Turning Tool News

• Vollmer exhibits machinery for tool production
  At Mach 2010, Vollmer will be showing new and established grinding and eroding machinery for tool production and maintenance.
• Drills enable hole making in aerospace sector
  To meet demand from the aerospace sector for reliable and efficient hole-making technology in composite materials, Sandvik Coromant is launching its Corodrill 854 and Corodrill 856.
• M1200 face-mill inserts enable aluminium milling
  Widia Victory M1200 face-mill inserts are designed to provide high-quality results in aluminum when performing common milling operations such as roughing, semi-finishing and finishing.
• Drills produce deep holes in non-ferrous alloys
  ITC's 1052 Cyber solid-carbide drills have a 5XD effective drill length for producing deep holes in non-ferrous alloys, nickel-based materials, titanium, cast iron, steels and stainless steel.
• cDD tools dress vitrified bonded grinding wheels
  Meister's cDD rotary-dressing tools are suited for dressing vitrified bonded grinding wheels, including aluminum-oxide, silicone-carbide, ceramic and CBN.
• Hainbuch presents Quadrok clamping unit at Mach
  Hainbuch has announced that it will be exhibiting the double-concentric Quadrok clamping unit for five-axis machining on booth number 4311, in hall 4, at Mach 2010.
• Clamp enables large ring-type workpiece machining
  The Inozet clamping system developed by HWR Spanntechnik has been designed primarily for vertical turning lathes and is particularly relevant to the machining of large ring-type workpieces.
• Carbide drills target large batches of steel parts
  WNT's new solid-carbide drills are said to provide reductions in cost/hole over existing drilling technology due to a combination of new carbide substrate, coating expertise and drill-point geometry.
• LMT's threading solution improves tool life
  LMT's Fette division has increased by 350 per cent the tool life of forged-steel crankshafts on a vehicle manufacturer's Makino A61 machining centre.
• QS unit speeds tool changes on sliding-head lathes
  Sandvik Coromant's QS holding system is now suitable for Tornos, Tsugami and Nexturn sliding-head lathes.