Cutting Tools & Tooling

A right angle pipe and boiler tube machining tool has been upgraded with a new air motor which provides more torque at the cutter head and is easy to disassemble and clean is being introduced by ESCO Tool.

REGO-FIX has launched a cost-effective and efficient attachment for the application of coolant-lubrication liquids through the tool, based on an ER collet nut, which is ideal for use on SUHNER feed drilling units.

Designed like the Ott-Jakob type GD rotary union with permanently sealed surfaces, this newly developed rotary union from Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. also offers an integrated sensor that monitors leakage.

FLP Tooling's Applitec brand has launched its 2015-2017 product catalog with three new product lines added: Top-Watch, Trio-Line and Micro-Line. Top-Watch is a line of inserts and holders for micro machining ultrasmall parts, developed in collaboration with Swiss watchmakers. The Trio-Line boasts 3-sided inserts, including a set of grooving inserts for circlips, adhering to DIN 6799 and DIN 471 standards.

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc., Hoffman Estates, Ill., celebrates 25 years of North American operations in 2015. Incorporated in the spring of 1990 under the name Kaiser Precision Tooling (KPT), the subsidiary of Heinz Kaiser AG, Oberbüren, Switzerland, provided the North American market access to Kaiser's boring tools and modular boring systems.

New hybrid cermet inserts that significantly enhance abrasion and fracture resistance.

The Amacoil-Uhing Model RS drive nut provides smooth backlash-free linear motion in machine design.

Walter has introduced two new indexable insert cartridges for the Walter F2010 facemill.

Suitable for machining a variety of materials including steel, stainless steel, cast iron, copper and aluminium, the R459 from Dormer Pramet has been specifically developed to overcome problems typically associated with deep-hole drilling.

Optimized production conditions are an important factor for manufacturing cutting tools that are intended to meet not only the current challenges in metal processing, but also future ones as well. Tool manufacturer InovaTools from Kinding-Haunstetten, Germany, has reacted.

The new QC-160 Robotic Tool Changer, recently developed by ATI Industrial Automation, has a high moment capacity in a lightweight and compact design and utilizes the same proven Locking Mechanism as ATI's QC-200 Series.