Cutting Tools & Tooling

Wiha's new BiCut SuperCuts are available in three styles; Soft Grip, Two Component Industrial SoftGrip and 1000-volt Insulated Industrial Cushion Grip.

Tungaloy Corp. introduces TungFineBall, the new series of indexable endmills for high-precision finishing.

Emuge Corp. introduced a new solid-carbide Turbine end mills program for milling turbine blades, impellers, blisks and other complex 5-Axis components.

Knight Carbide Inc. offers precision-ground carbide inserts, indexable inserts, form tools and carbide cutting tools. According to the company, the tools provide accuracy and repeatability for blueprint applications, and the carbide grades, geometries, edge preparations and coatings are fine-tuned to enhance performance.

The CoroMill QD groove milling tools from Sandvik Coromant Co. are available with Silent Tools adapters for long-overhang machining. The through-coolant grooving and parting tools accept inserts with optimized geometries to effectively evacuate chips.

A better operation starts with better tools. Since its launch in 2013, Kennametal's NOVO digital process planning application has continued growing by supplying complete tool data and process knowledge electronically, reportedly saving process planners, cost estimators, and manufacturing engineers countless hours of catalog lookups and process guesswork. That same intelligence for driving new efficiencies is available on PC and tablet devices in the new Version 1.6.

Seco Tools LLC offers the Square T4-08 shoulder mill for roughing and semifinishing. The tool has four cutting edges and a tangential cutter design that imparts a fine surface finish when slotting, contouring and plunging, according to the company.

Dedicated for groove milling and parting off operations, CoroMill QD from Sandvik Coromant takes care of chip issues with optimized geometries and a unique internal coolant solution.

Dapra Corp.'s EDGE2 indexable cutting tools accept inserts with two cutting edges. The Spherical Ball Nose (SBN) series tools enable long, unattended finishing runs and enhanced tip cutting and 3D profiling, according to the company.

SpiroGrooving is a method for machining seal ring grooves developed by Sandvik Coromant that reportedly ensures high output of quality components and meets tough security demands.

Kaiser Tool Co. has expanded its line of Thinbit Deepgroove support blade-style tools. The new tools cut internal face grooves with major diameters that start at 1.574" (39.980mm) and a DOC to 1" (25.4mm).

M.A. Ford Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s Cyclone drill (CXD series) has an enhanced doublemargin design. This improves location when drilling intersecting through-holes and imparts fine hole finishes, and the back margin location allows for quick engagement in the hole, according to the company.