Toolholders & Workholding

Platinum Tooling Technologies, Inc., the exclusive importer of Heimatec live tools and angle heads, offers a variety of complementary products designed to enhance the capabilities of Swiss CNC lathes, including popular brands as Citizen, Star and Tsugami.

High-quality toolholders reduce multi-flute endmill problems during aggressive machining strategies.

What about parts or shafts that need to both run true and have multiple features that run true to the others?

5th Axis Inc., a leader in manufacturing, automated production, and machining, announced a new sales representation partnership with High Tech Industrial Representation Inc. High Tech serves manufacturers across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, western Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and the Quad Cities area of Illinois.

Lyndex-Nikken, manufacturer and provider of machine tool accessories and machine tending solutions, has expanded its sales team. The company appointed five seasoned sales professionals: Travis Lucot, who will cover Pennsylvania and New York; Bill Hafley, Indiana; Kip Smith, Southern California; Michael Kucera, Illinois; and Raul Oquendo, Texas and Louisiana.

Dillon Self-centering jaw forming rings, or jaw boring rings, attach to the front of jaws without tools so installation is fast and simple, and set-up times are slashed, the company says. Additionally, they provide a jaw surface true to the machine centerline and increase up-times for running machined parts.

Now in its fourth year, the Big Daishowa Tools for Schools program continues to invest in the next generation of manufacturers. This year, the program awarded tooling certificates totaling $51,000 to technical schools selected by Big Daishowa customers. This brings the program’s cumulative impact to nearly $120,000 in donated tooling certificates.

Lyndex-Nikken, manufacturer and provider of high-performance machine tool accessories and machine tending solutions, announces the launch of its newly redesigned website - designed to help the manufacturing community quickly search, evaluate, and specify machine tool accessories and machine tending solutions that optimize machining performance.

The Royal MTC Multi-Tasking Chuck from Royal Products is designed to handle large-diameter parts, small-diameter parts, and parts suited for I.D. gripping. According to the company, the key to this all-in-one design is the quick-change center hubs – there is no need ever to remove the chuck body from the lathe spindle.

Sumitomo Electric Industries has added shanks for internal coolant supply without a hose and external turning heads for ISO inserts to the Indexable Head Type Quick Change Tool Holder APM series for Small Lathes and Autolathes.