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ARCH Cutting Tools -- Your complete tool making authority

ARCH Cutting Tools continues to focus on their commitment to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Backed by a talented line up of experienced engineers to assist you in creating personalized custom tool solutions and fueled with an ever increasing standard, stocked high performance offering of cutting tools and holders. ARCH is your tool making authority. Jeff Cederstrom, the divisional President of ARCH Cutting Tools provides his insight into the unique cultural identity that is the base of their success.

Walter Cut MX grooving and parting off tool

The Walter Cut MX grooving and parting tool improves accuracy, stability and process reliability by improving on proven technology. The self-aligning, tangential clamping of the MX system and the dowel pin location in its insert seat result in greater precision and repeatability. Inserts are offered in five different geometry types with Tiger∙tec® Silver PVD coating for grooving, parting, profiling and thread turning.

Tungaloy Enhances T9200 Steel Turning Inserts with New Grades and Geometries

Tungaloy has expanded its T9200 CVD grade insert series to include T9205 and T9235 grades as well as the -TSF and -TM style chipbreakers. Both T9205 and T9235 provide outstanding wear resistance in the P05 and P35 application ranges surpassing existing CVD grades. These capabilities are possible due to Tungaloy’s innovative coating technologies, including:

Toolmaker helps lead U.S. manufacturing into a pivotal decade

According to the 2017 McKinsey report "Making it in America – Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing," the manufacturing industry is responsible for 35% of the nation’s productivity growth, 60% of its exports and about 70% of private sector R&D spending. These figures point to just how impactful American manufacturing is to the U.S. economy. Visionary American manufacturers have the opportunity to lead the evolution in this industry, which is the basis for the growth/investment strategy of ARCH Cutting Tools (ACT).

The world of Tungaloy -- a corporate overview

This corporate video offers an overview of Tungaloy Corp.'s origins and growth since its inception in 1929. Among the world’s leading manufacturers of carbide cutting tools, friction materials, wear resistant items, and civil engineering products, Tungaloy provides products to customers all over the world in automobile, construction, aerospace, medical, power generation, infrastructure, and heavy industries.

Making your own cutting tool

When making a cutting tool, I tend to think of a drill, endmill or other metalcutting tool being produced on a CNC tool and cutter grinder in a factory. A book by Bradley Richardson, however, describes how to make a different type of cutting tool with manual tools and equipment in a nonproduction environment. Published by Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, “Making Your Own Bush Knife: A Beginner’s Guide for the Backyard Knifemaker,” details the process of creating a custom knife.