Two new multi-axis Walter Helitronic tool grinding/eroding machines have been announced by Walter Ewag UK, a member of the United Grinding Group. The machines for the production of carbide as well as PCD tooling have extended traverses to enable tools up to 380 mm long to be processed.

Cutting Tools – A new design of a milling cutter body and insert increases the economic advantages by making available a double-sided milling insert with six corners, Sumitomo says.

Highlights on machining equipment and accessories as well as cutting tools.

Joke Technology, specialist for surface finishing, announced that Jürgen Meyer is the new head of its development department.

Switzerland / Czech Republic – If you could rebuild a damaged or worn-out mould insert instead of replacing it with a new one, wouldn’t you? By Christiana M. Fuges

USA - Precision Electrochemical Machining (PECM) is a non-conventional machining process that can help deliver high-quality components productively. We have asked Kennametal Precision Surface Solutions product manager Patrick Matt to explain more about the process.

Gotools is a British company located in Rotherham, a 90-minute drive from Birmingham. In only a little over five years of existence, the company has managed to record a growth of around 50% per year. All that success started with the decision to buy a new EDM machine.

Italy-based Zare, a leading Italian company in precision engineering, trusts the reliable and high-precision technology from SLM Solutions for manufacturing in the aerospace industry. The company from Boretto is expanding its machinery with an SLM 280 2.0.

Germany – Lapping reaches its limits when processing convex or concave surfaces. A special pendulum device retrofitted to conventional surface lapping machines eliminates this drawback. By Hardy Möckl, lapping product manager at Joke Technology.

GF Machining Solutions says its Agie-Charmilles Cut P series wire-cutting electrical discharge machine can do everything from producing very light surgical tools to machining a six-tonne die-casting mould. The Cut P machine series, according to GF, has been designed for demanding high-speed machining.