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With a sophisticated range of high-performance tools, machining solutions provider Walter has been helping customers achieve their efficiency goals for years. Here, the company looks at machining processes in aircraft construction with potential for optimisation.

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Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, has been awarded a two-year contract extension by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to continue to provide technical support services across the UK armed forces.

Tooling manufacturer, Horn has introduced a new carbide insert grade, SG66, for turning components from steel that has been case hardened to 58 HRC.

Substrates are supplied in a range of hardnesses, combined with either a wear-resistant CVD (chemical vapour deposition) coating or a universal PVD (physical vapour deposition) coating. The Easy Safe System is a particular advantage of the tool, as a groove on the underside of the indexable insert ensures that it can be installed in the insert seat quickly and precisely without any possibility of error.

The NeoMill-Alu-QBig indexable insert milling cutter from Mapal stands for top performance in high-volume milling of aluminium. The tool manufacturer thus offers a very economical solution for use on high-performance machines, such as those found primarily in the aerospace industry.

Quattrotec allows users to reduce costs across a wider range of metals. Material groups that may be machined include low and high alloy steels, stainless steels, cast irons, wrought and cast aluminium alloys as well as copper and its alloys bronze and brass. The tool programme comprises diameters of 10, 12, 16. 18, 20 and 25mm.

Walter has now launched its new X·treme Evo Plus drill from the DC180 Supreme product family that is now available up to 8XD for the first time.

The intelligent machining solution has even better performance than Boehlerit's Pentatec turning-drilling tool, which replaced up to five ISO tools and reduced machining times by up to 30 percent by reducing idle times and tool changes. Pockets in the tool magazine are also saved.

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Due to the special design, four machining operations can be performed with low vibration using just one tool – drilling into solid material (including off-centre), boring, facing and longitudinal turning.

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Under its joint sales cooperation with Austrian ISO tooling company Boehlerit, German cutting tool manufacturer, Horn is offering customers the former's new Quattrotec tool system.

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Cutting tool manufacturer Horn has extended downwards in size its M475 grooving and cut-off milling system. Formerly a user could select a grooving width of either 5, 6 or 8mm, but now smaller inserts with a cutting width of 3 or 4mm are available. In the UK and Ireland, the tools are supplied through the German manufacturer's subsidiary in Ringwood, Hampshire.The M475 system employs precision-ground, indexable inserts with four cutting edges. Positive geometry and a round chip breaker groove together with a new carbide grade, RC4G, deliver economical, productive machining performance. High toughness and hardness enable the machining of steels at elevated cutting speeds and also leads to significantly increased insert life. The cutter bodies are supplied from stock as side, shell and screw-in milling cutters, the two latter variants being equipped for internal coolant supply. Side milling cutters range in diameter from 80mm to 200mm and have cutting widths of 3, 4, 5, 6 or 8mm. As shell mills, the tools are available in diameters from 63mm to 200mm and with identical grooving widths. The screw-in cutters are for a groove width of 5mm and may be ordered in diameters from 40mm to 63mm as standard. The effective number of teeth of depends on tool diameter and ranges from two to 13. Special surface treatment of the tool body offers protection against abrasion from chips.www.phorn.co.uk

Under its joint sales cooperation with Austrian ISO tooling company Boehlerit, German cutting tool manufacturer, Horn is offering customers the former's new Quattrotec tool system. Due to the special design, four machining operations can be performed with low vibration using just one tool – drilling into solid material (including off-centre), boring, facing and longitudinal turning. Boehlerit Quattrotec turning-drilling tools are now available from Horn The intelligent machining solution has even better performance than Boehlerit's Pentatec turning-drilling tool, which replaced up to five ISO tools and reduced machining times by up to 30 percent by reducing idle times and tool changes. Pockets in the tool magazine are also saved. Quattrotec allows users to reduce costs across a wider range of metals. Material groups that may be machined include low and high alloy steels, stainless steels, cast irons, wrought and cast aluminium alloys as well as copper and its alloys bronze and brass. The tool programme comprises diameters of 10, 12, 16. 18, 20 and 25mm. Substrates are supplied in a range of hardnesses, combined with either a wear-resistant CVD (chemical vapour deposition) coating or a universal PVD (physical vapour deposition) coating. The Easy Safe System is a particular advantage of the tool, as a groove on the underside of the indexable insert ensures that it can be installed in the insert seat quickly and precisely without any possibility of error. www.phorn.co.uk

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Side milling cutters range in diameter from 80mm to 200mm and have cutting widths of 3, 4, 5, 6 or 8mm. As shell mills, the tools are available in diameters from 63mm to 200mm and with identical grooving widths. The screw-in cutters are for a groove width of 5mm and may be ordered in diameters from 40mm to 63mm as standard. The effective number of teeth of depends on tool diameter and ranges from two to 13. Special surface treatment of the tool body offers protection against abrasion from chips.

At the recent AMB 2024 exhibition in Stuttgart, Matthew Farnsworth, commercial director at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) announced that CNC machining centres manufacturer, Heller has become its latest tier 1 member.

Formerly a user could select a grooving width of either 5, 6 or 8mm, but now smaller inserts with a cutting width of 3 or 4mm are available. In the UK and Ireland, the tools are supplied through the German manufacturer's subsidiary in Ringwood, Hampshire.

Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, has been awarded a two-year contract extension by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to continue to provide technical support services across the UK armed forces.

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The Boeing X-37B spaceplane is to begin executing a series of novel manoeuvres, called aerobraking, to change its orbit around Earth, the US Space Force has announced.

In celebration of World Space Week, Space-Comm Expo has announced visitor registration is now officially live and open for the London ExCeL, event, running 11-12 March 2025.

The M475 system employs precision-ground, indexable inserts with four cutting edges. Positive geometry and a round chip breaker groove together with a new carbide grade, RC4G, deliver economical, productive machining performance. High toughness and hardness enable the machining of steels at elevated cutting speeds and also leads to significantly increased insert life. The cutter bodies are supplied from stock as side, shell and screw-in milling cutters, the two latter variants being equipped for internal coolant supply.

With a sophisticated range of high-performance tools, machining solutions provider Walter has been helping customers achieve their efficiency goals for years. Here, the company looks at machining processes in aircraft construction with potential for optimisation.

At the recent AMB 2024 exhibition in Stuttgart, Matthew Farnsworth, commercial director at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) announced that CNC machining centres manufacturer, Heller has become its latest tier 1 member.