is used to create a round hole in a workpiece. boring, reaming, tapping, coun…" title="Operation in which a rotating tool is used to create a round hole in a workpiece. Drilling is normally the first step in machining operations such as boring, reaming, tapping, coun…" aria-label="Glossary: drilling">Drilling is normally the first step in machining operations such as boring, reaming, tapping, coun…" aria-label="Glossary: drilling">drilling and threading applications. In addition, the company says it works together with its customers to develop optimum solutions for fully machining components for use in the aerospace industry, as well as automotive, energy, and general engineering.

The Walter exhibit will feature an expansion to the Prototyp brand Advance and Supreme line of solid carbide end mills:

  • Over 3000 new inch-size products
  • Full line of applications and materials:
    --Heavy cuts, deep slotting, long axial depth profiling, 5-axis cavity work
    --Advance line for Steel, Stainless, and Cast Iron
    --Supreme line for Titanium and Nickel base alloys
    --Advance line for Aluminum and Lightweight materials

In addition to the new end mill line, the Walter exhibit will also feature:

  • Walter Blaxx family of high-performance indexable milling cutters
  • Walter Cut SX grooving system, with self-gripping, form-locking indexable inserts that provide ideal cutting force for the tool
  • New Tiger·tec Gold high-performance cutting material for steel milling, turning and drilling

Also featured will be Walter's expansion to its range of tough, reliable and long-life standard solid carbide deep-hole drills

Further, the company will feature its new range of Walter counterboring and precision boring tools for diverse machining applications.

The exhibit will also demonstrate the Walter Online catalog and its tool-specific search capabilities, Walter GPS to find optimum machining solutions.

Glossary terms in this article

  • counterboring
    Enlarging one end of a drilled hole. The enlarged hole, which is concentric with the original hole, is flat on the bottom. Counterboring is used primarily to set bolt heads and nut…
  • cutting force
    Engagement of a tool’s cutting edge with a workpiece generates a cutting force. Such a cutting force combines tangential, feed and radial forces, which can be measured by a dynamom…
  • profiling
    Machining vertical edges of workpieces having irregular contours; normally performed with an endmill in a vertical spindle on a milling machine or with a profiler, following a patt…
  • threading
    Process of both external (e.g., thread milling) and internal (e.g., tapping, thread milling) cutting, turning and rolling of threads into particular material. Standardized specific…
  • drilling
    Operation in which a rotating tool is used to create a round hole in a workpiece. Drilling is normally the first step in machining operations such as boring, reaming, tapping, coun…
  • grooving
    Machining grooves and shallow channels. Example: grooving ball-bearing raceways. Typically performed by tools that are capable of light cuts at high feed rates. Imparts high-qualit…
  • slotting
    Machining, normally milling, that creates slots, grooves and similar recesses in workpieces, including T-slots and dovetails.
  • carbide
    Compound of carbon and one or more metallic elements. For cutting tools, tungsten carbide, titanium carbide, tantalum carbide or a combination of these in a cobalt or nickel matrix…
  • milling
    Machining operation in which metal or other material is removed by applying power to a rotating cutter. In vertical milling, the cutting tool is mounted vertically on the spindle…
  • turning
    Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery…
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