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BIG Kaiser Expands Online Presence with Spanish Language Website
This site replicates original content to support North, Central and South American customers with extensive product information, videos, catalogs, cutting-data calculators, drill size conversions, stock and pricing.
Sandvik Coromant Helps Open Vincennes HTEC Teacher Training Center
The day’s events focused on the current shortage of skilled workers and the need to apply innovative solutions to the issue.
MANUFACTURING M&A DEALS INCREASE TO $16 BILLION IN 3Q10
Fueled by an increase of mega-deals but due to increased uncertainty, companies are structuring deals in new ways and handling them differently by avoiding large, staged auctions, except in cases that involve a sizable, high-profile asset.
LIGHT, STURDY CARBON FIBER FRAME FOR BODYSHOP FABRICATION
This carbon fiber NAAMS bodyshop frame from Bilsing Automation is stronger and lighter than standard aluminum tooling used to handle components for fabricating sheet steel bodies-in-white, front-end sheet steel and closures, all without compromising quality or performance.
THROUGH-INSERT COOLANT DELIVERY TAKES CENTER STAGE
Bernard North of Kennametal explains why through-insert coolant delivery is a breakthrough cutting tool development whose benefits include increased performance and beyond.
TOOL ADAPTER REDUCES INVENTORY, CHANGEOVER TIME FOR LATHES MILL/TURNS
The flexible Unitec tool adapter system from Heimatec allows a standard ER output live tool to accept various adapters for different applications, providing operators with a quick changeover of tools on almost any lathe using a single live tool.
POWER CLAMPING SYSTEM FOR FASTER PRESS BRAKE SETUPS, PROPER TOOL SEATING
The Quick Tool Change System for Proform and Maxform press brakes from Cincinnati Incorporated eliiminates bad bends by integrating with the machine hydraulics to automatically self-seat the V-notch tools.
Schunk Becomes Qualified Product Supplier to DMG/Mori Seiki
The Qualified Products Supplier program ensures that all peripheral equipment used on the lathes and machining centers of this machine tool builder fulfill their quality and performance requirements.
3Q10 WORKHOLDING SHIPMENTS UP FROM 2Q10
Overall workholding equipment shipments increased to $58.3 million in the third quarter, a 47 percent increase over the same quarter last year, and employment in this sector was up by almost 5 percent for the same time frame.
WHITNEY TOOL ACQUIRES COGSDILL ENTERPRISES
This acquisition strategically combines two well-respected names in the cutting tool industry. Whitney Tool has now begun to manufacture and sell Burr-Zit brand deburring tools.
CHEVRON-STYLE MILLING CUTTER SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES TITANIUM METAL REMOVAL RATES
Ideal for aerospace part design applications that often call for up to 80 percent metal removal rates, the 5230VS12 long edge cutter from ATI Stellram achieves metal removal rates up to two times greater than comparable cutters on the market.
HIGH-FEED CUTTERS INCREASE METAL REMOVAL RATES UP TO 5 TIMES ON TOUGH MATERIALS
The patented Stellram 7792VXE16 high-feed shell mill cutter from ATI Stellram Metalworking Products yields high levels of material removal rates in titanium, nickel-based alloys, cobalt-based alloys, titanium-based alloys and other difficult-to-machine alloys.