Fabrication & Cutting

Norton Abrasives has introduced Norton NorZon BlueFire F826 Fiber Discs for the metal fabricating industry.

A kit for metal fabricating shops that includes three types of specialty abrasive wheels for grinding, blending and cutting stainless steel is available from Rex-Cut Products Inc.

Designed with the water jet contractor in mind, Jet Edge's High Flow Abrasivejet delivers up to 3.5 pounds per minute (5.95 L/min) of abrasive and up to 8.6 gallons per minute (31.15 L/min) of ultra-high pressure water for abrasive water jet cutting applications.

Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing new and improved version of our 4-Axis Precision Mount for the Laser Microgage line.

The Freddy Ecovac 200 from Sanborn Technologies is a versatile sump cleaner that can provide both suction and discharge of fluids at the same time.

A new line of flexible, cotton fiber abrasive wheels for deburing, blending, and finishing a wide variety of machined, cast, and stamped metal parts is being introduced by Rex-Cut Products Inc.

Abanaki Corp.'s TubeTastic! oil skimmer is for use on machining centers with little or no access to the coolant sump from above.

E-Z Burr's small-hole carbide series tools deburr the front and back of a hole in a single pass, and deburr hole diameters as small as 0.125".

A new series of aftermarket OEM-quality cavity and beam delivery mirrors for Trumpf lasers that are available from stock with 24-hour delivery is being introduced by Laser Research Optics.

Sound hoods for automated deburring and finishing equipment, to help industrial companies provide a safer, more comfortable environment for workers while achieving noise levels that meet regulatory agency requirements, are now available as standard and custom units from ALMCO Inc.

Mitsubishi Laser introduced a higher wattage 4.5kW resonator for all 2D lasers, replacing the formerly standard 4.0kW resonator.

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.