Cutting Tools & Tooling

Drew Strauchen, GWS Tool Group's executive vice president of marketing and business development, covers a wide variety of products for turning, threading, custom tooling, PCD tools, milling, custom inserts, holemaking and more.

Clay East, Iscar USA's national product manager for GRIP products, highlights Iscar's newest Swiss product, the Neo Swiss indexable interchangeable quickchange head.

Preben Hansen, president of Platinum Tooling Technologies Inc., features a variety of products from Heimatec, Tecnicrafts, Quick, Henninger and Rineck.

Jeff Paschall, regional sales manager for ZCC USA Inc., highlights the company's newest cutting tool products, including the EMP09 tangentially mounted cutter, the FMA17 45-degree cutter and more.

Joe Magee, Vargus USA's product manager for threading and thread milling, offers an overview of the company's newest products, including the Mach TT threading tools for lay down and thread milling.

Clive Komlenic, Mikron Tool's sales director, East, showcases the company' CrazyDrill Titanium PTC for pure titanium and the CrazyDrill Titanium ATC for alloyed titanium.

Chris Dixon, an application engineer for Kyocera SGS Precision Tools, highlights the new Hi-Percarb Series 146U/136U flat-bottom drills and the addition of a 12×D length to the Hi-Percarb Series 142P line.

John Weniger, the product manager for Allied Machine and Engineering's T-A Pro line, provides a brief overview and demonstration of the T-A Pro M geometry insert.

ISCAR introduces small diameter milling cutters with indexable inserts in the diameter range of 6 mm to 12 mm. These new tools provide an excellent alternative for other solid carbide endmills intended for diverse applications such as shoulder milling, pocketing, slotting and more.

The MD173 Supreme is a roughing cutter designed specifically for dynamic milling and for reducing machining time. Its cutting edges equipped with chip breakers enable excellent chip breaking, permitting superior process reliability with high metal removal rates, a plus for users with automated production processes. The MD177 Supreme is a finishing cutter that creates very smooth surfaces without "waterlines."

The unique PVD coating that is standard on all Greenleaf-360 end mills provides added productivity and performance. The coating offers a very low coefficient of friction with an extremely high service temperature range. This combination results in high wear resistance and allows for higher speed capabilities, especially in heat-resistant alloys.

Shops may be unaware of these ceramic cutter applications and developments.