Today we celebrate the 15oth Anniversary of Sandvik. Join with us in congratulating the Sandvik Group for a century and a half of leading the industry in technology, expertise and service.

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Fair Lawn, N.J. — Sandvik Coromant, the world’s leading producer of tools for the metal cutting industry, is pleased to announce the opening of a new productivity center in Cypress, Calif. The new facility will open its doors for a full-day Open House event on Tuesday, April 3, 2012.

The 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m. open house will feature facility tours, executive meet and greets, technical presentations and live machine demonstrations. Attendees will also have the opportunity to speak with technical experts from Sandvik Coromant.

Designed to help manufacturers in the southwest U.S. maximize their metal cutting operations, the new Sandvik Coromant Productivity Center will be the fifth of its kind in North America, joining facilities in Fair Lawn, N.J.; Schaumburg, Ill.; Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; and Monterey, Mexico.

“Our productivity centers around the world combine theory with a great deal of hands-on practice and training for our customers,” said Robert Page, Productivity Center and Training Manager. “There is a huge customer base in the southwest region that we will now be able to provide with better support and training.”

The facility will be used to present customers and distributors with live demonstrations, seminars and advanced theory-based training courses. The Productivity Center will focus on helping American manufacturers maximize their productivity and profitability through understanding and application of the latest technologies in cutting tools, machine tools and machining processes.

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We are thrilled to be part of The Edge Factor Show’s Reality Redesigned Project. Watch as our Senior Project Leader and Reality Redesigned judge, Joann Mitchell, consults with Josh Coaplen, the Director of Research and Development at Cane Creek Cycling. The company purchased a milling machine giving them the ability to make the parts for their double barrel shock in house in the United States.

Learn more about the consulting approach to productivity from Sandvik Coromant.

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In this web cast, we introduce the Sandvik Coromant range of CBN inserts. The range offers increased productivity, high-quality finishing, and time and cost savings in hard part turning applications. Learn how CBN inserts benefit your bottom line and how Safe-Lok™ technology insures security in your processes.

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

Hello and welcome to the Sandvik Coromant web cast for CBN-tipped xcel inserts.

Hard part turning is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to grinding. Improved productivity, lower production costs and cost per part, increased flexibility and a simpler production process are a few reasons.

CBN inserts are designed specifically for productive, high-quality finishing of case-hardened materials. Sandvik Coromant has an extensive range of CBN grades and geometries to deliver top productivity and process security for a variety of applications.

To ensure process security while machining, we use a Safe-Lok system to fix the CBN tip to the carbide blank. This method provides a combined brazed and mechanical interlock, ensuring strength and reliability with a large cutting depth, and reducing risk of overloading or debrazing the CBN tip.

The CBN Xcel geometry is a patented turning concept offering a significant productivity boost when hard part machining. Unique features offer surface integrity at greatly enhanced feed rates.

A straight cutting edge blending into a wiper provides constant chip thicknesses and wear patterns to boost productivity. A low entry angle creates thinner chips, which creates lower cutting temperatures — reducing the development of crater wear.

When compared to conventional standard nose radius technology, Xcel can more than double your productivity. Here we see wear patterns after only 34 minutes. Notice the uneven flank wear and microchipping on the standard radius insert, while the Xcel insert shows smooth and even wear.

Consider CBN-tipped Xcel inserts for application in case hardened components, on primarily open features, against shoulder with undercuts more than 70 thousandths of an inch, or in depths of cut up to 10 thousandths of an inch.

CBN inserts are available in a variety of grades; each is optimized in its application area to give the highest possible productivity and process security.

This concludes our web cast for CBN-tipped xcel inserts. For more information, contact your local Sandvik Coromant representative.

This drill is a top performer for conventional drilling, chamfered holes, inclined surfaces, cross holes, stack drilling and convex/concave surfaces. With excellent chip evacuation control, when using high cutting data in long and short chipping materials, the drill provides consistently problem free drilling at high penetration rates.

The new unique geometry combined with the new flute shape provides a cutting edge shape for effective clearance of the chip, even at increased penetration rates.

Low cutting forces provide fewer problems with weak fixturing, thin walled components and loads on the cutting edge.

The drill comes in lengths 3-8xD as standard.

Learn more about tooling solutions from Sandvik Coromant.

Dr. Don Kinkard of Lockheed Martin will give the keynote presentation, “Innovative Technologies, Manufacturing and How the F-35 is Made.” In addition, Sandvik Coromant’s very own, Brian Norris, Vice President of Marketing, will moderate the Enhanced Productivity – Tooling session. Directly following, Norris will lead an industry panel discussion on the topic.

