Lenox continues to advance its range of industrial products with the introduction of the new Armor VP bandsaw blade.

The Armor VP is pitched at customers seeking high cutting rates and long blade life across a wide range of materials. Target users include steel service centres and metal manufacturers within the aerospace, oil and gas, and defence industries.
Armor blades by Lenox were first introduced to the market in 2005, and the company has continued to make enhancements to the product line over the years, the latest of which is the Armor VP.
A major feature of the blade is its state-of-the-art coating technology – an enhanced AlTiN formulation that protects the teeth from heat, allowing for faster cutting rates and increased productivity compared with non-coated carbide blades. In addition, an advanced grade of carbide that is honed with Honex technology limits tooth wear, enabling long blade life.
“The Armor VP bandsaw blade is already performing extremely well with our customers, allowing them to increase their productivity,” confirms Dan Fernandes, senior product manager. “At Lenox we’re committed to understanding the needs of our customers and designing innovative tools that help them to be more efficient in their everyday tasks.”
For further information www.lenoxtools.com

Bahco’s range of power-tool accessories, which is said to be widely acclaimed by trade professionals, is now being extended to include high-performance abrasive cutting and grinding wheels, as well as diamond discs.

Manufactured in Europe, these competitively priced, hard-wearing products have been designed for working with hard-to-machine materials, including metal, Inox, reinforced concrete, ceramics, brick and stone. The assortment includes both bonded abrasive and coated abrasive cutting and grinding wheels, along with diamond grit discs.
Bonded abrasives are ideal for cutting off or grinding using hand-held equipment, including angle grinders, straight grinders and vertical grinders, while coated abrasives are universally used to grind, deburr, finish or polish workpieces in metal and Inox.
Three variants of diamond cutting discs are available within the new Bahco range, which are designed specifically for cutting bricks, ceramics or reinforced concrete.
For further information www.bahco.com

With the new KPK series, Kyocera is adding a new product line to its parting-off range. The KPK series has been developed to provide a high-performance parting-off solution supported by a strong clamping mechanism for added safety and security.

Kyocera’s KPK series is said to ensure stable and safe cutting. When it comes to parting-off operations in general, the workpiece can be difficult to secure, which leads to rigidity and chattering issues. Therefore, the cutting speed is usually low at the rotational centre of the workpiece. In addition, tools tend to be broken easily by chip issues.
All of these problems are said to be eradicated with the KPK series as it features a new insert, blade and tool-block design for rigid, safe and speedy parting-off operations in workpiece materials that include steel, stainless steel, cast iron and aluminium. Due to easy insert replacement, downtime is reduced to a minimum. The firmly-secured insert uses three contact surfaces to ensure safe clamping, which eliminates chattering and makes the parting-off process a lot safer.
Proprietary chip-breaker technology is inherited from the KGD line-up and is said to provide excellent chip control. Thanks to this technology, tool life is longer and the machining stable, says Kyocera. The rigid tool-holder block not only prevents chattering, but provides internal coolant, which again increases tool life, even under normal pressure.
For further information www.kyocera-unimerco.co.uk

Horn has expanded its DTM face-milling system to include inserts for the mirror-finish machining of non-ferrous metals and plastics. DTS inserts, which are tipped with monocrystalline diamond (MCD), are said to generate virtually perfect surface finishes with flatness of less than 1 µm.

The new DTS inserts are tailored to the DTM face-milling system and achieve high levels of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in conjunction with pre-machining inserts. Either polycrystalline diamond (PCD) or chemical vapour deposition diamond (CVD-D) is used for pre-machining, depending on the material being processed. All tools for mirror-finish machining are generally designed with single cutting edges, while the remaining insert seats contain roughing or balancing inserts.
The MCD-tipped cutting edge is set to an axial projection of 0.02 mm. Due to the structural design, the PCD-tipped inserts always pre-cut radially. As a result, it is virtually impossible for the MCD insert to be overloaded or damaged. The insert seats of the DTM milling body can be adjusted in the axial direction via an adjusting screw. Every 10° of rotation moves the insert seat by 0.01 mm, which means that the axial run-out of the individual cutting edges can be adjusted with micrometre precision.
An internal coolant supply ensures targeted cooling of the contact zone and efficient chip removal, while the low mass of the aluminium body protects the spindle and reduces energy consumption compared with steel bodies. Horn offers a fine-balancing option for the body to achieve high cutting speeds of up to 5000 m/min and ensure quiet running.
For further information www.phorn.co.uk

As the manufacturing sector begins its recovery from the downturn attributed to COVID-19, Ceratizit has stepped up to provide a helpful hand in controlling tooling costs.

The introduction of its Standard Line of ISO turning inserts is said to provide customers with significant cost benefits, while retaining quality and performance.
In order to achieve these cost savings for customers, Ceratizit has streamlined the Standard Line into just three grades, with a reduced number of seven insert shapes. These shapes include the popular CNMG, DNMG, CCMT and DCMT styles, in a range of insert sizes, giving over 100 inserts from which to select. As highlighted by the insert designations, both positive and negative inserts are available, with a choice of two chip-breaker styles to suit specific machining applications.
Standard Line inserts are manufactured to the company’s exacting standards at Ceratizit’s Reutte, Austria facility, and by limiting the range to the most popular styles and sizes, volume manufacturing is helping to drive down costs.
“The Standard Line of turning inserts will benefit many customers, particularly those in the subcontract sector, where batch sizes may be low and frequently changed, and where business is price-focused,” explains Tony Pennington, managing director of Ceratizit UK & Ireland. “For example, savings when compared with mainstream competitors can be as high as 75% per insert, giving customers the competitive edge they are looking for in these challenging times.”
Standard Line turning inserts are available ex-stock with the same delivery promise as with all of Ceratizit’s products; if ordered by 18:30, delivery is guaranteed the next morning before noon.
For further information www.ceratizit.com