Tooling

Milling Tools

Heule Tool Relocates to Larger Facility

The new facility doubles the company’s space.

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Cutting Tools

Tool Magazine Stores 206 Large-Diameter Tools

Mazak’s compact Tooltech tool magazine is designed to store big, heavy and large-diameter tools in a small space on the shop floor.

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Milling Tools

Tungaloy’s Product Seminar Focuses on Reducing Real Costs of Production

More than 1,050 products are included in the latest TungForce line, leveraging coatings and geometries to hit machining costs where it counts: speed.

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Cutting Tools

Expanded Dovetail Grooving Insert Line

The Thinbit line of Groove ‘N Turn dovetail grooving inserts, by Kaiser Tool Co. has been expanded to offer more sizes.

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Toolholders

Exchangeable Spindle Increases Machine Speed

NT Tool’s Hyper Spindle use a 1-to-5-ratio internal gear system to multiply existing machine spindle rpm by as much as five times at the cutting edge, with a maximum of 30,000 rpm.

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Scannable Code Promotes Sharing of Cutting Tool Info in a Data-Driven Mfg. Environment

Learn how a dot matrix code on the body of a toolholder enables critical information about the cutting tool to be captured, moved about the factory safely and updated promptly on a central database.

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Workholding

Collet Chuck Balances Drive Shafts

Northfield Precision Instrument offers a special internal-grip collet chuck for balancing drive shafts.

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Milling Tools

Three-Flute Drill Extends Tool Life at Higher Feed Rates

Mapal’s three-flute Tritan-Drill is said to achieve more bores, a longer tool life and lower machining costs compared with two-flute drills.

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Turn/Mill

Multitasking Gantry Center Performs Five-Sided Milling, Turning, Laser Hardening

Fermat introduces a five-axis, multitasking gantry center with a fixed table and a movable column combining drilling, milling, turning, grinding and laser hardening operations.

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Milling Tools

End Mill Series Extends Lengths of Cut, Corner Radius Options

M.A. Ford has expanded its TuffCut XT Series 278 range of end mills with more than 400 new product variants.

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