General Shop Equipment & Supplies

Arch Cutting Tools expands its solid round cutting tool portfolio with a new business acquisition.

Shop seeks to overcome EDM bottlenecks when producing complex molds.

Even with its drawbacks, laser machining will continue to find new industrial applications.

Sandvik Coromant is strengthening its position within the solid round tools segment and continues to invest in new facilities and production capabilities in the U.S. market.

Walter USA LLC has assumed governance of the round tool production unit in Greer, South Carolina, through an intra-company transfer within the Sandvik Group. Having a dedicated production facility in the U.S. will enable Walter to provide both better responsiveness to customer demand as well as improve supply chain security.

Jon Dreher has been named general manager at H.B. Carbide.

The extremely compact machine bed of the travelling column machining centres is a heat-treated, welded steel structure that provides a torsion-resistant and stable base for all components and machining operations. The production of large and heavy workpieces up to 8,000 kg is enabled by a powerful motor spindle with 46 kW spindle power, a torque of up to 170 Nm and a spindle speed of up to 15,000 rpm (18,000 rpm HSK-A63). Both spindle versions are grease-lubricated. The new versions of the previous model support complete machining of very long and heavy workpieces without reclamping.

ShopBot continues to believe that everyone should be able to successfully employ the capabilities of CNC—making small- to medium-size shops competitive in today's market. That often can include configurations that make the tool better suited to the customer's production needs.

Mitee-Bite Products introduces the Pitbull® Wear Plate. This shim provides a hard barrier between Pitbull® Clamp and fixture, preventing distortion of back wall when using aluminum or mild steel fixtures.

Rollomatic and Strausak are presenting a biennial Open House on November 9th to 11th, 2021, in Rollomatic's Mundelein, Illinois, facility.

A look inside the launch of a digital marketing campaign.

Whether dealing with tramp oil in coolant or accumulated oil from parts washing, metalworking operations discover the benefits of efficient, well-designed oil removal solutions.