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Enhance your milling operations with Tungaloy's DoTwistBall series. Engineered to accept both radius and high-feed inserts, DoTwistBall enables a single cutter body to handle everything from aggressive roughing to precision finishing. Its innovative twisted insert geometry ensures secure clamping and exceptional stability, while optimized chip evacuation provides reliable performance across steel, stainless steel, cast iron, titanium, and heat-resistant alloys.

Tap Magic Waxx Stick puts a soft, waxy solid lubricant directly on tooling for grinding, sawing, finishing and other metalworking applications where liquid cutting fluids cannot be used.

KUKA Robotics will showcase its advanced robotic automation solutions for machine tool tending, material handling and robotic milling with the company’s OEM and integration partners at IMTS 2026 from Sept. 14-19 at McCormick Place in Chicago. KUKA will highlight robotic machine tool automation through a series of integrated demonstrations featuring multiple CNC machine tool OEM partners.

HEULE Precision Tools allows back spot facing for bore diameters to 45mm, with large widths of cuts. Now spotfacings or counterbores such as screw head counterbores can be cost effectively machined on the back side of the workpiece without rotating the workpiece, thus avoiding time-consuming clamping and repositioning.

The HU63A-5XT 5-axis horizontal machining center from Mitsui Seiki USA is a high-precision millturn system that provides aerospace manufacturers with accurate milling and turning capabilities for complete part processing from roughing to finishing in a single setup. The company says that this “virtually” ensures that even the most complex components are machined to spec the first time around.

Designed for internal grooving, ISCAR’s QUICK-I-GROOVE is the innovative solution engineered for precision, productivity, and profitability. Featuring four cutting edges, a rigid clamping design, and coolant delivery to the cutting zone, QUICK-I-GROOVE delivers exceptional accuracy, repeatability, and tool life. Its versatile insert design fits both right- and left-hand holders, simplifying inventory while maximizing flexibility on the shop floor.

END USER LNS North America Inc. 513-528-5674 www.lnsgroup.com SOLUTION PROVIDER Rimon Technologies 872-335-4974 www.rimon.tech CHALLENGE Reduce the number of service calls handled by workers and transfer knowledge from experienced to inexperienced workers. SOLUTION An AI-powered chatbot and a video-based documentation system.

As the cost of tungsten rapidly rises, cutting tool manufacturers focus on developing inserts that reduce carbide consumption while boosting productivity. By Alan Richter Like so many other commodities, the price of tungsten ammonium paratungstate (APT), which is used to make carbide cutting tools, has moved in only one direction: up — way up.