Rollomatic and Advanced Grinding Solutions (AGS) are to partner together, with the latter being officially appointed as the sole UK and Irish agent for the Swiss-manufactured tool grinding machines.
Chris Boraston, managing director at AGS, says: “The chance to work with such a successful manufacturer of precision grinding machines does not come along very often. We’ve got a long and well proven track record of successfully introducing grinding machine manufacturers into our market,
and achieving record sales for them. With Rollomatic already being such a long established and well-known name, this now provides us with a very different and exciting challenge.”
For further information www.advancedgrindingsolutions.co.uk
Abrasive solutions manufacturer Weiler Abrasives has published a new catalogue that introduces its latest series of Metalynx cutting and grinding wheels. Featuring a complete series of abrasive wheels, flap discs and wire brushes, the Metalynx brand includes the new Max Performance and Pro Performance lines.
The Max range has been introduced to maximise productivity and preserve service life on steel, stainless steel, Inconel, titanium and high-nickel alloys. In contrast, the Pro line is designed to demonstrate long product life when undertaking general purpose applications on materials such as carbon and stainless steel, structural steel, iron and other common metals.
For further information www.weilercorp.com/metalynx
Sandvik Coromant was the official sponsor and exclusive tooling partner for seven skills competitions at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi last week. The global hub for vocational skills, WorldSkills, hosts a championship every two years to showcase talented students who compete in a range of competitions. Looking to win medals in their chosen skills, the students inspire thousands of young people to take up vocational careers.
This year’s competition included student representatives from 77 countries competing in 51 skill competitions. Sandvik Coromant sponsored seven of those competitions: CNC Milling; CNC Turning; Manufacturing Team Challenge, Industrial Mechanic Millwright; Polymechanics and Automation; Prototype Modelling; and Plastic Die Engineering.
For further information www.worldskills.org
An expanded and restructured strategic conference programme at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC, 13-16 November), will play a vital role in driving strategic investment decisions across the industry’s full value chain.
Investment in refining and selling the oil and gas industry’s end products, such as fuel, plastics and petrochemicals, is emerging as a core business strategy among Middle East national oil companies wanting to capture more of the processed value of their natural resource.
ADIPEC’s 2017 strategic programme will be restructured to reflect this change. An expanded programme recognises that the conference’s high-level participants – who include some of the world’s most powerful oil and gas CEOs – command businesses that cover the full scope of upstream, midstream and downstream operations.
For further information www.adipec.com
According to Walter GB, aerospace manufacturers that require special solid-carbide tooling for titanium workpieces will have to wait no longer than three weeks using the company’s newly introduced Xpress service. 6738544-WTZ.tif
An example of the cutter options available to aerospace component manufacturers is the Prototyp Ti38 Z6-10 solid-carbide milling cutter. Featuring a newly developed substrate and PVD coating, this cutter is able to operate at cutting speeds of up to 140 m/min. In addition, multi-tooth solutions with up to 10 teeth allow the feed to be increased by up to 50%, says Walter, in turn providing an increase in metal removal rates of up to 50% compared with conventional solutions.
In one case, tool life on a titanium aerospace window frame with a tensile strength of 1250 N/mm² has been raised by 154% when semi-finishing and finishing using a Prototyp Ti40 cutter. On the same component, using a Prototyp HDC Ti38L for finishing the outer contour, tool life was extended by 116%, while cutting speed increased by 25% and machining volume by 23%.
Also, the use of Walter’s CVD coating technology for its WSM45X indexable insert which, for instance, is used in the Walter Blaxx M3255 porcupine milling cutter, is seen as pivotal. Using this tooling combination, titanium structural components are typically machined using full slotting and climb milling at a cutting speed of 45 m/min and a feed of 0.12 mm. A further option is to increase the cutting speed to 65 m/min, achieving a predictable tool life of around 60 minutes.
Customers of the Xpress tool service can use the my.Walter software to design the tool online. This will be followed by an email quote for the purpose-made tool along with a 2D drawing and 3D model; all within an hour.
For further information www.walter-tools.com
