Product News

Royal Machine & Tool Corp. has developed a series of "C" frame fixtures ranging from a 400MM to 800MM table capacity specially designed by Royal Machine to grip and locate high alloy valve body forgings used in the oil and steam industries.

Gone are the days with one eight hour manufacturing shift, many automated facilities today run production machines through the night with very few machine operators, making machine maintenance and repair a valuable operation. Kardex Remstar automated storage and retrieval systems increase production machine uptime by improving technician efficiency, increasing accountability and eliminating part shortages in metalworking maintenance operations.

SICK announced it has launched the Inspector P30 Positioning Sensor. The Inspector P series offers a flexible method for part location and provides a precise positioning point of a known target.

A new high-feed milling cutter extends the benefits of ISCAR's HELITANG UPFEED tangential milling cutters to ramping work as well.

CGW-Camel Grinding Wheels has introduced a metal surface drum sander and flap wheel drum line for large scale metal finishing.

A below-the-hook, pneumatic vacuum lifter that picks up pipe, rod, and other cylindrical loads from the top surface and eliminates blocking, bending, and sagging has been introduced by Anver Corp.

Shop supervisors around the world turn to Cimcool Fluid Technology for effective and affordable cleaning products designed to keep metalworking operations at peak performance.

ISCAR has expanded its popular line of HELIDO ROUND H400 fine-pitch mills to improve profile machining and ramping over a wider range of applications.

Rockford Systems Inc. has introduced a new line of electrically interlocked heavy-duty drill shields.

Clamping force blocks are a classic among stationary clamping systems. SCHUNK presents a major development in miniature self centering clamping technology.

Northfield Precision Instrument Corp., a leader in the design and manufacture of precision workholding chucks, introduces their Automobile Rubber Grip chuck.

Birchwood Casey's LUMICLAD electroless black oxide process for aluminum is now available in a new Zero-Discharge configuration that eliminates the need for a drain connection.

Seco Tools has announced additions to its line of Feedmax solid-carbide drills that avoid delamination upon entry or exit when drilling in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials.

The L.S. Starrett Co. announced its portable SR100 Surface Roughness Tester.

Mahr Federal Inc. has introduced the next generation of its well-established μMaxμm line of digital indicators.

Dassault Systèmes has announced the availability of a beta release of DraftSight for Linux.

The C151 z-a series from SIC Marking USA is remarkable for its repeatability and precision: this is due to its micropercussion technology, its "AERO" type stylus, and its precise mechanism (movement resolution is just 0.05, compared with the 0.1 generally seen on the market).

The VLC 250 P vertical turning machine from EMAG L.L.C., Farmington Hills, Mich., is said to reduce workpiece changeover time by 83 percent with the application of its pendulum technique.

A new mobile lubrication system from the fluid storage and handling specialists, The IFH Group, provides storage and dispensing of lubricants, cutting oils, bearing oils, hydraulic fluids, transmission fluids and engine oils for plants requiring lubrication maintenance at multiple locations over a large area.

MSC Filtration Technologies now offers a standard line of Tramp Oil Separators (TOS) providing extended coolant sump life by removing liquid and solid contaminants that cause coolants to lose their effectiveness.