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Customized tooling made for fine machining
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Kennametal UK product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Feb 4, 2008
Extending its manufacturing facility at Ruebig/Nabburg, Germany, as the competence centre for fine machining, Kennametal now offers precision reaming tools and tools for fine-boring operations.
Kennametal now offers precision reaming tools with guide pads, tools for fine-boring operations with precision adjustment.
The company said that its product development offers innovative high-speed tools for machining centres, combining several operations in one tool.
These high precision tools can be used with traditional coolants as well as with minimum-quantity lubrication..
As far as pre-adjustments, Kennametal offers its systems RIQ and Romicron tooling requiring only a fraction of the adjustment times compared to some other tool designs, said Michael Grimm, director of Advanced Engineering, Europe.
Grimm told manufacturingtalk.com: "The requirements of the market for fine finishing tools can not be fully fulfilled with ready-made off the shelf products due to the ultra fine tolerances demanded.
Ruebig have many years design and manufacturing experience in delivering individual custom solution tools ensuring that our customer gain a competitive edge in a challenging market place".
In Nabburg/Upper Palatinate there are 300 employees designing and manufacturing symmetrical drilling, countersinking, reaming and milling tools.
At present, 4,000 tools (70% customized to suit customers individual needs) are produced per day.
* Fine machining - fine machining will be one of the highlights of the new drilling catalogue, which will be published in spring 2008.
The precision tools from Nabburg and the know-how enable Kennametal to supply tooling to most industries.
In cooperation with the Advanced Engineering division, Grimm said that Kennametal customers all over the world are offered complete solutions and services from one source.
* About Kennametal - Kennametal Incorporated (NYSE: KMT) is a leading global supplier of tooling, engineered components and advanced materials consumed in production processes.
The company improves customers' competitiveness by providing superior economic returns through the delivery of application knowledge and advanced technology to master the toughest of materials application demands.
Companies producing everything from airframes to coal, from medical implants to oil wells and from turbochargers to motorcycle parts recognize Kennametal for extraordinary contributions to their value chains.
Customers buy over US$2.4 billion annually of Kennametal products and services - delivered by its 14,000 talented employees in over 60 countries - with almost 50% of these revenues coming from outside the United States.
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