Product News

The wait is over for Powermax1000 and Powermax1250 owners interested in upgrading to the latest Hypertherm torch technology. Those customers can enjoy all the benefits of Hypertherm's Duramax torch series, including more durability and longer consumable life, while using their existing Powermax systems.

Geometric Technologies Inc. has announced the release of CAMWorks 2011, the latest version of its solid-based CNC programming solution.

Mitsui Seiki's new 2500mm HU100A-5XLL Horizontal Machining Center is now available and designed for machining large, complex, and heavy (up to 6600 lbs.) hard metal parts.

CGTech is now shipping the next major version of VERICUT CNC machine simulation and optimization software.

Rustlick is excited to announce the release of ULTRACUT Aero, a new premium water-soluble oil optimized for high-tech ferrous and nonferrous metals, including titanium, aluminum, Inconel and stainless steel, which are widely used in aerospace, medical and the electronics industries.

As the demand for solar energy and electronics increases worldwide, innovative equipment and processes are key to increase productivity at lower costs. Leading manufacturers of silicon wafers, the principal raw material used to produce solar panels and computer chips look to custom-manufacturers like DoALL Sawing Products to enhance the process.

Hangsterfer's Laboratories offers Boeing BAC-5008-approved coolants. S-500CF is a water-soluble oil concentrate with antiweld and antiwear compounds for machining ferrous and nonferrous metals, particularly aluminum alloys.

BIG Kaiser has introduced the new, large diameter Kaiser 318 Series, a tooling system supporting a variety of aluminum and steel components optimized for twin cutter rough boring, precision finish boring and precision OD turning operations.

Doosan Infracore's new VC430 vertical machining center features a 25 Hp motor that generates up to 12,000 rpm at the spindle and 123.6 ft-lbs of torque.

Scotchman Industries Inc. introduces a new Chip Drawer as a standard feature on all its manual cold saws to make them more user friendly with easier, cleaner chip removal.

Methods Machine Tools Inc. has introduced the new FANUC RoboCut iE Wire EDM Series, featuring a new power supply for highly accurate and efficient cutting performance in challenging materials.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has developed a universal gear grinding machine, the ZE40A, which is capable of high-precision machining of various sizes of gears up to 600mm in diameter.

You've probably heard the term "vulcanized collet" and may have wondered what it means exactly. Vulcanization was named after the Roman God of Fire, Vulcan, and, yes, the injection molding process at Hardinge does involve heat.

HEIDENHAIN Corp. has released a new absolute, inductive rotary encoder.

ZPS America announces the new 8-spindle ZPS 867 CNC multispindle production center.

Emuge Corp. has introduced a new line of High Performance JIS Taps for tapping applications at companies manufacturing products with Japanese-specified standards.

The Models FC-250EX and FC-700EX from Rush Machinery Inc. are designed for truing and dressing of flats, angles, and radii on diamond and CBN single wheels and multiple wheel packs.

The SCHUNK VERO-S is paving the way to more precision, efficiency, process reliability, and set up reduction in metal cutting.

STEVENS Engineering Inc. manufactures a wide variety of tombstones in sizes up to 40" square by 60" overall height and shapes ranging from rectangular, four-sided, Silo construction, triangular, hexagonal and octagonal.

Mitsubishi Laser introduced a higher wattage 4.5kW resonator for all 2D lasers, replacing the formerly standard 4.0kW resonator.