General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Abrasive Technology LLC has named Guy Topping as its managing director of Abrasive Technology Ltd.

Lockable indexing plungers GN 814 of stainless steel have the same basic functions as JW Winco's tried and tested selection of indexing plungers. What's new is the clever addition of a locking function for greater safety and security. This is accomplished with a lock integrated into the black plastic head. On types A and AK, the plunger pin is secured in the front position by turning the key 180 degrees and removing it.

Representatives from ANCA and Fravic Daunert signed a distribution contract at IMTS 2022 to sell ANCA products in portions of Mexico.

Lotus Cars Ltd. is known for the design and manufacture of high-performance cars born out of legendary success on the racetrack. Its latest sports car, the Emira, is by far the most accurate model ever built by Lotus thanks to the use of a 5-axis HC-90TR twin-arm coordinate measuring machine from LK Metrology.

Parts cleaning is critical to achieving precision, process reliability and high efficiency in processes and production technologies.

The production of high-precision parts with complex interior geometries requires top quality along the entire production chain. In order to be optimally prepared for future cleanliness requirements, a Swedish manufacturer replaced one of its existing solvent cleaning systems. They chose an Ecoclean EcoCcompact fitted with Ultrasonics PLUS, to mention only one of the system's features.

Power skiving is the fastest-growing method of gear machining.

The research and development team at Blaser Swisslube, a Swiss expert in metalworking fluids, set about planning and implementing an idea to capture a machining process, chip formation and the behavior of the metalworking fluid more precisely than ever before through photos and videos. The idea came about as part of a joint project with the renowned ETH Zurich.

Vomat developed a new air conditioning unit that converts excess energy from production and peripheral machines, such as grinding machines, oil extraction systems and machine pumps, and can then use it to heat or cool the production hall.

ANCA USA, a manufacturer of CNC grinding machines, has named Amanda Bakun to the newly created position of marketing and communications manager for the Americas.

Big Daishowa will donate a tooling certificate valued at 20 percent of every order from an NTMA member company to the buyer's school of choice.

Column construction uses stress relieved, class 40 cast iron, with the base and sides milled flat, perpendicular, and parallel within .001"/ft. providing an accurate foundation on which to setup workholding devices or quick-change systems. What does this spec translate to for customer use? Other features include a center locating bore, inch, and metric hole patterns, M12 lifting holes for secure hoist ring attachment.