Cutting Tools

Milling Tools

Tangential Milling Cutter Enables Increased Depths of Cut

Sumitomo Electric Carbide’s TSX-series tangential milling cutter is designed for stable, efficient shoulder milling at high feed rates.

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Cutting Tools

Seco Tools Launches New Global Website

A key feature is the Suggest tool, which is said to quickly provide users with a complete tooling recommendation based on user input.

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New Turning Process Can Drastically Cut Cycle Times

Sandvik Coromant’s PrimeTurning process allows turning and facing in all directions, delivering dramatic increases in high-volume production. Cycle time reductions of 50 percent or more can be achieved.

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Milling Tools

End Mills Cut and Polish 2D Contours Simultaneously

Emuge has introduced its Cut & Form solid carbide finishing end mills, designed to perform both cutting and polishing in one operation.

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Milling Tools

Making Mountains out of Mold Steel—Literally

When graphite molds wouldn’t cut it for a manufacturer of hand-blown drinking glasses, this shop machined more durable stainless steel molds to create the famous mountainous shapes that emerge from the bottom of its customer’s nifty drinkware.

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Turning Tools

A New Turning Process Enables Cutting “In Reverse”

A methodology for cutting in both directions on a CNC lathe promises to make turning a much more productive operation in certain applications. New types of inserts driven by new CAM tool paths are key enablers of this development, but implementing the whole multifaceted system as a system is essential.

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Holemaking

Modular Connection System for Drilling, Boring, Tapping

Allied Machine & Engineering offers Wohlhaupter’s MVS modular connection system.

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Hot Temperatures (and Technologies) at Eastec 2017

Eastec’s peculiar Massachusetts venue offered the chance to sample a broad variety of advanced manufacturing technologies. Here is a slideshow and some impressions from the trade show.

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Deburring

Cutting Edge Control Speeds Cross-Hole Deburring

As opposed to springs or other mechanical means of driving tool inserts into hole intersections, leveraging pneumatic or hydraulic pressure provides a means of process control beyond feed and speed adjustments.

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Micromachining

Horn Continues Growth Path

The company highlighted its facility expansions and new cutting tool technologies during a recent open house at its global headquarters in Tübingen, Germany.

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