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Using extended tool reach leaves machining prone to vibration tendencies. Milling and boring operations especially have to work with overhangs when machining into bores, cavities or past component features. Vibrations during machining can limit productivity severely, put the required finish at risk and even be destructive both to tool and component if not modulated effectively.

Dampening Technology

Dampened tools have evolved in the form of boring bars, integrated into end mill shanks and as adaptors for milling. More recent developments in dampening technology means that machining with long tool overhang has moved on from being a problem-solving issue to a productivity-boosting issue.

A Range of Available Sizes: Milling and Boring

Silent Tools® boring bars and milling adaptors are available in a range of diameters so as to arrive at the best length-to-diameter-ratio for achieving the needed chip evacuation clearance and counter tool deflection. The dampened bars, have built-in technology for minimizing vibrations throughout different overhang ranges. They are developed for overhangs exceeding three to four times the bar-diameter, up to which steel bars can be used. At the longer end, carbide reinforced dampened bars can solve boring at overhangs up to fourteen times the diameter.

For milling with overhangs, a new generation of dampened adaptors has been developed. There are two lengths of adaptors, dedicated for milling with overhangs of 4-5 times the adaptor diameter and 6-7 times the diameter, respectively. Reach beyond these tool overhangs is covered by engineered dampening adaptors.

Machining Productivity and Beyond

The new adaptors, which should not be used with additional extensions, open up for increases in axial-depth-of-cut as well as higher feed rates. This has led to a new potential for considerably higher productivity and new possibilities of machining cavities and beyond component features, such as when using the extended program of over-size diameter CoroMill milling cutters. The most common areas of longer tool reach in milling wind power components are covered by these adaptors and provide new means with which to improve metal removal rates.

Learn more about Dampened tooling from Sandvik Coromant.

Has this ever happened to you? You have been running a process for a period of time and are very confident in its security. In this case, we will call security 100 components per insert edge every time with no insert failures. All of a sudden, you receive a batch of castings and your 100 components per edge dropped to 75 components per edge and the insert edge is breaking. You need to get these parts out now and you don’t have time for a long, heated debate with your material supplier. What can you do to optimize your process in the short term?

In your new reality 75 pieces is now your tool life – it’s your new 100%. But what is causing the edge to break early? The best way to find out is to run the insert to 50% and 75% of your new tool life of 75 pieces. When you do this you will be able to detect the wear mechanism that is causing the insert edgeline to breakdown. Is a crater forming and breaking through the edge line? You can use a more wear resistant grade, for example if you are using 4225 try 4215.

Is the insert developing microchips that result in the insert edgeline breaking at 75 pieces? In this case try a tougher grade – going from 4225 to 4235 or use a stronger insert geometry – use QM instead of PM. If you don’t have other insert geometries and grades in your shop to re-engineer the application, you should call your Sandvik Coromant sales representative or your authorized local distributor and get some inserts for testing.

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Excellent for different small batch production, Spectrum turning grades and geometries take away the complication of having several different tools for different jobs.

Whether external or internal machining, rough turning or finishing, machining continuously or with interrupted cuts, these inserts have been designed to be as versatile as possible, delivering high performance output in terms of reliability, tool life and chip control.

The grades can be used for turning in steels, stainless steels, HRSA, cast irons, titanium and nonferrous materials.

Two grades are being launched: GC15 combines high strength micro-grain cemented carbide with a thin, PVD coating that adds edge strength and wear resistance. GC30 has high bulk toughness with a gradient cemented carbide substrate and a highly wear- and heat resistant CVD coating.

Learn more about turning inserts from Sandvik Coromant.

The high-productive gear hobber from Höfler (HF 600) purchased in 2010 for product development, demonstration and training purposes has been a key factor for Sandvik Coromant going into the gear manufacturing application segment.

The next steps:

In order to further improve presence and support in the North American market, Höfler Maschinenbau and Sandvik Coromant have decided to team-up in the Sandvik Coromant Productivity Center in Schaumburg, Ill., just outside Chicago. A powerful Höfler HF 1000 gear hobbing machine equipped with the latest indexable insert tooling solutions is now available for training, demonstrations and joint activities with North American Customers.

“The location is the best possible as well as the facilities,” says Mr. Ralf-Georg Eitel CEO for Höfler North America.

With this investment Höfler and Sandvik Coromant are demonstrating their strong common alliance for the North American market.

Kenneth Sundberg, Business Development manager for gear milling at Sandvik Coromant is convinced that this new opportunity will enable Sandvik Coromant and Höfler Maschinenbau to implement the most effective solutions making the North American gear manufacturers even more competitive in a challenging global market.