Whether you are milling steel and cast iron, or turning steel, cast iron or stainless steels, WNT believes it has products that will lead to improved productivity and cost savings.
Launched in 2011, the company's SCR Monstermill solid carbide end mill range have proved to be effective, particularly under high performance cutting applications on steel and cast iron components, with hardness values up to 70 HRC. In these applications, WNT reports that users are seeing 25% greater performance when compared to other equivalent cutters.
These gains are achieved through the combination of a recently developed carbide substrate and the Ti1200-based AltiN (Aluminium Titanium Nitride) coating used by WNT. The result is a cutter that can withstand extreme temperatures of up to 1,200°C and have a greater resistance to tool wear. Typical tool life is 60m of cut length, even in the most abrasive of steel materials.
This increased performance delivers a highly competitive price/performance ratio. A wide range of cutter diameters are available, covering sizes between 3mm and 20mm, with a choice of short and long flute lengths as standard. To evacuate the volume of swarf created, all SCR Monstermill cutters can deliver cutting fluids or cold air directly to the cutting edge via internal coolant channels.
Turning of stainless steels has also been addressed by WNT with the development of HCN 2125 – a carbide grade that permits tool life to be increased by as much as 50%. The turning of stainless steel materials has long posed problems, with poor tool life being high on the list of areas that needed to be addressed. HCN 2125 provides a viable solution to these issues when machining austenitic, ferritic, martensitic or duplex materials thanks to its newly developed carbide substrate and Dragonskin PVD tool coating.
These two elements combine to create an insert that is highly resistant to abrasive wear at elevated cutting data, with corresponding increases in tool life.
HCN 2125 is available in all of the popular ISO insert shapes and sizes, as well as with three new chipbreaker forms. These are NF23 for finishing operations using feed rates between 0.1 and 0.35mm/revolution and depths of cut between 0.8 and 2.5mm. NM23 is designed for medium machining at feed rates between 0.15 and 0.4mm/revolution and depths of cut between 1.0 and 4.5mm. NM26 is aimed at medium to light roughing operations at feed rates between 0.15 and 0.5mm/revolution and depths of cut between 1.5 and 6mm.
WNT (UK)
www.wnt.com
Hall 5 Stand 5548
