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Cutting Tool Engineering March 15, 2011

March 2011

March 2011 covers workholding and fixturing, plasma cutting, and digital manufacturing. It also looks at drilling and holemaking.

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CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING makes it easy to reach your customers! Our targeted, responsive and engaged readership gives you unparalleled access to the metalworking industry. Facts about CTE subscribers: 99% perform metalworking operations; 88% have responded to ads in CTE in the past 12 months; 81% page through CTE from front to back and 100% read.

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Cutting Tool Engineering

We Do the Legwork

CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING makes it easy to reach your customers! Our targeted, responsive and engaged readership gives you unparalleled access to the metalworking industry. Facts about CTE subscribers: 99% perform metalworking operations; 88% have responded to ads in CTE in the past 12 months; 81% page through CTE from front to back and 100% read.

We Do the Legwork CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING makes it easy to reach your customers! Our targeted, responsive and engaged readership gives you unparalleled access to the metalworking industry. Facts about CTE subscribers: 99% perform metalworking operations; 88% have responded to ads in CTE in the past 12 months; 81% page through CTE from front to back and 100% read some portion of the magazine. ReadexResearch 2010

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