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Without the right application techniques, even the best tools can fall short of their potential. Sandvik Coromant can provide you with the latest developments in materials, coatings, and tooling technologies.

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Composite Machining: Sandvik Coromant and Precorp

Quality control along with achieving good security and productivity levels are the drivers in tool selection. Sandvik Coromant and Precorp diamond coated and PCD-vein technology drills have been developed as dedicated solutions to suit various material and set-up applications.

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Reduce cutting time by up to 50% in gear milling

Sandvik Coromant introduced a new full profile hob for gear milling, CoroMill 176. This indexable carbide insert hob can reduce your cutting time by 50% and more than double your tool life compared to traditional high speed steel cutters.

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Bulldozing Big Workpieces: CoroMill 360

When applied throughout the shop, CoroMill 360 allowed MSI Corp. to increase productivity by 75 percent. In the process, the cutter got a nickname — “The Bulldozer.”

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Gear Cutter Innovations for Demanding Machining

Sandvik Coromant has developed a new assortment of indexable insert gear milling cutters, a development that has taken place in close cooperation with our customers. Essential engineering know-how together with a long experience in the metal cutting area is a guarantee that a tool solution suits your needs.

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Investing to Increase Machine Utilization

Too often the tooling is considered after the investment phase and the extra investment required is not budgeted for, which limits the possibility to optimize the efficiency and utilization. Investing in optimized high pressure (HP) coolant tools with quick change capability ensures that the payback on a new machine investment is as short as possible with typically 25% extra machine utilization time.

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Sandvik Coromant Partners with Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology

Sandvik Coromant has joined the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT). The nonprofit organization, located in East Hartford, Conn., is committed to providing workforce development and technology advancements in areas of manufacturing, education, training, energy and entrepreneurialism.

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Ceramic Machining and Turning

Ceramic grades can be applied in a broad range of applications and materials; most often in high speed turning operations but also in grooving and milling operations. The specific properties of each ceramic grade enable high productivity, when applied correctly. Knowledge of when and how to use ceramic grades is important for success.

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Threading Web Cast: CoroThread 266

In this web cast we examine an innovative new threading concept, CoroThread 266, with applications in oil and gas, mechanical, and aerospace industries. Learn how this new threading approach inhibits movement in the insert and improves both accuracy and indexability.

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Tooling Up for Micromachining

In micromachining, the parts may be small, but the tooling and machining options are wide open. And with all of the challenges that come with micromachining — tight tolerances, stringent quality demands, hard-to-machine materials — choosing the right methods is critical.

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A New Paradigm in Gear Hobbing

The transmission of rotating movements without gear wheels is unthinkable. Whether in mechanical engineering, in automotive and transport technology, in railways, in shipbuilding, and even in energy production, without gear wheels nothing would turn anymore. Transmissions also have to be efficient, as does the manufacture of gears.

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