Milling

New from Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc., the SumiMill GOALMILL Milling Cutter finishes cast iron with exceptional accuracy.

Widia has added tool bodies and inserts to its Victory M1200 series for facemilling steel, stainless steel, high-strength steel, cast iron and nonferrous materials.

Machine Technology column for the September 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.

Seco Tools' new Power 4 copy milling cutter has been developed in cooperation with customers in the power generation sector to create an optimized solution for turbine blade production.

Emuge Corp. announced the introduction of TiNox-Cut, a new series of end mills specifically developed to provide exceptional tool life when machining challenging materials.

Sandvik Coromant has released a free application designed to provide engineers and machinists with a convenient resource for calculating cutting data.

Korloy America Inc.'s HRMDouble Mill series cutting tools accept inserts with six cutting edges. According to the company, the cutting edge's high rake angle enables high-feed machining and improves multifunctional machining, which also reduces the cutting load.

Mil-Tec's Magna-Shear geometry is ground on all insert surfaces and has a premolded chip-clearing formation.

Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp., Cutting Tool Div.'s MFPN facemill accepts PNMU inserts, which have a double-sided, pentagonal design that provides 10 cutting edges per insert.

SCHUNK Inc.'s TENDO-ES is a short hydraulic expansion toolholder, which allows the tool to be clamped directly in the mounting taper.

REGO-FIX is introducing the new REGO PLUS line of toolholders. Fully compatible with all BIG PLUS spindles, these new toolholders are licensed by BIG Daishowa.

Machine Technology column for the August 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering.