Cutting Tools & Tooling

Gleason Corp. announces the introduction of the 100S gear shaping machine, featuring a stroke rate of up to 3,000 strokes per minute.

On Oct. 16, Sandvik Coromant Co. celebrated the opening of a Productivity Center in its new U.S. headquarters in Fair Lawn, N.J. The company held a grand opening ceremony for the headquarters on July 1.

ANSI insert identification codes describe insert shape, clearance, tolerance, type, size, thickness, and edge features. This guide explains how to read the naming system used for indexable inserts.

BENZ Inc., Charlotte, N.C., has released new catalogs for its Solidfix, CAPTO and Trifix modular quick-change tooling systems. BENZ specializes in tooling systems for turning and milling machines such as live and static tools, angle heads, multi-spindle heads, spindle speeders, large scale drill heads, 5-axis heads, and its lines of modular tooling systems.

Toolmaker Walter USA LLC, Waukesha, Wis., has expanded its Walter Xpress line to include specials with the addition of indexable insert tools for drilling, boring and counterboring.

Wohlhaupter Corp. has introduced its PrimeBore precision boring head in kit form.

Walter has added additional sizes and designs to its Walter Cut-SX single-edged grooving system for grooving and parting.

Walter has expanded its Tiger-tec Silver range of indexable inserts with three new ISO P geometries, all possessing a positive cutting edge design.

With the high demands of today's market for the latest innovative technology, Sodick Inc. reports it is continuously working on R&D for new machines that are faster, more accurate and achieve a greater surface finish. The most recent machine to be added to Sodick's line-up is the VZ500LH.

ESAB's Global Center of Excellence for Gas Apparatus announces a new copper finish for its OXWELD series of high-performance acetylene, alternate fuel, specialty cutting and steel industry products tips included in its gas apparatus product line.

Without some sort of "turbo" attachment, you won't get far trying to dry-machine Inconel or titanium with a conventional end mill. In the form of the universal end mill series Turbomax, tool manufacturer InovaTools has reportedly delivered a multi-talented product.