Product News

Fives brings off-centerline turning, drilling, milling and tapping capabilities to its Giddings & Lewis vertical turning centers with a new Y-axis attachment, that combines a C-axis head with table and X and Z axes motions. The attachment, available fully integrated on new VTCs or as a retrofit, allows for single-setup processing of flanged parts, pumps, compressors, motor housings, fluid routing parts, intakes and exhausts, among others.

J.W. Winco Inc. offers DIN 580-NI Stainless Steel Lifting Eye Bolts in metric sizes.

Elbo Controlli is continuing its advancement into the tool management market with a new generation of tool presetters distributed by Koma Precision Inc.

Chevalier's FBL-520D heavy-duty horizontal turning lathe, for machining heavy parts and large pipe threading, is in demand by the energy and aerospace industries.

Ingersoll Cutting Tools says its Hi-FeedMidi high-feed milling cutters with strong, positive rake face angles, four insert indexes, rigid clamping and high tensile screws provide efficient, worry-free, cost-effective machining.

A line of welding end prep tools that are now available in battery and electric powered models for machining tube and pipe where air is not available is being introduced by ESCO Tool.

TeraDiode has announced shipment of its first four kilowatt high brightness TeraBlade laser doubling the power density of the direct-diode platform.

Laser Marking Technologies LLC, a division of The LMT Group, has introduced a 3D digital scan head.

Amacoil-Uhing Model RG linear drive assemblies feature an option for fine adjustment of travel distance.

GTI Predictive Technology Inc., creators of the iPad Vibration Analyzer, announces its newest VibePro Apps for The Apple iPad.

SCHUNK has developed the manual chuck ROTA-S flex, particularly for machining a wide workpiece range on mill/turn machines.

HEIDENHAIN is expanding its third generation of absolute inductive rotary encoders with the ExI 11xx series, providing a single encoder safety solution for many industries, such as packaging, automation and robotics.

Kafko has introduced a line of Oil Eater Flex Line parts washers that offer three tiers of features with add-on options.

Leine & Linde introduced the use of Siemens DRIVE-CLiQ communication protocol into its rotary encoder product line in 2012, and is now offering this interface in its inductive 600 absolute rotary encoder series from Heidenhain.

In tool grinding all individual processing steps are part of a coherent value chain. Therefore, it is important that the filtration process of metal coolants is integrated seamlessly in this value chain. When operational requirements or technical improvements cause changes and flexibility is needed, the filtration system should meet those new needs. The filtration specialist Vomat meets these challenges with a line-up of high-tech systems.

Hexagon Metrology announced the release of the new HP-O non-contact scanning probe for high accuracy measurement and inspection applications.

A new product line of multiple-passage soft-seal rotating unions is available from Deublin Co.

An advanced image analysis software system that helps turn Olympus microscopes into high-performance analysis stations, OLYMPUS Inspector Series software provides users with accurate, reproducible particle size and distribution data.

DE-STA-CO introduces a new electric pivot unit that is smaller and lighter than traditional pneumatic units, while providing uniform torque and enhanced versatility.

WEISS North America Inc. has introduced its latest in dynamic drive technology for your basic axis, the lightweight, aluminum profile-based HG 12 and HG 25 linear motor axes.