Sandvik Coromant, a global leading supplier of cutting tools, tooling solutions and know-how to the metalworking industry, presents the innovative CoroMill® 5B90, a high-performance tool for finishing aluminium components. The state-of-the-art tool with an innovative cutting edge arrangement delivers excellent surface quality, without burr formation and reduces cost-per-part by up to 30 per cent. CoroMill 5B90 is ideally suited for typical automotive industry applications such as machining (…)

Subcontratación, the International Fair of Manufacturing Processes & Equipment, is to place more emphasis on B2B meetings at its 2015 edition, increasing investment and efforts in a campaign to invite hosted buyers to take part in its programme of pre-arranged meetings. The possibility of taking part in the European Industrial Subcontracting Meetings is one of the major attractions of the event, which is to be the biggest pre-arranged B2B meeting event held in Spain to date. The types (…)

The next in-house exhibition, the Chiron Open House, will take place from Wednesday, March 18 to Friday, March 20, 2015 in Tuttlingen, Germany. Under the motto "Ahead through variety", this machine builder will show how machining centers can be flexibly adapted to customized requirements and order-specific tasks using its modular system. Many practical examples will show how customers are achieving maximum productivity, top machining quality and short throughput times. As a highlight, for (…)

Witte has developed a completely new type of vacuum chuck which operates without any kind of extra vacuum supply unit. The vacuum chuck consists of a patented vacuum supply unit with battery and an automatic control system. Safety equipment and signal lights that show clamping and battery loading condition are also integrated and ensure process safety Great versatility Depending on ambient conditions and type of part capacity is sufficient for several hours or shifts. The clamping (…)

Delcam has released PartMaker 2015, the latest version of its PartMaker CAM software for programming CNC mills, lathes, wire EDM equipment, turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes. Major highlights of PartMaker 2015 include improved support for today’s latest breed of multi-tasking machine tools, such as vertical mill-turns, more powerful milling and turning functionality, and a unique approach to post processing for multi-axis turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes, among other (…)

Schunk, the competence leader for clamping technology and gripping systems extends its modular system for efficient workpiece clamping with a particularly smart collet chuck module for parts with cylindrical shanks. Lengths of pipes, shafts, and other small parts can be precisely clamped with the Schunk Vero-S SEZ within a very short time, and can be machined from five sides with an optimal accessibility. The same applies for unstable workpieces with a short shank. Since the system can be (…)

Another year full of interesting discoveries is about to come to its end and we would like to thank all the companies and people we’re working with for their confidence and support. Also thank you to the more and more numerous readers of our online source of information. Merry Christmas and happy New Year The online daily news will be stopped for a few days and will be back on January 5 with industry and microtechnology news. We are eager to carry on bringing you valuable info through both (…)

Renishaw is pleased to unveil the machine that it is developing specifically for production manufacturing. Provisionally named EVO Project, it is the first additive manufacturing system designed and engineered in-house at Renishaw and reflects the company’s 40 years of experience in supplying high quality equipment to demanding global manufacturing businesses. The new machine, which has a strong emphasis on automation, monitoring technologies and reduced operator interaction, is designed (…)

Spray like the big boys: Take compact, refillable Mini Sprays with you and use them anywhere – The perfect addition to the Motorex spray range. Motorex developed its versatile Hi-Tech sprays for daily professional use. If you just need a little, but it has to be handy at all times, the new Mini Sprays are just the thing. Motorex refill system The idea for Mini Sprays, which can be refilled as often as users want, stems from the fact that large (500 ml) spray cans are not always (…)

The Swedish tool manufacturer Seco Tools has optimised one of its most successful inventions, Minimaster, the tool system for milling operations with exchangeable fluted inserts. The Minimaster Plus® for significantly higher precision and process security has been presented to the market at the AMB 2014. With the highly productive Minimaster Plus tool system with replaceable fluted inserts, there is no longer a need for re-measurement of tool length. The Minimaster Plus product range (…)