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LMT Fette
Address:
304 Bedworth Road
Longford
Coventry
CV6 6LA
UK
Telephone: (UK) +44 24 7636 9770
http://www.LMT-tools.com
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Listing of all 20 news releases from LMT Fette:
LMT distributes hardmetal rods
LMT (UK) has announced that a range of submicron and ultra-fine grain hardmetal rods and blanks produced at LMT's Boehlerit division in Austria is now available.
News from LMT Fette ( 1 September 2008)
LMT Fette creates wireless thread rolling
LMT's Fette division has developed a thread rolling head that uses Bluetooth technology to control the rolling cycle and monitor the process.
News from LMT Fette (20 August 2008)
LMT cutter doubles face milling speeds
LMT's Kieninger division has developed a multiple tooth milling cutter system that is able to run at up to double the speed of a normal face mill.
News from LMT Fette (22 July 2008)
Reaming/fine boring application expertise expanded
LMT (UK) has appointed Kevin Lee as sales engineer, who has 28 years' experience in tool design and application of carbide, polycrystalline diamond (PCD) and cermet technology.
News from LMT Fette (26 June 2008)
Wiper insert triples turning feedrates for SS, CI
The HPT Wiper Insert is claimed by LMT to increase turning feedrates threefold while improving surface finishes in annealed, hardened and tempered and stainless steels and CI.
News from LMT Fette (16 June 2008)
Reference book has over 30,000 tooling items
LMT has made available, free of charge, a very comprehensive 1,400-page reference book containing over 30,000 tooling items from six companies.
News from LMT Fette (29 May 2008)
Drill is diamond-coated to machine composites
LMT Fette has introduced a diamond coated parabolic drill to overcome delaminating, flaking, splintering and whiskering, when drilling machine carbon fibre and carbon graphite materials.
News from LMT Fette (15 May 2008)
CBC milling of tough tool steel demonstrated
High performance metal cutting in tough P20 tool steel will be demonstrated by LMT Fette on one of the latest heller horizontal machining centres at the UK's MACH 2008 exhibition.
News from LMT Fette (21 April 2008)
Nano-coated taps thread cut 30-50% longer
A range of nano-coated threading taps for blind and through holes has been developed to extend production life between 30 and 50% over conventional TiCN coated taps.
News from LMT Fette (29 February 2008)
Milling insert overcomes ball nose problems
Milling insert overcomes problems associated with ball nose copying style inserts where zero cutting speed at the centre causes error of form and premature failure of the insert.
News from LMT Fette (13 February 2008)
Carbide cutting tool inserts prices cut at MACH
During the UK's MACH 2008 show, visitors to the LMT Fette stand can buy 30 inserts in one grade and in one chip breaker geometry for just GBP 75.00 - a saving of up to GBP 130.
News from LMT Fette (12 February 2008)
Roughing cutter raises Al alloy feed rates 50%
User application article A special solid carbide roughing cutter with fully integrated chip breakers increased axial feed rates by 50% when 5-axis machining wrought aluminium alloys and eliminated erratic tool performance.
News from LMT Fette (20 December 2007)
CNC automatic lathe rolls serrations too
User application article By combining the rolling of serrations on steering shaft with metal cutting operations on a CNC automatic lathe, a manufacturer is saving over GBP 90,000/year.
News from LMT Fette (30 October 2007)
Mating of the toolshank to holder is secure
The latest LMT Bilz ThermoGrip induction shrinking units allow automated secure mating of the shank of a cutting tool to its toolholder.
News from LMT Fette (10 October 2007)
Nano coatings extend thread tap life by 30-50%
A multi-layer nano-structured coatings on taps being used to thread blind or through holes, in steels, heat resistant, stainless and tool steels, extend production life by between 30-50%.
News from LMT Fette ( 6 September 2007)
Milling inserts have integrated cooling flutes
A range of ball nose and toroidal indexable milling inserts have integrated cooling flutes for through the tool air supply to provide more efficient chip evacuation.
News from LMT Fette (21 August 2007)
Tooling firm appoints UK managing director
LMT Fette has appointed Trevor Tolley as UK managing director to build a direct sales and distribution network around the company's high performance tooling products.
News from LMT Fette (17 August 2007)
Ceramic coated inserts turn steels at 300m/min
As well as enabling a CNC lathe to turn steels at cutting speeds up to 300m/min, nano-crystalline TiCN ceramic coated inserts offer a longer tool life - up to 50% - compared with coated inserts.
News from LMT Fette (13 August 2007)
Heat and shrink tooling raises accuracy
Across the UK, a tooling specialist will be demonstrating how inductive heating and shrinking of cutting tool shanks gets higher accuracy and concentricity from spindle tooling.
News from LMT Fette (31 July 2007)
Forming taps increase hole threading speeds
A forming tap threading system that uses an interchangeable solid carbide insert with through the holder coolant increases blind and through hole tapping speeds at lower cost.
News from LMT Fette (20 June 2007)
