BIG KAISER adds stainless steel and aluminum insert grades for milling and

“Part of the success of TDC has also been its focus on the successive acquisition of well-known international cutting tool manufacturing companies and brands such as Werko in Germany, Manigley in Switzerland and Greenfield Industries in North America. Through these successful acquisitions, TDC today owns 14 internationally recognised brands, including Cleveland, Chicago Latrobe, Vermont Tap & Die, Bassett, Cle-Line, Putnam Tools, H&G, Geometric, Vers-O-Tool, Acme-Fette, Werko, Manigley and Greenfield Industries,” said Charlie Lougasy, who is President and CEO of TDC Cutting Tools Inc. and is very well known in South Africa.

The hob is registered in accordance with DIN3968 class B, but generates a gear quality extremely close to what can be expected from a class A hob. Insert changing is quick and easy, and yet features modern wedge-clamping technology for positional repeatability and the groundbreaking iLock interface for high precision and stability.

“A stock hub has been established in Johannesburg, and TDC Cutting Tools South Africa (Pty) Ltd will import and distribute TDC’s industrial brand of cutting tools to the metal working industry locally. Products that will be available include HSS straight shank drills and HSS MTS drills, with other cutting tool product groups to be phased in.”

“TDC enjoys a 20% share of the global HSS cutting tool market – every one in five industrial grade HSS drills sold worldwide is manufactured in TDC’s cutting tool factories,” says Risk.

CoroMill 176 was initially launched in modules 4-6, however, it soon expanded to incorporate modules 4-8, and now to module 9 (module is the pitch diameter divided by the number of teeth). Available for roughing, semi-finishing and finishing operations, this innovative assortment of tools offers a solution for both hobbing machines and multi-task machines/five-axis machining centers.

“One of the recent achievements of TDC has been the development of a carbide insert division, and the company has now started to manufacture carbide inserts that will shortly be released to the market.”

Every year, TDC achieves a production volume of 300 million pieces of cutting tools and 10 million metres of various bi-metal saws.

First introduced 18 months ago, CoroMill® 176 is an indexable insert hob that can reduce cutting time by an impressive 50 percent, largely through the application of cutting speeds up to four times higher than conventional high speed steel (HSS) cutters and a large number of effective inserts. The cutter offers a full-effective design compared to the half-effective designs on multi-segment hobs with tangentially mounted inserts. Furthermore, tool life is up to six times longer, which means machine downtime is also reduced in direct proportion. Another advantage is that HSS tools necessitate the purchase of several tools, which must be monitored closely due to the need for re-sharpening and re-coating.

Sandvik Coromant is a Global leading supplier of cutting tools, tooling solutions and know-how to the metalworking industry. With extensive investments in research and development we create unique innovations and set new productivity standards together with our customers. These include the world's major automotive, aerospace and energy industries. Sandvik Coromant has 8000 employees and is represented in 130 countries. We are part of the business area Sandvik Machining Solutions within the global industrial group Sandvik.

“With significant TDC manufacturing and sales volumes on every continent apart from Africa, a decision was taken to open a TDC subsidiary in South Africa. Its objective is to supply the African market with the Cleveland range of industrial cutting tool products, initially concentrating on the range of high speed steel twist drills that the company manufactures,” said Risk, who has extensive experience in marketing these products to the engineering fraternity, both locally and internationally.

For further details contact TDC Cutting Tools South Africa on TEL: 033 342 1160 or 010 492 3737, or David Risk on 060 741 4957 or visit www.tdc-tools.co.za

TDC is headquartered in Dalian, China, where in 2012 it built a state-of-the-art 250 000m² industrial park employing over 2 000 skilled cutting tool specialists. On this site, TDC’s numerous specialised cutting tool factories produce world class HSS and carbide drills, taps, end mills, saws of various types, steel coil and bar, coating plant, machine tools used in the manufacture of cutting tools, mining teeth and buttons, and grinding wheels, amongst other products.

Birgit Schoeniger Senior Account ManagerPinnacle Marketing Communications, Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 208 429 6554Email: b.schoeniger@pinnaclemarcom.comWeb: www.pinnacle-marketing.com

Hobs can be supplied with standard carbide inserts for generating gear profiles in accordance with DIN3972-2, although Custom Made options are also available for specific profiles with, for example, addendum modification, protuberance, tip chamfer and tip relief. Insert grade GC1030 with multi-layer coating is offered for high levels of wear resistance and edge line toughness in ISO P (steel) gear milling operations.

Nikki StokesMarketing Communications SpecialistMarketing & Sales Support Tel: +44 (0) 121 504 5422Email: nikki.stokes@sandvik.comWebsite: www.sandvik.coromant.com

TDC is a global cutting tool organisation, established in 1995 by owner Jeff Chee, which today employs over 4 000 staff worldwide, spanning North and South America, Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Far East. The company is a manufacturer and exporter of fully ground straight/taper shank drills, hot roll forged drills and milled taper shank drills.

The successful CoroMill® 176 range of full profile hobs for spur gear and helical gear milling has now been extended by Sandvik Coromant to incorporate larger module 9 applications.

TDC Cutting Tools Inc., one of the fastest growing cutting tool manufacturing companies in the world, and one of the world’s market leaders for high speed steel cutting tools has recently established a subsidiary in South Africa that is headed up by David Risk.