SANDVIK COROMANT recently launched GC1230, a new grade for indexable steel milling with high metal removal rates in stable conditions. Produced with Zertivo® coating process technology, GC1230 excels ...

Which to buy first, a lathe or a mill? It’s a tough question for the aspiring home machinist with limited funds to spend on machine tools, but of course the correct answer is a lathe. With a lathe, we ...

As manufacturing sectors continue to increase their use of titanium, superalloys and other difficult-to-machine materials, ...

Modern milling machines look much the same as they did 30 years ago. However, they now must cut superalloys, titanium, and high-tensile steels to closer tolerances and at faster rates than before. To ...

CNC mills will never match real heavy metal mills on hard materials, but that won’t stop people from pushing the limits of these DIY machines. One of the usual suspects, [Ivan Miranda] is at it again, ...

The bulk of the milling machine market consists of half-lane machines weighing from 60,000 to 90,000 pounds and typically equipped with roughly 7-foot-wide cutting drums, which are powered by 600- to ...

It’s easy to assume that not much has changed with face mills for a while. There’s been so much attention on other milling processes over the last few years, and face mills, or shell mills, were ...

Technology is key to U.S. Steel Corp.’s efforts to boost its efficiency, but the challenges of retrofitting older mills with the latest in data sensors, machine learning and automation are varied and ...