Surface Finishing & Coating

Mitsubishi Materials has changed the stock status of coated cBN grade BC8020 from non-stock to stock standard.

A heat-treat process to anneal and bright age-harden stainless steels without breaking vacuum.

A high-ionization technology that enables enhanced customization of tool coatings.

Scotchman Metal Fabricating Solutions introduces the Scotchman Pipe Notcher by ALMI.

Metabo Corp. offers an electronic pipe and tube belt sander for burnishing, finishing and reconditioning steel, stainless steel, non-ferrous pipe and tube.

Dapra's series of Biax hand-held, air-powered tools include lightweight grinders and variable-speed deburring machines.

Sunnen's patented multi-feed honing technology gives gear manufacturers a choice of tool-feed modes to achieve the shortest cycle times, lowest part cost, and longest abrasive life.

A full line of cotton fiber mounted points that are ideally suited for EOAT (end-of-arm-tooling) in automated metal deburring and finishing applications is available from Rex-Cut Products Inc.

Guyson Corp. has integrated a machine-tending robot to automatically load and unload its RXS-900 rotary spindle blast system in an unmanned blast finishing work cell.

Guyson Corp. offers its Model TR-900 through-belt conveyor blast systems with an oscillator to provide reciprocating motion of the blast guns, reduce the number of nozzles required for uniform coverage and lower the blasting machine's compressed air requirements.

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Grooving hardened steel parts with PCBN cutting tools.