Cutting Tools & Tooling

Products • March 17, 2020

OptiMill-SPM-Rough and OptiMill-SPM-Finish Milling Cutters

MAPAL is expanding its portfolio in the area of high-performance milling cutters in the OptiMill family for aluminium and steel machining. The full potential of new, powerful machines can be used with the new OptiMill-SPM milling cutters "Rough" and "Finish." They exploit their strengths especially during the machining of structural parts made of aluminium.

Products • March 16, 2020

Innoform–Steel-M Forming Taps

Emuge Corp. has introduced Innoform–Steel-M, a line of HSSE-PM taps for forming threads with improved surface quality, while increasing static and dynamic thread strength, in medium strength steels up to 44 HRC.

Articles • March 13, 2020 • Christopher Tate

Cut waste at the machine tool

Palletization and other lean methods reduce the time spent not making chips.

Products • March 4, 2020

MU5 Double-Sided Indexable Insert

Walter has introduced the MU5 double-sided indexable insert for turning operations. The insert can be used universally both for steel forged parts and also for stainless materials.

Products • March 3, 2020

Model HFL-2018-2IQ Mentor Vacuum Furnace

Solar Manufacturing shipped a Mentor vacuum furnace to Virginia, for a customer servicing the tool and die industry. The Model HFL-2018-2IQ features a graphite-insulated hot zone, a load weight capacity up to 250 lbs. and a maximum operating temperature of 2400° F.

Products • March 3, 2020

DeepTri-Drill Line of Indexable Gundrills

Tungaloy is expanding its DeepTri-Drill line of indexable gundrills to cover diameters ranging from 37.0 mm to 40.0 mm.

Articles • March 2, 2020

Fight coolant foaming

Subdue excessive foaming in metalworking.

Products • March 2, 2020

EcoShield VpCI-144 Moisture-Barrier Paper

EcoShield VpCI-144 is one of the latest additions to Cortec's growing portfolio of over 30 USDA-certified biobased products. EcoShield VpCI-144 can now display a unique USDA label showing it contains 69% USDA-certified biobased content. This is the portion of the product that comes from a renewable source, such as plant, animal, marine or forestry feedstocks.

Products • February 25, 2020

40 P Plasma Cutter

The Forney 40 P Plasma Cutter is the ideal choice for heavy-duty cutting. This machine is capable of dual-voltage, allowing users to work wherever 120V and 230V power is available. The 20' torch included with this unit allows great reach and a large working envelope for maximum convenience and comfort.

Products • February 21, 2020

JC899 Hybrid Stack Finisher and JC898 Rougher

For aerospace shops struggling with holemaking and milling operations in hybrid stacked materials, the new JC899 Hybrid Stack finisher and JC898 rougher from Seco Tools are ideal solutions. The finisher, JC899, features a patented two-in-one geometry that eliminates problems with delamination and fiber pulling out when working with stacked materials such as carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) combined with titanium or aluminum.

Videos • February 20, 2020

Tungaloy enhances steel turning performance with new T9200 grade series

Tungaloy's CVD grades in the T9200 series offer outstanding performance in steel turning. This new generation of grades features Tungaloy's innovative PremiumTec post surface treatment technology making T9200 hard to break.nn

Products • February 20, 2020

AH9130 Drill Head Grade Series

Tungaloy is expanding its AH9130 drill head grade series to include the DMP drill head line of the DrillMeister head-changeable drill series.