Cutting Tools & Tooling

As the aerospace, automotive and mold and die industries trend toward monolithic components and large structures, there is a growing need for large-travel machining centers. To accommodate large-volume machining, Haas Automation Inc. has expanded the capacity of its EC-1600 horizontal machining center with an additional 10" of Y-axis travel.

Knuth Machine Tools USA Inc. carries a variety of machines, including high performance bandsaws with automatic feed. The ABS 320C is a fully automated bandsaw with a twin column guide system.

Seco Tools Inc. has added Combimaster heads to its line of Square 6 square shoulder milling cutters.

Pat Mooney Inc., The Saw Company announces a new addition to its FMB line of automatic band saws, the Pegasus CNC.

Iscar Metals Inc. says it has improved its line of CUT-GRIP and HELI-GRIP groove/turn tools with a new CVD-coated substrate that doubles tool life while raising productivity by 15 percent.

Primary Cutter LLC has added 7-flute endmills to its Supermill high-performance carbide endmill line.

Iscar Metals Inc. says its 11mm profiling insert does the job of a bigger one, thus enabling finer-pitch cutters for smoother profiling and lower chip loads.

Tools, machinery and equipment with the versatile Dayton Electric Rotary Engraver from Grainger. This rotary tool can etch fine lines to deep grooves in metal, plastic, glass, ceramic or wood.

Appropriate scenarios for applying a reamer when finishing holes.

Superabrasive tools can be applied to efficiently machine carbon fiber-reinforced plastics.

Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp., Cutting Tool Div. announced its new CA4505 and CA4515 CVD-coated carbide grades of indexable cutting tool inserts for machining gray and nodular (ductile) cast iron.

Where applications demand precise thread quality and improved threadmaking productivity, Widia offers its new high-performance WIDIA-GTD HSS-E taps.