Fabrication & Cutting

Abrasive waterjet cutting machines are flowing into small shops as complementary equipment.

Get With The Program, a regular column in Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, covers how to extend tool life with dynamic toolpaths.

An upgraded line of blending, finishing, and polishing wheels that operate at higher RPMs for use in automated and hand finishing operations has been introduced by Rex-Cut Abrasives.

Guyson Corp. has introduced a lean robotic blast system that is designed for single-piece-flow processing of precision components and is offered with special adaptations for shot peening or surface preparation of turbine buckets and blades.

ALC 50 from Chemtool Inc. is a water-based, low-temperature alkaline cleaner and conditioner (contains biocidal additives) designed for the internal and external cleaning of metalworking fluid sumps and systems.

Weiler Corp. provides specialty brush deburring toolsw that feature advanced ceramic-grain filament technology.

CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels expanded its surface conditioning offerings, adding a line of surface preparation aluminum oxide and silicon carbide wheels and discs.

Coherent Inc. has extended its integrated laser machine tool product portfolio with its new META platform, offering improved performance and greater ease-of-use.

Metal chips and fines that collect in machine tool sumps and large central systems can now be effectively removed with Eriez Hydroflow's Solids-from-Liquid Centrifuges using media free filtration.

Part of Cutting Tool Engineering's IMTS 2012 preview, here is an overview of the machine tools and accessories that will be on display during the trade show.

The Look Ahead column in the August 2012 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering also features a "self-learning" control to automate abrasive waterjet milling.

Part of Cutting Tool Engineering's IMTS 2012 preview, here is an overview of the tooling and workholding products that will be on display during the trade show.