TungdrillTwisted Drill
Tungaloy Corp. announces the expansion of newly designed drill bodies and new insert grades for TungdrillTwisted.
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Cutting Tools & Tooling
MSC expands Accupro portfolio
MSC Industrial Supply Co., Melville, N.Y., a distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services, is expanding its portfolio of metalworking products from Accupro, Davidson, N.C. The new line adds more than 3,000 new precision-engineered metalworking tools to the existing 20,000 Accupro products MSC currently offers.
Intrepid releases new tool catalog
Intrepid Tool Industries, Surprise, Ariz., has released its new 2015/2016 full-line catalog, showing the company's current offering of drills, reamers and countersinks for machining composites, aluminum, titanium and other aerospace materials. Additions include a new series of "W" point drills, combination drill/countersinks, porting tools with through-tool coolant holes and a full line of PCD drills and countersinks. For more information, call (800) 998-6565 or visit www.intrepidtool.com.
KAISER, BIG Daishowa strengthen alliance
KAISER Precision Tooling Ltd., Rümlang, Switzerland, reports that it has strengthened its long-term partnership, BIG Daishowa Seiki Co. Ltd., Japan, by agreeing to be acquired by the BIG Daishowa group as of April 15. KAISER Precision Tooling, a supplier of modular boring tools, and BIG Daishowa Seiki, a producer of toolholders and measurement devices, have had a technology and distribution partnership since 1980.
BIG Kaiser boosts repair services
BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling, Hoffman Estates, Ill., has enhanced its BIG Profit Maker, KAISER and Unilock repair services by bringing services in-house that, until recently, were performed overseas. The company is also eliminating charges for some commodity parts, as well as offering same-day services.
Azure MicroDynamics provides manufacturing services
Azure MicroDynamics Inc., Lake Forest, Calif., is a manufacturing, machining and assembly facility specializing in small and micro components with tolerances as tight as 0.0002" for medical devices and other products. Incorporating micromachining processes that include multi-axis milling and turning, Azure is capable of producing low-volume prototype quantities as well as high-volume production, according to the company.
Tungaloy opens new facility in Japan
Tungaloy Corp. completed an additional production building at its headquarters in Iwaki, Japan. The new facility is added on to the existing manufacturing complex, which opened in 2011, and will help meet growing demand for cemented carbide inserts, milling tools, and indexable drills, according to the company.
A cool break
A PCD milling cutter that combines a patented chipbreaker and direct cooling through the cutting face.
Professional profiles
When grinding complex cutting tool profiles, attention should be paid to the software, the wheel and the tool blank for best results.
Duratomic Inserts for Turning Steel
With the unveiling of its next-generation Duratomic Technology, Seco Tools LLC introduces three new turning insert grades that achieve the elusive balance of toughness and hardness when machining steel alloys and other workpiece materials such as cast irons and stainless steels.
HBE Dynamic Horizontal Bandsaw
Behringer Saws Inc. has introduced the HBE Dynamic series horizontal bandsaw.
B4031.C Boring Bar
Walter has introduced a reduced weight version of its Walter Precision<sup>MEDIUM</sup> B4031.C with the Walter Capto modular toolholding interface.