Medical & Healthcare

Manufacturing parts for the nuclear energy industry, which is growing globally, is expected to expand in the U.S. as well. Three shops explain their strategies to capitalize on the growing market.

Renishaw says Equator is a radical new alternative to traditional dedicated gaging, filling a gap in the market never before addressed.

Sandvik Coromant introduces a new range of small CoroMill Plura ball nose end mills for profiling in medium hard to hard steels.

Seco Tools has announced the availability of its new Feedmax SD230A solid carbide 30xD drill, which was designed for applications often found in the automotive, oil and gas, mold and die, medical and general engineering industries.

The O-INSPECT multisensor measuring machine from Carl Zeiss allows the very easy, very accurate and thus very efficient inspection of complex parts.

Shop Operations column for Cutting Tool Engineering's January 2011 issue addresses how the condition and maintenance of metalworking shops have a direct impact on efficiency and morale.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has introduced the new FANUC RoboCut iE Wire EDM Series, featuring a new power supply for highly accurate and efficient cutting performance in challenging materials.

DMG/Mori Seiki's NTX2000 integrated mill turn center is a new model in the range of the X-class machines that have been designed to meet the needs of today's machine tool users. The NTX2000 is a compact integrated mill turn center with a maximum workpiece size of 660mm x 1,540mm.

Stama America announces the introduction of its MC 726/MT-2C mill/turn, twin spindle machining centers for the automotive, fluid power, tooling, medical and other industries, where parts needs to be milled and turned in production operations.

Royal Machine & Tool Corp.'s steel bodied manual VTL large-diameter chucks are manufactured in the USA in sizes from 24" to 72" in diameter and are custom designed and built to customer requirements.

Rustlick is excited to announce the release of ULTRACUT Aero, a new premium water-soluble oil optimized for high-tech ferrous and nonferrous metals, including titanium, aluminum, Inconel and stainless steel, which are widely used in aerospace, medical and the electronics industries.

After a wrenching 2009, when parts manufacturers saw precipitous sales declines and orders and sales of machine tools and cutting tools also dropped sharply, the U.S. metalworking industry experienced a relatively strong recovery in 2010. Demand for manufactured products in developing markets, a rebound in the domestic auto market and inventory rebuilding by companies that had been holding off on orders helped fuel the recovery.