Product News

Soraluce America presents the KB-150-WR horizontal boring machine.

An open gate on an elevated mezzanine level is a serious safety concern that could result in an employee falling and sustaining severe injury, including broken bones, lacerations, or even death. For every elevated application where an open gate situation could occur, an early warning device such as Wildeck's EdgeAlert open gate alarm system could reportedly make all the difference.

Gleason Corp.'s 300GMS P analytical gear inspection system is designed to operate in production environments while yielding reliable measurement results, with integrated systems designed to compensate for the typical production floor thermal, vibratory and contamination dynamics that normally compromise the performance of metrology systems.

CribMaster released a suite of new software solutions, including CribMaster 10, CribMaster Web and CribMaster Mobile Plus, designed to help industrial distributors and manufacturers streamline inventory management processes to improve productivity and reduce operational costs.

Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. announces the availability of the new Amflex Modular Workholding – S.A.F.E. Self-Aligning Fixturing Elements.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers GN 927.5 stainless steel clamping levers with eccentrical cam, with plastic contact plate, tapped type, in inch and metric sizes.

PartMaker Inc. offers the new PartMaker mobile app for smartphones and tablets.

Featuring special high thermal conductive fillers, Master Bond EP48TC is two part epoxy paste that can be applied in bond lines as thin as 10-15µm.

ECOROLL Corp. Tool Technology has developed a new process for completely machining short hydraulic cylinders on CNC lathes. The cylinder is premachined with the company's (SKIOC) skiving head and finished with a separate (GZ) roller burning tool after an automatic tool change.

Verti-Lift introduces their complete lineup of hydraulic and pneumatic work positioners, which keep workpieces close at hand, eliminating unnecessary reaching and other operator movements and thus enhancing ergonomics.

Knight Carbide Inc. offers precision-ground carbide inserts, indexable inserts, form tools and carbide cutting tools. According to the company, the tools provide accuracy and repeatability for blueprint applications, and the carbide grades, geometries, edge preparations and coatings are fine-tuned to enhance performance.

5th Axis Inc. announces the introduction of its newest V75100 self-centering 5-axis vise.

One of the most nagging problems in manufacturing is deburring cross-drilled holes, according to J.W. Done Corp. In response, the company offers the Orbitool for in-process deburring of cross-drilled holes.

Mersen USA Inc. says its DS4C copper-impregnated EDM graphite material provides ultralow electrical conductivity, ultrahigh thermal conductivity and improves machinability, thereby enhancing ultrafine detail.

Balluff announces the expansion of its SmartLight product family.

Ti-Coating announces its new PVD coating Tinalox SN2 for indexable carbide tooling.

Wiha's new BiCut SuperCuts are available in three styles; Soft Grip, Two Component Industrial SoftGrip and 1000-volt Insulated Industrial Cushion Grip.

AMAMCO Tool offers compression routers for cutting aerospace composites and other challenging materials. The routers have advanced geometries to enable compression cutting and eliminate delamination, according to the company.

A better operation starts with better tools. Since its launch in 2013, Kennametal's NOVO digital process planning application has continued growing by supplying complete tool data and process knowledge electronically, reportedly saving process planners, cost estimators, and manufacturing engineers countless hours of catalog lookups and process guesswork. That same intelligence for driving new efficiencies is available on PC and tablet devices in the new Version 1.6.

BLM Group USA has introduced the BC80, an automated machine for cutting to length, chamfering, facing, boring and threading of tube and bar.