Products

Hypertherm announced a new Centricut brand quick change torch for use with ESAB plasma cutting systems.

Hypertherm is expanding availability of its HyAccess extended consumables to the Powermax65, Powermax85, and Powermax105, in addition to legacy Powermax and MAX systems with Duramax retrofit torches.

Abtex Corp. announced a new machine for deburring powdered-metal parts when they're still in the "green" state, prior to sintering.

The new CBN600 universal PCBN insert grade from Seco Tools LLC brings cost-effective performance to high-volume rough turning operations that involve gray cast iron, high chrome iron and high manganese steel workpiece materials.

Seco Tools LLC recently expanded its Highfeed series of indexable-insert milling cutters to include the Highfeed 2 and 4.

Dillon aluminum full grip jaws, available from 5 to 24 inches in diameter, are ideal for machining of thin walled parts.

Gear cutting requirements, for example in the manufacture of powertrain components, continue the trend of becoming increasingly stringent. Complex gearbox configurations pose enormous component quality challenges, especially when produced in ever larger quantities. With the new VLC series of modular machines, including the VLC 200 H vertical gear hobbing machine and the VLC 100 C vertical chamfering machine, EMAG offers a solution to meet these production challenges.

The Eriez HandyTec Model HH-10 hand-held metal detector has the ability to pinpoint small pieces of ferrous contamination in shallow layers of nonferrous product.

EXSYS Tool Inc. has long supplied the North American market with high-precision, German-made EPPINGER live and fixed toolholders for CNC turning centers and modular adapter systems for quick lathe tooling changeovers. Today, EXSYS has expanded its offerings to include a new line of high-quality EPPINGER gearboxes and custom gear-making services for a wide variety of industries.

Designed for single-spindle Swiss screw machines, the latest thread whirling toolholder from EXSYS Tool Inc. productively machines high-precision OD threads in challenging materials.

The Fowler Xtra-Value II Electronic Micrometer from Paul N. Gardner Co. has a choice of measuring range, an LCD with an inch/metric switchable resolution, and is designed for general purpose measuring.

Gleason Corp. announcesSmartLAP, a technology for lapping bevel gear sets, reportedly with unprecedented productivity, control and data collection.