Product News

Metabo Corp. offers two new powerful, lightweight angle grinders for cutting, grinding and deburring.

For many precision jobs using a face driver, it is critically important to know the exact force applied to the workpiece by the hydraulic tailstock. Riten Industries Inc. offers a tailstock force gauge to allow users to eliminate any guesswork, especially on older machines.

In collaboration with NUM, machine tool rebuilder North East Technologies Inc. has developed a CNC retrofit package that brings the performance of early generation hob sharpening equipment up to modern-day standards.

Machining center utilization improves significantly using the new Kurt PinLock system. It enables machining of multiple parts per load while reducing setup time.

Hexagon Metrology announced Swift-fix, a fixturing and work holding system for the metrology and manufacturing industries, is available in the U.S. market.

CleanVeyor ultrasonic parts washer from Cleaning Technologies Group LLC utilizes a combination of spray, immersion, and ultrasonic cleaning technologies and has proven successful in achieving Six Sigma consistency in a number of applications requiring high production outputs and tight cleanliness levels.

PRAB Inc. has engineered and manufactured chip and fluid filtration systems for over 60 years. Throughout the last decade, as more metal working companies recognize the cost savings and operational advantages in optimizing their scrap metal processing, PRAB has expanded its chip and fluid systems offering to include more modular equipment layout.

Ohio Tool Works (OTW) announced the launch of its newest honing machine: the OTW Twin-Spindle 5000.

Technifor meets the identification and traceability demands of the heavy equipment manufacturer with the powerful XF530 micro-percussion machine.

SGS Tool Co. has added a new series of high-performance 3-flute endmills for difficult-to-machine materials and challenging applications.

A new application in the Edgecam software from Vero USA has been specifically designed for manufacturers to reduce costs, improve quality and hit shorter lead times.

J.W. Winco Inc. announced it offers series GN 6322 Workholding Pins, in metric sizes.

Dura-Mill's new WhisperKut Plus carbide endmills with Dura Shield provide customers with an enhanced version of the company's WhisperKut series endmills.

A new high performance tapping fluid has been announced by its manufacturer, JTM Products Inc.

The adjustable center jaws of DAPRA's new Allmatic CENTRO Gripp Vise allow a workpiece to be held during the complete machining process, from start to finish, with one unit.

Guyson Corp. has introduced a rotary indexing spindle-blast machine that incorporates a robot nozzle manipulator and two auxiliary axes of coordinated robotic motion of its servomotor-driven spindles.

Phoenix Medical Products is a Mountain City, Tenn., contract manufacturer of various devices used in the thoracic, laparoscopic, arthroscopic, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, soft and hard tissue biopsy areas of the medical and research markets. As such, their watchword is precision at every turn.

Brush Research Manufacturing (BRM), makers of the Flex-Hone tool, is showing manufacturers how to automate deburring and surface finishing with professional-grade NamPower abrasive disc brushes in a just-released YouTube video.

Lovejoy Tool offers PCD cutting tools that deliver wear resistance for machining highly abrasive composite materials in ramping, trimming and contouring operations.

Gleason Corp. announced the successful installation of a P 8000/10000 Gear Hobber at Changzhou Tianshan Heavy Industry Machinery Co. Ltd. in Changzhou, China.