Customers of Crystallume PVD in the western U.S. are served by the company's Northern California facility. Crystallume PVD coatings for cutting tools, medical parts, forming tools, and semiconductor applications include titanium nitride, zirconium nitride, chromium nitride, titanium carbonitride, and aluminum-titanium nitride.
Crystallume PVD
Santa Clara, Calif.
crystallume.com
Drills for difficult materials
The KUB Centron V46/V47 family of drills, featuring design improvements for increased concentricity, tackles difficult materials or interrupted cuts. Pilot-drill life is improved by 25 X.
A gentle transition from the chip space in the drill head to the basic element is provided along with a newly designed connection between the drill head and basic element for high torque and efficiency. Direct application of coolant onto the face of the tool ensures optimum cutting-edge coolant supply.
Komet of America Inc.
Schaumburg, Ill.
komet.com
Acquisition creates U.S. milling-systems source
With its acquisition of Widia, Kennametal is the U.S. manufacturer and supplier of the company's tooling and technology. Kennametal's offering includes Widia's lines of insert grades and geometries, crankshaft and camshaft-machining products, and oil and gas threading products. Widia products available through Kennametal include M750 HexaCut face-milling cutters, M660 end-mill and face-milling systems, M680 square-shoulder-milling systems, and M100 die/ moldmilling systems.
Kennametal Inc.
Latrobe, Pa.
kennametal.com
Saw blades for thin aluminum and steel
M.K. Morse Co.
Canton, Ohio
mkmorse.com
Insert coating for cast iron
TX 100 is available in a range of insert shapes and geometries, including CNMG and WNMG in MR7 geometry, for automotive, foundry, and agricultural applications.
Seco-Carboloy Inc.
Warren, Mich.
carboloy.com
Hollow mills for screw machines
Somma Tangi-Square hollow mills, with inserts that cut tangentially instead of radially, are for Davenport, CNC, and other screw machines.
One set of three insert slides turns diameters from 1/8 to 3/8 in., and another set turns diameters from 3/8 to 5/8 in. Insert slides are interchangeable, and inserts have four right-hand cutting edges repeatable within 0.0001 in. Somma hollow mills can be supplied with coolant attachments.
Somma Tool Co.
Waterbury, Conn.
sommatool.com
U.S. CUTTING TOOL INSTITUTE BILLINGS INDEX | |
Index for February '03—January '04 | |
| February.....$125,288,689 .......112.9% | August........$116,382,313 .......106.8% |
| March ........$134,260,197 .......122.1% | September...$125,456,973 .......115.4% |
| April...........$123,526,680 .......112.9% | October ......$132,331,224 .......121.3% |
| May............$119,703,248 .......110.0% | November ..$116,384,449 .......107.1% |
| June............$123,443,633 .......113.6% | December ...$121,200,994 .......111.7% |
| July.............$111,215,159 .......102.1% | January.......$126,819,295 .......119.2% |
