Product News

Comau's newest robot, Racer 999, is a six-axis articulated robot that inherits all the key features of its "older brother" Racer 7-1.4, a product that has had success since it was introduced just a year ago, and adds unique features that complement the Italian company's wide range of products.

eNETDNC announces a new wireless USB DNC unit.

Mahr Federal Inc. has introduced a new high-precision measuring station to measure and evaluate optical components, including freeform, aspheric, and spherical lenses.

Eriez HydroFlow Refractometers are simple yet rugged instruments that give users the ability to quickly determine the concentration of metalworking coolants and cleaners, heat-treating fluids, water-based hydraulic fluids and plating baths.

Doosan's Lynx 220LSY Series is a range of affordable, compact and high-speed Multi-Tasking Turning Centers featuring a Y-axis, an important feature, as milling and drilling capabilities of the Y-axis do away with the need for secondary machining operations that might otherwise be performed on, say, a milling machine.

Okuma's GI-10NII is equipped with extremely rigid, high-speed grinding wheel spindles that produce high-performance production in automated environments.

TESA management recently discontinued production of its Brown & Sharpe Standard bore and snap gages. Mahr Federal bore and snap gages are available to replace these TESA products.

Northfield Precision Instrument Corp. introduces its newest expanding mandrel collet chuck.

The new, affordable AccuteX "Great Economy" (GE) Wire EDMs from Absolute Machine Tools, advertised at $89,000, reportedly combine high cutting speed and accuracy.

Now available in configurations for threading, grooving and chamfering, Carmex says its expanded CMT line of vertical milling inserts delivers longer tool life, higher material removal, excellent surface finish, reduced cycle times, and lower cutting forces in materials up to 62 HRC steel.

Palmgren Steel Products Inc. says its self-centering, low-profile machine vise is ideal to use with drilling and milling machines whenever quick, accurate centering of the workpiece below the spindle is required.

Birchwood Technologies' ION EXCHANGE System purifies rinse water for reuse in metal finishing systems.

The new LaserCam-HR II laser beam diagnostic cameras from Coherent Inc. offer improved performance over the company's original LaserCam-HR.

Achieving the best results in deep-hole drilling calls for capable and reliable tools. To this end, tool manufacturer InovaTools is offering new double-cut deep-hole drills with internal cooling, designed precisely for the particular challenges of this special application in terms of substrate, geometry and chip clearance.

Creform Corp. has developed a new design for mobile tool carts built with the Creform System of pipe and joints making them flexible, easy to customize and optimize.

Kennametal's new asymmetric line-boring solution increases machining robustness, process speeds, and bore quality, and reduces tool maintenance and handling.

In the US, many high volume tubing suppliers have moved production facilities overseas to low cost producers like China or Mexico. Minimum buys are now the rule, leaving many US manufacturers with a quandary – How to get small quantities of a wide variety of tubing needed for research and development or smaller production runs.

Millstar offers its new Aluminum Milling Cutters line.

Walter has extended its range of pilot drills with addition of the X·treme Pilot 180.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers EN 239.6 Technopolymer plastic hinges with integrated safety switch in metric sizes.