Company Profile

One of the most well known brand names of end mills in North America, Melin Tool is a family-owned business located in Cleveland, Ohio, and has been producing high quality cutting tools for the metalworking industry since 1940.

Today, Melin Tool offers one of the widest ranges of solid-carbide and high-speed steel end mills, drills, thread mills and countersinks in the industry. Utilizing state-of-the-art CNC grinding equipment, measuring and honing systems and in-house coating capabilities, Melin’s manufacturing capabilities provide its customers with the highest quality, consistency and performance of standard and custom-designed tooling. With a focus on serving the customer with world-class service, Melin provides the ultimate in customer care with outstanding personal, friendly and proficient customer service and technical support.

Exceptional flexibility and responsiveness to the customer’s needs is what really separates Melin from its competition. Whether the issue at hand requires high-performance tooling, application optimization, custom-designed engineering or just a bit of help on shortening a scheduled lead time, Melin knows how to respond and is well regarded as one of the very few large, solid-style cutting tool manufacturers that truly will go out of its way to take care of its customers’ needs.

Melin products and services are available exclusively through a select network of local industrial distributors located throughout North America and in over 25 other countries around the world. Providing technical field support by regional representatives and field engineers, Melin is there when needed ... working to make its customers more productive and providing them the competitive edge to achieve success.

Featured Products

Series MVH+ High Performance Variable Helix Carbide End Mills

Uniquely designed with variation in helix angle from flute to flute and a fully eccentric relief on its cutting edge, Melin Tool’s Variable Helix end mill provides outstanding performance in roughing or finishing applications machining Titanium, Stainless Steel and High temperature Alloys up to Rc45 Hardness. Available in standard sizes from 1/8" through 1" diameter, with a corner chamfer for added strength in heavier cuts, Melin’s Series MVH+ end mills provide chatter free machining and enable high metal removal rates.

Series CDR High Performance Carbide Drills with Coolant Hole

Made from premium submicron carbide and designed for maximum performance in high alloy steels, stainless steels and cast irons, Melin Tool’s Series CDR is available in standard drill diameters from 1/16" through 20mm and drill depths of 3xD, 5xD and 7xD, including fractional, wire gage, letter and metric sizes. With a 140-degree, self-centering drill point, an AlTiN coating and a special honed edge, these drills provide our customers highly accurate holes produced with high-feed rates and an impressive number of holes per drill.

Carbide Thread Mills

Save money in tool costs from large-diameter taps and create more accurate threads faster and more consistently with solid-carbide thread mills. Available in straight or helical-fluted tool styles and in UN or NPT pipe styles, Melin Tools carbide thread mills are saving its customers thousands of dollars in manufacturing costs. All our thread mills are manufactured in our Cleveland, Ohio, facility to exacting specifications, and are provided with AlTiN coating for maximum tool life and are supported by in-house engineering and programming assistance

Featured Services

Custom-Designed Cutting Tools

Melin Tool’s fastest growing segment of business today is custom designed tools. With our fast deliveries, in-house manufacturing, coating and honing capabilities and our wide range of product type experience, our customers are finding us to be an extremely productive and profitable source for serving their special requirements. Whether you need a minor modification of a standard tool, a complex multi-step, multi-purpose tool for a complicated application, or you need us to create a unique geometry to optimize results in a particular job, our extensive engineering group is here to help you. And yes… you’ll find our price to be very competitive. Submit your request online at www.endmill.com, or e-mail it to sales@endmill.com. Response time for quotes is always within 24 hours and often, the same day. Ask your Melin Tool sales representative for more information on our custom design capabilities

The Melin Website

Are you checking stock online yet? Are you submitting quotation requests for special tools online? You can with Melin Tool. With one of the most useful and informationally rich websites in the cutting tool industry, www.melintool.com enables you to check CURRENT inventory and delivery status 3 different ways without bothering with logins or passwords. You can even submit quotation requests for special end mills, drills, countersinks or thread mills online and receive a confirmation with the specifications requested within minutes. At www.melintool.com you can also find the specific tool you need easily, download catalog pages or current literature, find product training, and new product information. You can even take a brief tour of our facility! And now, you can enjoy our mobile website features at www.melintool.com/mobile.

In-House PVD Coating Capabilities

Did you know Melin Tool has in-house PVD coating capabilities? In addition to industry common TiN, TiCN and TiAlN coatings, we also provide AlTiN and nACo high performance coatings for high temperature alloy and hardened materials respectively. Many of our standard tools are available with these coatings from stock. And when they aren’t, we can provide the tool you want with the coating you need within 3 days! Melin also provides special coatings, such as CVD diamond and PVD Amorphous Diamond for graphite and composite materials. The right coating can substantially increase speed and feed rates and provide extended tool life, reducing the cost of your parts. There’s no reason to settle for toll coating services, where control and fast lead time is limited. Ask our distributor, or our local representative for more information,

Product Portfolio

• End Mills
  • Solid Carbide, Powdered Metal, M42 Cobalt & M7 HSS
  • High Performance & Conventional Geometries
  • Roughing & Finishing Styles
  • Micro Sizes from 0.005” cutting diameter
  • Inch & Metric Sizes
• Solid Carbide Drills
  • High Performance & Conventional Geometries
  • Coolant Through & Solid
  • Inch & Metric Sizes
• Custom Designed Solid Carbide Reamers
• Countersinks
  • Solid Carbide, M42 Cobalt & M7 HSS
  • Single & Multi Flute
• Thread Mills
• Chamfering Tools
• Routers
• Carbide Burs
• Tool Holders
• H/P Drills
• Specials

Support Services

• Technical Field Support
• Custom Designed Tooling
• Application Engineering & Optimization
• In-House Coating Capabilities
• H/P Drill Reconditioning Services
• Interactive Online Services
  

Website Links

• Distributor Locator – Find the local distributor or regional rep providing support to and serving your area.
• Product Search – Find the right product for your application and even the available inventory.
• Quote a Special – Download a form and fax it, or submit it online for a special end mills, drill, reamer, countersink or thread mill.
• Browse the Melin Catalog – Review the line, see the scope of applications served and find the specific products you need with our easy-to-use online catalog.
• Tour Melin – See the facility, the machines we use and the capabilities we have.