Tungsten Carbide Blanks
Star SU offers a wide variety of tungsten carbide blanks and preforms from H.B. Carbide.
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Industrial Applications Group appointed as an Eriez manufacturers’ rep
Eriez Director of Heavy Industry Darrell Milton announces that Goodyear, Arizona-based Industrial Applications Group has been appointed as a new Eriez manufacturers' representative for the metalworking market. The Industrial Applications Group sales team will exclusively market Eriez metalworking equipment and cover the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.n
Composite material cutters offer a growing opportunity for toolmakers
The aerospace and defence, wind energy, automotive, civil construction and sporting goods industries have all come to adopt composites for high-performance applications – and the demand continues to grow. A report by Credence Research in 2019 estimated a CAGR of 9.3% for carbon fiber-reinforced plastics during the period 2017-2025. Duncan Thompson, product manager at ANCA, notes the increased sales inquiries in this area, reflecting a growing demand by tool manufacturers to produce cutting tools to service this specialist market.
Brass helps shop achieve impressive results with high-speed machining
When SPR Machine wanted to optimize the production of a part recently converted from 12L14 steel to brass, the Copper Development Association had the opportunity to help this Hamilton, Ohio-based shop get even more value out of the process. The experience reaffirmed yet again how productive and competitive shops can be when they leverage the high-speed machining capabilities of brass.
Additive approach to machining Ti6Al4V
Tool blanks are printed to make cutters to machine titanium.
Report details precision stainless steel market
In terms of market value, the global precision stainless steel market is projected to expand at a CAGR of over 4% during the forecast period, owing to various factors, regarding which, study offers thorough insights and forecasts in this report. The global precision stainless steel market has been segmented on the basis of thickness and end-use industry. The global precision stainless steel market is expected to expand 1.5x in terms of market volume by the end of 2029.
Machine Tool Payback Calculator
Copper Development Association Inc. (CDA) has launched its Machine Tool Payback Calculator, a tool designed to help manufacturers realize the greater profitability and throughput they can achieve with brass on modern machine tools. The calculator enables shops to input their individual production, material and equipment data to assess the impact of new technology on their bottom lines.
Efficiently remove material
Dynamic Motion application provides constant chip load machining with efficient cutting conditions.
NanoRanch A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) Sorter
The new Eriez NanoRanch A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) Sorter uses vision to identify and sort a vast and customizable range of nonferrous materials, providing greater than 95 percent accuracy when the machine is trained with samples.n
Poly – Poly – or what? Part 7: Stumbling blocks on the way into the automotive world …
When you read this, 40 years will have already passed since the discovery of spark erosion for machining polycrystalline cutting materials. Lach Diamant named this process "spark grinding," which accompanied the development of proprietary machines. Polycrystalline diamond tools conquered a multiple-application market traditionally reserved for carbides. Diamonds, baked under pressure and heat during synthesis, made this possible.
Sandvik creates smash-proof, 3D-printed guitar
Rock stars have been smashing guitars for decades, few with more enthusiasm than Swedish-born guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen. Global engineering company Sandvik decided to test its cutting-edge techniques by building the world's first all-metal, unbreakable guitar and letting Malmsteen unleash his smashing skills.
Poly – Poly – or what? Part 6: Quo vadis – Where are you going …?
The fact that polycrystalline diamonds (PCD) could "show profile" in October 1978 could be attributed to random chance, but could it have something to do with "luck"? But how did golf professional Tiger Woods answer when a journalist pointed out that he often had a lot of luck during his games? "The more I train, the more luck I have."