Cutting Tools & Tooling

HEULE Precision Tools allows back spot facing for bore diameters to 45mm, with large widths of cuts. Now spotfacings or counterbores such as screw head counterbores can be cost effectively machined on the back side of the workpiece without rotating the workpiece, thus avoiding time-consuming clamping and repositioning.

Sandvik Coromant Co. hosted its 2026 TechDays May 6-7 at the toolmaker’s U.S. headquarters in Mebane, North Carolina. The event included machine demonstrations, seminar presentations and production unit tours.

Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc., the exclusive importer of Heimatec live tools and angle heads, offers a variety of complementary products designed to enhance the capabilities of Swiss CNC lathes, including popular brands as Citizen, Star and Tsugami.

Emuge-Franken USA, a manufacturer of high-performance taps, thread mills, end mills, drills, gages, other rotary tools, and precision clamping solutions, is collaborating with GibbsCAM and Matsuura to host a 5-Axis Machining Live Demo Event. The event takes place on May 21, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Emuge-Franken Technology Center, 1800 Century Drive, West Boylston, Massachusetts.

Eurotech Elite's Trofeo BMX Series delivers dual spindles at 10K RPM, 15 HP driven tools, and 15-station turrets supporting up to 110 tools. The Trofeo BMX features a direct-drive turret system, which is a tool-holding mechanism designed for rapid indexing, high precision, and maximum rigidity in multi-axis CNC turn-mill centers.

800-338-0276 www.tritecmfg.com Heule Tool Corp.

High-quality toolholders reduce multi-flute endmill problems during aggressive machining strategies.

To promote the new Xtra·tec S3 milling cutter series, Phillip Smith, product manager rotating indexable at Walter AG, who’s based in Canada, presented a digital press conference April 22. Walter USA LLC is located in Greer, South Carolina.