Product News

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.

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.

HEIDENHAIN announces the addition of its new slim-design ECI 1118 rotary encoder to its expansive product line.

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.

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.

Mahr Federal has introduced an updated version of its Pocket Surf portable surface finish gage.

DE-STA-CO has upgraded its innovative 9500 series pneumatic swing clamp to make it more versatile and easier to install.

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

A variety of modular units from Carr Lane Roemheld can be combined in numerous ways for safe and efficient handling and movement of heavy loads in assembly operations.

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.

Drake Manufacturing Services Co. LLC delivered a so-called "Drum" or "Crown" grinder to an Asian manufacturer of tapered roller bearings.

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

J.W. Winco Inc. announced it offers GN 21 stainless steel leveling feet with a turned base, without lag bolt holes, in metric sizes.

The newest StingRay structured light generating laser from Coherent Inc. offers up to 50 mW of output in the blue (450 nm), making it especially advantageous for machine vision applications based on 3D triangulation that involve darker materials.

REGO-FIX has expanded its powRgrip product line with the introduction of PG-S short shank and PG-L long shank powRgrip collets.

Somma Tool Co., a manufacturer of rotary broaching tools and holders, announces a new line of broaches called Forte.

Walter has introduced the Walter Prototyp Supreme TC610 and TC611 solid-carbide thread mills, high performance tools that deliver significant increases in thread quality, milling productivity and process reliability while boosting tool life.

With hyperCAD-S, Open Mind Technologies AG says it has created a CAD solution that is optimally matched to the tasks of an NC programmer.

Fives brings the combination live spindle and integrated contouring head (ICH) to its Cincinnati MEGA and Giddings & Lewis HMC Series horizontal machining centers, for expanded processing flexibility and dramatically reduced workpiece transfers and setups, with improved accuracy, according to the company.