Product News

Tungaloy Corp. is expanding its DoTriple-Mill series to include pressed-to-size inserts in Class M dimensional tolerance, to further strengthen its position in the facemilling market. DoTriple-Mill is Tungaloy’s latest facemill series, in which any set of square, octagonal or round inserts can be fit on a single cutter body.

Controx presents the Panel Cut line of tools, which reportedly allow feed rates up to 400 ipm for maximum productivity and a clean surface finish. Designed specifically for machining lightweight composite sandwich panels, these shank tools employ sophisticated tool geometry to drill through sandwich panels with no delamination on the glass or carbon fiber skins or flagging of the honeycomb in between.

Hoffmann Group knows that with the growing complexity of production and the increased diversity of components, new challenges in the production process arise for customers. Available from Hoffmann Group USA is the GARANT ZeroClamp system, a highly accurate clamping system for the metalworking industry.

Emuge Corp. has announced the expansion of its MultiTAP line, high-performance taps designed to cut a range of materials, including carbon steel, steel alloys, stainless steel, aluminum, cast iron, copper, brass and bronze. With 87 new SKUs, the Emuge MultiTAP line comprises an expansive offering of both regular and extended-length spiral-point and spiral-flute taps, as well as roll form taps.

The latest release of Alphacam, from Vero Software, continues to intuitively automate key CAD/CAM operations, improving manufacturing productivity and efficiency. The Automation Manager includes enhancements to simplify workflow, including Multi-drill control, new Styles functionality, and further support for additional CAD file formats.

Heimatec Inc. now offers products from Tecnicrafts Industries, a manufacturer of collets and guide bushings for Swiss-type CNC Lathes. Tecnicrafts is an ISO 9001:2015-certified company, with its manufacturing plant in South India with state-of-the-art machine tools and 115 technicians.

LACH DIAMOND says its newly developed PCD twist drill type PS saves up to 75 percent of time by reducing three previously necessary steps to one process. The new PCD twist drill completes piloting, drilling and reaming all in one “shot.”

Aerotech’s QFOCUS QF-50 piezo nanopositioning stage is designed for high-performance microscope objective and optics positioning. It offers 400 μm closed loop and 450 μm open loop travel, high speed, 0.01% linearity, sub-nanometer resolution, and 4 nm bidirectional repeatability.

Servo-Robot has launched the Jupiter-S robot-vision system specially designed for real-time edge and feature detection and tracking in very harsh environments, such as oxy-gas, plasma and high-power laser metal cutting. In this patented laser triangulation technology, a scanning laser beam provides a high-resolution programmable measurement scan of the object highly immune to process noise and flying molten metal.

Tool manufacturer Pokolm Frästechnik describes the latest addition to its milling cutter portfolio as the high-performance milling system for roughing and prefinishing applications in the field of high-feed machining. With FOURWORX, milling specialist POKOLM claims a multitude of interesting properties that will enable users to advance into previously unattainable realms of performance.

FUJITSU GLOVIA Inc. says its hybrid ERP strategy enables manufacturers to more quickly, easily and inexpensively make production line changes, expand manufacturing capabilities, add new facilities or implement lean manufacturing while continuing to benefit from the operational strengths of their SAP ERP systems. GLOVIA G2 manufacturing ERP software has been designed to be fully SAP-compatible, providing manufacturers the opportunity to incorporate a system with enhanced manufacturing ERP capabilities without disrupting corporate use of SAP for financial and human resource functions.

HEMCO clean rooms are built to your exact size and design requirements. From ISO 6 to ISO 8, clean rooms can feature a single pass or recirculating airflow system.

Quicktech i-42 ROBO and i-60 ROBO 4-axis mill/turn centers feature integrated 6-axis Mitsubishi robots for fast, automated loading and unloading of medium-diameter (i42: 42mm/1.68", i60: 60mm/2.36") bar stock. In addition to carrying out highly productive turning, the machines can perform complex milling with standard live tools, according to the company.

DEWALT announces updates to Tool Connect , a system originally launched in 2015 that used Bluetooth technology to manage batteries on the jobsite. Now, Tool Connect features a three-part inventory management solution that encompasses the Tool Connect Inventory Manager web portal, the updated Tool Connect mobile app and connected products.

Mahr Federal expands its line of wireless gaging products to include a range of depth gaging products. Digital depth gage MarCal 30 EWR, MarCal specialty caliper 16 EWR and universal caliper 16 EWR all provide wireless data transmission of depth probe measurements.

Ingersoll Cutting Tools offers dovetail with a positive-rake-angular advantage and 6-flute productivity performance.

Building on its PS-Series product line, Makino announced the next-generation PS65 and PS105 vertical machining centers. Both models feature enhanced design characteristics and next-generation technologies that expand upon the capabilities of their predecessors.

The two-speed combination belt and disc finishing machines from Palmgren can handle nearly every finishing operation. Equipped with value-added features, these machines reportedly deliver superior performance with serious results.

To match the varied needs of machine tool manufacturers, Ruland Manufacturing Co. Inc. offers more than 2,500 standard shaft collars. Machine tool manufacturers require round bore, threaded and bearing locknut-type shaft collars to meet the diverse needs of mills, lathes, bar feeders, coilers and other CNC equipment.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 784 metric size, aluminum mounting clamps with swivel ball joint. The GN 784 aluminum mounting clamps, which are RoHS compliant, allow precise and variable adjustment of the ball pivot within the rotation range.