Product News

Corrosion may not be the first word that comes to mind when thinking of preventative maintenance. Yet, it can be a critical part of keeping vital “nerve centers” going at any facility — making sure the lights stay on; the electricity continues working; and servers, phone systems, fire alarms and other electrical controls keep functioning. Electrical or electronic failures mean interrupted operations, downtime, repairs and extra costs. Fortunately, Cortec VpCI solutions require minimal effort with big returns on corrosion protection.

A fully integrated on-board cutter resharpening unit is now available for Gleason vertical Power Skiving machines, allowing for the completely automated resharpening of cutters used in the production of both soft and hardened gears up to 600 mm in workpiece diameter.

When grinding carbide and HSS tools in large industrial volumes, large filter and central systems for cleaning contaminated grinding oils are worthwhile in several ways, like the filtration systems from filter specialist VOMAT in Treuen, Germany. They offer ultrafine filtration systems that can be individually customized to customer-specific production conditions.

Robotiq announced new functionalities for its Finishing Copilot software. Designed for manufacturers with polishing or sanding processes, the software’s new weaving motion and variable trajectory planning enables a cobot to adjust its own path. This means cobots can finish a family of parts without the operator having to adapt the program.

Walter has introduced the MU5 double-sided indexable insert for turning operations. The insert can be used universally both for steel forged parts and also for stainless materials.

Hard Jaws from Dillon Manufacturing Inc. feature diamond-shaped serrations for increased pull down effect, which reduces part slippage and push back from using a bar feeder. The aggressive serrations on the gripping surfaces are also ideal for cast parts, scaly parts or parts with imperfections.

Solar Manufacturing shipped a Mentor vacuum furnace to Virginia, for a customer servicing the tool and die industry. The Model HFL-2018-2IQ features a graphite-insulated hot zone, a load weight capacity up to 250 lbs. and a maximum operating temperature of 2400° F.

Tungaloy is expanding its DeepTri-Drill line of indexable gundrills to cover diameters ranging from 37.0 mm to 40.0 mm.

Electrochemical grinding (ECG) solution provider Tridex Technology, a Glebar Company, provides a burr-free cutoff solution for stainless steel tubes with the CS1-E burr-free electrochemical cutoff machine.

Saint-Gobain Abrasives announced the introduction of its new Norton Stellar inserted-nut grinding wheels for double- and single-disc grinding that offer improved wheel life, increased parts per wheel and lower cost per part. The new grinding wheels are suitable for a wide range of industries including automotive, bearing, tool manufacturing, compressors, knife blades and job shop and general machining.

EcoShield VpCI-144 is one of the latest additions to Cortec’s growing portfolio of over 30 USDA-certified biobased products. EcoShield VpCI-144 can now display a unique USDA label showing it contains 69% USDA-certified biobased content. This is the portion of the product that comes from a renewable source, such as plant, animal, marine or forestry feedstocks.

Lach Diamond offers many ways to use diamonds as wear protection and to profit from its superior hardness.

SMW Autoblok introduces the versatile four-in-one Centco4 2+2 self-centering and compensating chuck. The Centco4’s engineering and flexibility enables it to securely and efficiently clamp virtually any type or shape of geometric part including round, cubic, angular and irregular.

A software update is available for the »Dia-2200-mini« product line of Lach Diamond EDG (Electrical Discharge Grinding) eroding machines – sharpening machines; it allows for a transition to extreme axis angles up to 80°.

The REV motorized slotter is designed to solve, in the most efficient way, the problem of having to perform certain processing operations on a CNC lathe, from a simple keyway to internal or external toothed profiles.

Following its tradition still today, Lach Diamond Inc. offers service for setting single-point dressing diamonds and regrinding of profile diamonds. “We owe this to our customers,” emphasize the managing directors who are looking back to an almost 100-year anniversary; while they also reaffirm that “purchasing diamonds is a matter of trust.”

With rapid traverse speeds up to 2,362 ipm (60 m/min.) in all axes and acceleration of 1.2 g, the Tongtai VTX series of drilling and tapping centers are fast, affordable machines for high-precision, high-volume applications. The machines’ compact 87" x 63" (2,210 mm x 1,600 mm) footprint conserves shop floor space, and a fixed column/moving table type design with Meehanite cast-iron frames and roller-type linear slideways provides rigidity and fast, precise movement.

Lach Diamond Inc. offers a grinding wheel with a metal bond for deep grinding – hitherto almost unthinkable. For the first time, newly developed bond variations are available for profiling during the deep grinding of carbide, high-alloyed steel, ceramics and, in a special specification, even unhardened steel.

Dorner Europe is expanding its presence throughout the region by adding the 2200 Series LPZ (Low Profile Z-Frame) conveyor to its lineup of conveyor platforms being manufactured from its Jülich, Germany, location.

Last year the Hoffmann Group presented the Garant Xtric centering vice with clamping jaw quick-change system in line with the “Click&Clamp” principle. From April 2020, the small powerhouse, which acts directly on the component with up to 25 kN clamping force and hardly creates any jaw and component lift-off, will also be available with a center jaw.