Materials & Raw Stock

Products • October 1, 2014

Services Portfolio

An established global leader and an agile expanding start-up. A leading provider of wear-resistant solutions, while concurrently a pioneer in delivering digital data solutions of real value. A manufacturer and at the same time a service provider, all these describe Kennametal, a company continuing to expand and re-conceive its services portfolio in light of its latest products, historical leadership and commitment to "Different Thinking is Better Thinking."

News • July 17, 2014

Deloitte debuts 3D printing online course

Deloitte University Press, New York, has launched what it calls a "massive open online course" (MOOC) on the business implications of additive manufacturing, titled "3D Opportunity: The Course on Additive Manufacturing for Business Leaders," designed to help educate the market on the business drivers of additive manufacturing.

Videos • June 21, 2014

Keiton Engineering introduces prehardened tool steel

Keiton Engineering recently introduced Toolox, a prehardened tool steel that the company reportedly can flame cut.

Articles • June 1, 2014 • Mark Larson

Why Beta Titanium Alloys Pose Challenges for Machining

Mark Larson, a titanium process R&D manager for Makino Inc., answers 10 questions about machining titanium alloys.

News • May 6, 2014

Machine takes a bite out of strapping

Steel strapping is effective for bundling materials, but poses a number of problems for a machine shop. Its sharp edges make it something of a workplace hazard, while its long, ungainly shape makes storage and disposal difficult. It's also made of mid-carbon steel, so even though throwing the strapping in the dumpster is the easiest way to handle it, possible profits from recycling are dumped as well.

Products • May 1, 2014

Accu-Square Tool Steel

Accu-Square, presquared tool steel from Diehl Steel saves tool, die and mold makers time by reducing or eliminating the need for further squaring of the blocks.

News • April 1, 2014

Kyocera consolidates North American operations

Advanced ceramics producer Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp. (KICC), Tokyo, announced the creation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Kyocera Precision Tools Inc., that consolidates its North American cutting tool operations in the indexable, microtool, and printed circuit board (PCB) cutting tool markets.

Products • April 1, 2014

420 Stainless Steel

420 Stainless steel from Diehl Steel is a highly-refined mold quality steel that exhibits excellent polishability, good corrosion resistance and good wear resistance.

News • March 31, 2014

New business unit for Mitsubishi Materials

On April 1, 2014, Fountain Valley, Calif.-based manufacturer Mitsubishi Materials USA will consolidate two business units — Rock Tools and Hard Materials — into a new unit known as Engineered Carbide Products in an effort to improve operational efficiency, according to a letter to stakeholders released by the company.

News • March 17, 2014

Merger creates Sandvik Hyperion

Diamond Innovations merged with Sandvik Hard Materials as of Jan. 1, 2014, to create a new business, Sandvik Hyperion, focused on applied materials. The new company, with U.S. headquarters in Fair Lawn, N.J., has a broader portfolio of materials solutions and increased scale in R&D and application development. Sandvik Hyperion supplies cemented tungsten carbide, tungsten-carbide powders, diamond materials and CBN materials used in material-removal and wear-protection applications.

Products • March 1, 2014

Coolant Filtration System

Demanding grinding applications require a powerful filtration system, that positively supports and affects the production process. The filtration specialist Vomat provides the metalworking industry with individually tailored filtration concepts, as well as custom solutions for special applications. One example is a filtration system, which can handle Carbide and HSS waste running on the same machine, which is distributed in the U.S. by Oelheld U.S. Inc.

Videos • February 22, 2014

Mitsubishi Materials re-engineers carbide head joint connection

iMX series Exchangeable Screw on Head connection features the World's first "Carbide Head"+"Carbide Holder" double face contact connection, according to Mitsubishi Materials' own research on exchangeable head end mills. But the company did not stop there. Careful SWOT analysis of the conventional screw on head products indicated it was PARAMOUNT to re-engineer the carbide head joint connection for the next generation of Exchangeable head products to approach the performance of solid carbide end mills without encountering carbide joint failure due to tensile strength limitations of carbide threads.