Product News

A new line of flexible, cotton fiber abrasive wheels for deburing, blending, and finishing a wide variety of machined, cast, and stamped metal parts is being introduced by Rex-Cut Products Inc.

DMG/Mori Seiki USA's X-Class machine has a thick, high-rigidity bed with X- and Z-axis linear guides in a high position, and a spindle with large-diameter bearing.

SICK Inc. announced the launch of its W9-3 photoelectric sensor, a high-performance sensor in an extremely tough plastic housing.

As the demand for solar energy and electronics increases worldwide, innovative equipment and processes are key to increase productivity at lower costs. Leading manufacturers of silicon wafers, the principal raw material used to produce solar panels and computer chips look to custom-manufacturers like DoALL Sawing Products to enhance the process.

Rustlick is excited to announce the release of ULTRACUT Aero, a new premium water-soluble oil optimized for high-tech ferrous and nonferrous metals, including titanium, aluminum, Inconel and stainless steel, which are widely used in aerospace, medical and the electronics industries.

J.W. Winco Inc., a leading supplier of standard industrial machine components, announced it now offers series GN 298 Housings for Angular or T-Gears, as part of its new complete line of tube connection and conveyor components.

The FC-250EX and FC-700EX Automatic Diamond and CBN Wheel Truing and Dressing Machines from Rush Machinery, Rushville, N.Y., are designed for truing and dressing of flats, angles and radii on diamond and CBN single wheels and multiple wheel packs, according to a Rush news release.

Hangsterfer's Laboratories offers Boeing BAC-5008-approved coolants. S-500CF is a water-soluble oil concentrate with antiweld and antiwear compounds for machining ferrous and nonferrous metals, particularly aluminum alloys.

Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing a new data interface accessory called "Capture" for the popular Laser Microgage industrial measuring and alignment system.

BIG Kaiser has introduced the new, large diameter Kaiser 318 Series, a tooling system supporting a variety of aluminum and steel components optimized for twin cutter rough boring, precision finish boring and precision OD turning operations.

Doosan Infracore's new VC430 vertical machining center features a 25 Hp motor that generates up to 12,000 rpm at the spindle and 123.6 ft-lbs of torque.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has introduced the new FANUC RoboCut iE Wire EDM Series, featuring a new power supply for highly accurate and efficient cutting performance in challenging materials.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has developed a universal gear grinding machine, the ZE40A, which is capable of high-precision machining of various sizes of gears up to 600mm in diameter.

You've probably heard the term "vulcanized collet" and may have wondered what it means exactly. Vulcanization was named after the Roman God of Fire, Vulcan, and, yes, the injection molding process at Hardinge does involve heat.

HEIDENHAIN Corp. has released a new absolute, inductive rotary encoder.

Emuge Corp. has introduced a new line of High Performance JIS Taps for tapping applications at companies manufacturing products with Japanese-specified standards.

Mastercut Tool Corp. manufactures burs with various shapes, cuts and coatings. The tools are made from tungsten carbide on CNC machines.

Mikron Corp. Monroe offers the CrazyDrill drill with cutting depths of 15, 20 and 30 diameters starting from a 1mm diameter and 40 diameters starting from a 2mm diameter.

A line of cotton fiber mounted points that are ideally suited for use on stainless steel sinks, tables, countertops, and related fabrications are available from Rex-Cut Products Inc.

With the FEEDERplus6, STROTHMANN has proved that a transfer system which unloads, orients, and feeds parts into presses all by itself can work more efficiently than double feeders or articulated arm robots, especially in small press gaps.