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In This Month's CTE

Highlights from the November issue of Cutting Tool Engineering:

Manufacturers Directory online
CUTTING TOOL ENGINEERING's 2009 Buyers Guide in November features a Manufacturers Directory with more than 1,200 companies. The directory is searchable online by company name (keyword), product category and product subcategory.


Distributors Directory online
The 2009 Buyers Guide also includes a Distributors Directory with nearly 300 companies listed. The directory also is online and searchable by company name, product category, territory served and company location.


Metalworking Glossary online
The Metalworking Glossary found in the back of the annual Buyers Guide also may be searched online using an alphabetized drop-down menu. The online glossary includes more than 600 terms.


 

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CTE Plus
Hamill Manufacturing

Watch how one shop customizes an endmill for a military job

As part of CTE's October cover story on military parts, contributing editor Bill Kennedy shot video at Hamill Manufacturing showing how the company creates a custom geometry on an endmill for a military application.

CTE editor heads to Canada for WorldSkills competition

RichterI had a chance to see young machinists compete for medals and their honor at the WorldSkills Calgary 2009 competition, which took place the first week of September at Stampede Park in Calgary, Canada. (Check out his monthly blog for his take on the competition.)

Grinding Doc November

Grinding Doc wants to know, "Do you have the right grit?"


Dr. Jeffrey Badger takes a look at a common problem shops have with getting the surface finish that they want. The question he asks, "Do you have the right grit for a smooth finish?"


Featured Products

Toyoda 
Horizontal machining center from Toyoda available

Toyoda Machinery’s FH400J HMC is equipped with a 15,000-rpm spindle. The machine’s work area measures 23.6"×22"×24.8" in the X, Y and Z axes, with a table load capacity of 880 lbs. 

Iscar

Iscar expands family of lay-down inserts

Iscar Metals Inc. expanded the Heliturn lay-down family of inserts produced with the Sumo Tec grades. The new WNMX, CNMX and DNMX inserts have high-positive radial, helical cutting edges and positive rake angles.

Jet Edge
 
Jet Edge offers high-pressure waterjet intensifier pump 

Jet Edge Inc.’s new X-Stream xP90-50 is a 50-hp, 90,000-psi waterjet intensifier pump. The unit supports a 75,000-psi continuous operating pressure.


In The News

Boeing's S.C. 787 decision: What will suppliers do?

The ripples from Boeing’s decision to locate its second 787 line in South Carolina are just beginning, but the decision will obviously affect the large network of aerospace suppliers in the Puget Sound region.

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Kennametal expects growth of market for industrial tool products in 2010

Kennametal Inc. is optimistic that the market for its industrial tool products "may moderately improve" in the first half of 2010, particularly in nations with strong economic stimulus programs, the company's chief executive said recently.

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New technology boosts productivity, reduces hiring needs in Mass.

To cut costs when the economy tumbled, Peerless Precision Inc. invested in computerized equipment, partly to eliminate the use of costly subcontractors. Now that new orders are coming in, the equipment is allowing the Westfield, Mass., machine shop to expand production without adding to its workforce of about 20.

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U.S. product makers are slumping—but still No. 1

Despite a brutal recession and stiff Asian competition, it's way too soon to write an obituary for U.S. manufacturing. Just ask Robert Freund, who was able to rehire some laid-off workers this year at Checker Bag in Overland, Mo. Or Robert Griggs, whose Trinity Products in St. Charles invested $650,000 in new equipment during the deepest part of the recession.

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Manufacturers wary of adding staff despite promising economic omens

The recession has been the first true test of Gary Balfour’s 5-year-old manufacturing company. A recent uptick in business makes Balfour, president of Solid Sealing Technology Inc., believe he has seen the end of it. Now, he faces a new challenge: deciding how soon to add employees.

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Coming Next Month

Cutting Tool Engineering December 2009 Cutting Tool Engineering's December issue tackles a hot story—that is, the growth of thread milling heat-treated steel. Also on tap in December are features looking at the evolution of tool and cutter grinder software to speed production of increasingly sophisticated cutting tools, the growing use of thin-kerf cermet-tipped  circular saw blades, and our yearly recap and outlook report for the U.S. metalworking industry.
 

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