Product News

Dillon Chuck Jaws announces a new line Air Chuck Jaws including both Style M and Style R, such as those often machined using air chucks. CNC-machined for accuracy, the pins serve as a locator and allow precise repeatability plus fast installation.

DATRON Dynamics Inc. offers the DATRON neo compact CNC milling machine – the latest addition to the company’s line of high-speed machining systems. Designed from the ground up to deliver a productive, in-office machining solution that improves and accelerates today’s engineering workflow, the DATRON neo reportedly offers simple, clean operation and easy post-processing.

Engis Corp. has greatly increased its capacity with the addition of multistroke honing machines for small-to-medium batch sizes. Through a recent exclusive partnership with a long-established U.K.-based manufacturer, Engis now offers low-to-mid-volume equipment to complement its high-volume machines.

Milacron Fluid Technologies brand CIMCOOL announced a new product release to its CIMPULSE metalworking fluid line. CIMPULSE products are designed to cover a broad-range of applications with trouble-free performance allowing customers to use one product across a range of operations.

The Albeo AHH1-Series from Current, powered by GE, is a Class I, Division 2, Groups A,B,C, and D rated fixture for hazardous locations with high ambient temperatures and wet applications. Utilizing a sealed, IP66-rated form factor, the Albeo AHH1-Series offers customers a rugged design with exceptional performance and high reliability.

Seco’s new TK1501 and TK0501 insert grades incorporate the latest developments in next-generation Duratomic coating technology. The new dedicated cast iron turning grades reach a new level of toughness and wear
resistance, as well as reduce tool waste and process more parts per edge.

Okuma’s new GA26W high speed, compact grinder is now equipped with the intelligent OSP-P300G CNC. Okuma’s open architecture OSP-P control runs on a Windows-based platform and fully integrates the machine, motors, drives and encoders, allowing for enhanced machine performance and true customization to suit particular machining needs.

Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) and Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) optics that are manufactured to specification for FLIR, surveillance, military, and medical applications are available from Laser Research Optics. Laser Research ZnSe and ZnS Optics are custom manufactured to ISO-10110 specifications in sizes from 0.5” to 5” OD and can be coated to achieve specific wavelengths from 7 to 11 µm for ZnSe and 400 nm to 12 µm for ZnS.

Schaffner introduces its transformer rewind service, which is typically faster and more economical than purchasing a new transformer. Whether performed on-site or in-factory, Schaffner rewinds are often a desirable solution for tight budgets, tight schedules and tight spaces.

Just one wrong swivel and it's done: The touch probe collides badly with the workpiece or the chuck. To ensure that such a collision no longer leads to a prolonged machine standstill, HEIDENHAIN offers the TS 642, a universal replacement for the touch probes of HEIDENHAIN’s TS 6xx series.

E-TURN, the all-electric tube bender from BLM GROUP USA, can bend a variety of tube configurations including round, square, rectangular, flat-sided, oval and elliptical. Tube can be automatically loaded, bent and unloaded all in one machine.

KISTERS has announced the release 2016.1 of the 3DViewStation Desktop version. By adding 2D analysis and markup functionality 3DViewStation continues its expansion to 2D market. The KISTERS 3DViewStation Desktop is known for its modern user-interface, high-performance viewing, advanced analysis and integration capabilities into leading systems.

Sunnen's new SV-15 honing machine combines the DNA of the legendary Cylinder King machine with a new 9-inch Siemens touchscreen PLC to provide more features, convenience and even greater precision and consistency than the "King" of motorsports honing. The multilingual control provides a real-time display of the bore shape, allowing the operator to confirm bore straightness and make on-the-fly adjustments to correct taper or simply confirm the action of the auto-dwell feature that efficiently concentrates honing action in tight spots.

Whether you produce high-quality molds and individual parts or complete draw dies, dies or models, the Die and Mold manufacturing industry package from Tebis provides an ideal solution for every application. The design functions provide a variety of methods from the modification of existing CAD models to reverse engineering. from Tebis provides an ideal solution for every application. The design functions provide a variety of methods from the modification of existing CAD models to reverse engineering.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 421.10 technopolymer plastic hollow knurled knobs with stainless steel nonmarring tipped threaded studs, with brass or plastic tip, in metric sizes.

Hardinge Inc. announces the release of its newest vertical machining centers, the Bridgeport V480 and V710. The Bridgeport V480 and V710 machines feature fast rapid rates, high axis and spindle acceleration/deceleration, and a powerful Mitsubishi control packed with many standard features.

The Positrol cartridge arbor with interior swing clamps is designed to increase part rigidity during machining operations without interfering with tool paths.

Simonds Saw has introduced a bandsaw blade designed to provide low vibration and high efficiency cutting of steel grating applications. The new BITEC PLUS blade, manufactured by Simonds’ partner WESPA in Germany, features a wide band in a variety of widths from 1.25” to 2.0”, which provides maximum beam strength for higher blade tension and cutting rates, making it less susceptible to damage.

Based on the MD90 series, the Cameron Model 904 is specifically designed to turn any standard mill that accepts ¾” tooling into a high-precision micromachining center.

Hwacheon Machinery America Inc. introduces the C1 multiple-process turning center. Half turning center, half machining center (Y- and C-axis control), the C1 can completely manufacture parts with complicated shapes in a single chucking operation.