Cutting Tools & Tooling

Due to an optimized nanostructure that creates a balance of improved hardness, toughness, and resistance to residual stresses, BALINIT PERTURA from Oerlikon Balzers stands out as a universal coating solution for high-performance solid-carbide drills in a variety of drilling applications.

Successful high-feed milling is characterized as using small depths of cut at high federates per tooth, with the result being higher metal-removal rates and increased productivity. As opposed to traditional milling, high-feed milling generates lower radial cutting forces, making it an attractive concept for roughing, copy milling, profile milling, and other applications necessitating quick removal of metal, even where longer reach is required.

Seco Tool's new generation of Crownloc Plus exchangeable tip drills takes holemaking to the next level by increasing output and decreasing machining costs.

Walter LLC has expanded its popular line of Walter Titex X-treme deep-hole micro drills with three new high performance variants: the X-treme M, X-treme DM8 and the X-treme DM12.

Behringer has expanded its HBM series of high-performance bandsaws to include the new HBM-SC series.

Walter USA LLC has introduced the Walter Valenite F4050 cartridge type cutter, an innovative new approach to the challenges of high-speed milling of non-ferrous materials.

OSG Tap & Die Inc. has introduced the EXOPRO-S-XPF and OIL-S-XPF Tap Series, products for customers seeking superior machining stability and long tool life in a wide range of materials.

END USER: Marquardt Engineering Inc., (847) 669-0690, www.marquardt-eng.com. CHALLENGE: Eliminate chatter to prevent indexable inserts from blowing up and causing catastrophic tool body failure when drilling 4150 prehardened steel. SOLUTION: A new drill body and inserts.

Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc. is continuously pushing the envelope in productivity for hardened steel applications with its CBN technology. Sumitomo's most recent hardened steel turning advancement, the uncoated CBN grade BN2000, is no exception.

Peddinghaus Corp. offers a wide range of Eco-Line band saws for cutting of steel.

An air powered saw and track system which reportedly attaches easily to water wall boiler tube sections to produce square cuts that require no further rework is available from ESCO Tool.

GenSwiss now offers a full range of precision and ultra-precision saw arbors and solid carbide slitting saws.