Cutting Tools & Tooling

News • July 27, 2021

Vollmer of America and Transor Filter USA enter new agreement

To kick off this agreement, Transor will provide a filtration system to serve two saw blade grinding machines at Vollmer's headquarters in Pittsburgh.

Videos • July 26, 2021

Greenleaf’s XSYTIN®-360 Ceramic End Mills

Greenleaf's XSYTIN®-360 ceramic end mills combine Greenleaf's phase-toughened XSYTIN®-1 substrate with a unique cutting geometry that offers ten times higher productivity and tremendous cost savings.

Videos • July 26, 2021

Extreme Drilling from Guhring

Designed for extreme drilling in steels, Guhring's RT100 XF drill family delivers. The carbide grade developed for the RT100 XF balances hardness and toughness.

Videos • July 26, 2021

Smooth Cutting Interlocking Inserts

Overlapping inserts allow Ingersoll's NuMaxILock to produce smooth chip formation at high-feed rates while high axial shear provides smooth chip formation. Tangentially mounted inserts with dovetailed seating provide greater cutter reliability and insert stability.

Videos • July 26, 2021

Feed the Speed with TungFeed-Blade

Tungaloy's TungFeed-Blade is an extremely rigid modular blade series for grooving and parting applications. TungFeed-Blade consists of a triangular CHGP style modular blade with three insert pockets which holds a CHTBR/L robust style tool block. Intended for high feed grooving and parting, the TungFeed-Blade system extends insert life, improves surface finish, and part straightness, while significantly reducing cycle time.

Videos • July 23, 2021

Makino, Mastercam, Helical Solutions achieve aggressive material removal rate

CNC Software Inc., Helical Solutions LLC and Makino Inc. — a software developer, cutting tool maker and machine builder, respectively — share the results of their joint R&D project that began with an email introducing a new high-efficiency six-flute endmill with a chipbreaker. This report is a video supplement to the Get With The Program column in the August 2021 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

News • July 22, 2021

ANCA 2021 Tool of the Year contest deadline nears

Now in its fourth year, ANCA Tool of the Year has raised the profile of cutting tools and those companies who make them.

Products • July 22, 2021

Taps and Threading Tools

As the name suggests, cutting taps produce threads by progressively cutting away the space between threads into which the fastener's external threads will fit. Forming taps, by contrast, remove no material. Instead, they move or displace material inside the hole to build up the threads and dig into the grooves.

News • July 21, 2021

Okuma America welcomes PDQ Workholding to Thinc network

The manufacturer of custom cutting tools joins more than 40 companies participating in the Thinc network.

News • July 20, 2021

Ceratizit acquires remaining shares of former Best Carbide

The Ceratizit Group acquisition of the remaining shares allows the Group to further expand its footprint and accelerate a growth strategy in the cutting tools market, specifically in high-end micro tools.

Products • July 16, 2021

C6027 ultra-compact Industrial PC (IPC)

In the initial variant, which features a total of nine Ethernet ports, the C6027 is ideally suited as an IoT or security gateway for connecting different machine and system modules. The IPC is Microsoft Azure™ Certified and AWS qualified for use in cloud-based platforms. In addition to this edge computing functionality, the C6027 also provides machine builders and end users with a powerful and extremely compact controller, measuring 82 x 127 x 69 mm. Supported by diverse, flexible mounting options, the device can fit in almost every control cabinet and machine concept.

Products • July 16, 2021

ISO-EcoTurn GNMG and FNMG Inserts

ISO-EcoTurn's GNMG and FNMG inserts each features a reduced nose angle of 70 degrees and 45 degrees, compared with traditional CNMG and DNMG inserts. The increased clearance on the cutting edge allows better chip flow and reduced chip re-cutting issues when face turning the wall. Reduced nose angle also contributes to lower cutting force, minimizing unpredictable tool failure and chatter during machining.