Product News

Hardinge provides gripping solutions for machining small-diameter parts for medical component manufacturing. One category of products includes Swiss-type headstock collets, pickoff collets, carbide guide bushings, bar loader collets and custom manufactured solutions for Swiss turning.

The CoroMill 316 exchangeable-head milling system from Sandvik Coromant is suitable for high-feed facemilling, slot milling, helical interpolation, shoulder milling, profile milling and chamfer milling of components in material groups from ISO P to ISO S.

ESAB Cutting Systems introduces the Hydrocut LX Waterjet Shape Cutting Machine — the latest version of ESAB's popular Low-Rail Hydrocut machine.

SICK has launched the AFS60 and AFM60 absolute encoders with Industrial Ethernet.

J.W. Winco's RoHS-compliant shoulder screws are cost-saving construction components for a wide variety of different uses.

In many industrial cleaning applications the use of solvents yields valuable process advantages. Committed to making optimum use of these benefits, Durr Ecoclean keeps refining and improving its equipment portfolio continually.

Techno Inc. has announced its newest CNC Plasma Accessory: the TechProbe Digitizer.

Medical part manufacturing continues to be a rapidly growing market due to the large population of aging baby boomers who are looking for "improved quality of life." Demand is high for high-precision components for neurological, orthopeadic, spinal/bone fixation, dental implants, drug infusion, catheter connectors, optical, maxillofacial, micro/minimally invasive, surgical instruments and other medical devices, most of which can be manufactured on the Hardinge QUEST SUPER-PRECISION GT27 gang-tool turning center.

Dapra Corp. has introduced 12mm Cutter Bodies and Inserts to its line of 90 Square Shoulder precision mills.

The Hi-TECH 450 horizontal turning center from Hwacheon Machinery America has a 500mm turning diameter and 1,350mm turning length.

IBAG North America announces the new, High Torque Back Working Spindles in 20mm, 22mm and 25mm sizes offering 234 watts peak power with spindle speeds to 60,000 rpm.

Heidenhain offers a new magnetic ring encoder strategically segmented to simply fit around large shafts is now available from Leine & Linde.

SPRING Technologies, a vendor of solutions that optimize the use of complex NC machines, recently launched a new version of NCSIMUL Machine 9, its flagship software for machine simulation.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has announced they have introduced the new FANUC RoboCut. C400iA and C600iA wire EDMs.

Tapeswitch Corp. released the PCU programmable safety controller that further extends robust safety product system capabilities to include systems integration, programmable logic control functions and management software (included).

The KONTEC KSX NC vise from SCHUNK is a powerful clamping system for simultaneous 5-axis machining.

Hypertherm announced the launch of the EDGE Pro Ti, a new CNC designed with integrated drives, motors and multiple torch height control interface options.

CoroMill 419 from Sandvik Coromant Co. is a new five-edge high-feed milling concept for roughing to semi-finishing, offering excellent performance in all material groups and with great possibilities for optimization.

Ganro Industrial Corp. has made significant specification improvements to its horizontal rotary table series including the new HR-3030, which offers a new larger size table top and is available from CNC Indexing & Feeding Technologies.

Mitutoyo America Corp. announces a sales program based on "packaging" select Coordinate Measuring Machines and Vision Systems with related equipment and service packages at no extra cost over the price of the base machine.