Machining

Now there's a better way to brighten brass, copper, bronze nickel and silver while protecting the metal from re-tarnishing. It's called Presto Bright Dip, newly introduced by Birchwood Technologies, the metal finishing experts.

Blairsville, Pa. The National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) proudly announces the opening of its newest office in Huntsville, Ala., to provide enhanced support to and greater engagement with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Aviation & Missile Center in Redstone Arsenal, Ala.

FLORENCE, Ky. – As part of its continuous efforts to further expand its support of U.S. manufacturers with exceptional customer service and advanced manufacturing technology, Mazak Corporation has announced that Knox Machinery, located in Franklin, Ohio, will represent the company as its southern Ohio distributor, effective immediately.

Waconia, MN – Milltronics USA has named Hales Machine Tool, Inc. as its exclusive full service distributor for the state of Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Northwest Wisconsin, effective immediately.

Dr. Markus Flik, CEO, Chiron Group recently announced the appointment of Steve Morris as Chhiron America's new President and Chief Executive Officer effective immediately.

Across every industry, manufacturers are working to meet growing customer demand in a globally competitive market. Despite a widening skills gap, by organizing advanced technology into highly optimized work cells, manufacturers are maximizing productivity through automation.

Rigibore's ActiveEdge Apex revolutionises fine boring, operating as a fully integrated, closed-loop solution to automatically compensate as the tool wears.

Wire-cutting electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a mature technology, but GF Machining Solutions continues to push the limits of EDM with the new AgieCharmilles CUT AM 500 horizontal wire EDM. This fast, precise and automation-ready machine is dedicated to metal additive manufacturing (AM), making it easy to separate additively manufactured metal parts from the build plate while maintaining geometrical accuracy and ensuring assembly readiness.

A drill, a milling cutter, an ultimate machining strategy with perfectly tuned parameters; this is needed, when machining medical screws made from titanium or stainless steels. Mikron Tool developed a turnkey solution, which simultaneously does the machining of hex lobular bone screws (better known as Torx) 50% faster, guaranteeing also a high degree of precision of the profile and achieving nearly burr-free results.

Mitutoyo America Corp. announces the release of the QM-Height series high-performance height gauge to its small tools line. The QM-Height is used to measure height, height difference (step), inside/outside widths, inside/outside diameters, circle pitch, free-form surface maximum/minimum heights and height difference by scanning measurement.

Walter has introduced the M4130, a shoulder milling cutter that reduces costs through its ability to use Walter's universal M4000 system inserts in a variety of different applications. It's soft cutting action makes the M4130 shoulder milling cutter ideal for roughing operations involving steel, cast iron, stainless steels and materials with difficult cutting properties.

The new Star NXT linear CNC tool and cutter grinding machine sharpens both straight and spiral gash hob designs up to 8" OD x 10" OAL.