Product News

With rising energy costs, new laws and a new environmental conscience, the topic of energy efficiency of production machinery is increasingly being discussed and influences more and more purchasing decisions. The same holds true for filtration systems designed to clean cooling lubricants in the tool manufacturing process. Distributed by oelheld, the filtration specialist VOMAT prides itself to provide systems that filter in an energy efficient way, saving a lot of operating cost, just as its compact design does, by utilizing less expensive production floor space.

Leine and Linde's XHI 801 and XHI 803 rotary encoders provide position and velocity for the generator rotor.

Coherent Inc. offers a platform reportedly designed to deliver all the benefits of ultrafast laser materials processing at a lower price point than previously available. Specifically, RAPID NX combines the best aspects of Coherent's Talisker and RAPID series lasers, including pulse-on-demand and burst mode operation.

Sandvik Coromant is launching a deep-hole machining concept for the STS system, CoroDrill 808.

Eriez HydroFlow has introduced the Deep Bed Gravity Filter.

Creform Corp. has introduced a narrow picking cart design that is stable yet easily maneuvered for operating and passing in space restrictive aisles.

Third Wave Systems announced its enhanced indexable drilling capability.

After introducing mechanical face drivers to the U.S., LMC Workholding offers patented face drivers and live centers from Tecnologie FRB.

Micro Air HydroMax dust collectors are designed specifically to address the growing problem of dust explosions in manufacturing plants, and related recent OSHA and NFPA regulations.

Hexagon Metrology announced its new line of Brown & Sharpe/TESA wireless inductive probes with technical features that are reportedly unique to the metrology marketplace.

NTK Cutting Tools has released a new proprietary group of advanced composite cutting tool materials called "BIDEMICS."

Late last year, Kennametal finalized its acquisition of the tungsten materials business from Allegheny Technologies Inc., including the full line of Stellram metalworking tools.

Flow International Corp. announced an upgrade to the FlowXpert Software Suite, FlowXpert 2015.

ABB Robotics has introduced the IRB 1200, a new family of small robots that features a compact footprint and a large work envelope, providing flexibility, ease of use and short cycle times to a wide range of material handling, machine tending and small parts assembly applications.

Hexagon Metrology released the ROMER Absolute Arm 1.2m portable coordinate measuring machine.

Lach Diamond offers the >>Cool Injection-Plus<< PCD cutter developed in cooperation with the AUDI AG.

Accudyne Corp.'s latest bar puller, called the BIG- EZ, has a range of 1.625" to 3.00".

New measurement ranges have been added to Lion Precision's CPL490 Capacitive Displacement Sensor.

Preco Inc. introduces high-speed, discrete-part, laser-processing system for "tool free" processing of coil-fed metallic materials.

As a leading manufacturer in the markings and traceability sector, SIC Marking has developed a new portable marking system, the e1-p63c.