Coolant-through tooling components and connectors that interfere with grooving, parting off and other turning operations become a thing of the past with the new additions to JETI (Jetstream Integrated) tooling from Seco Tools. Expansions to the range of MDT (Multi-Directional Turning), X4 (grooving and parting off) and 150.10 (parting-off) tool holders offer interference-free internal coolant capabilities and the choice to switch the underside stream channel on and off as the application requires.

The new Seco Tools Double Quattromill^® 14 cutter allows shops with lower horsepower machines to maximize their face milling operations. The face milling cutter uses double sided inserts with 8 cutting edges for cost-effectiveness as well as for increased in depths of cut in roughing, semi finishing and finishing operations. Seco designed the Double Quattromill^® 14 as a smaller version of the company’s Double Quattromill^® 22, which is ideal for large machines with higher horsepower and torque capabilities.

Seco Tools introduces its new Power Milling Chucks, with levels of holding power and transmittable torque rivalling those of hydraulic and shrinkfit holder types for maximized milling performance. Power Milling Chucks deliver enhanced application flexibility and cost effectiveness while they allow shops to reduce tooling inventories.

For manufacturers struggling to manage metalworking chips and optimize tool-life, Seco has introduced new -RR93 and -R3 geometries as part of its RCMx range of turning inserts. Designed for extreme applications such as turning railway wheels, these additions combine new roughing and medium finishing chipbreakers with industry-leading Duratomic^® grade technology.

Seco Tools has introduced 13 new full-profile threading inserts for internal UNJ and MJ thread profiles. Now a full range of UNJ and MJ thread profiles is available for both external and internal application. These inserts feature extremely tight-tolerance profiles to generate even higher-precision threads in stainless steels and heat-resistant nickel-based and titanium alloys.

Seco has expanded its industry-leading Jetstream Tooling^® solutions with new toolholders, coolant clamps and shank adapters that together optimize turning operations. The ISO turning toolholders feature coolant clamps with Seco’s JETI (Jetstream Integrated) technology, as do the VDI machine-side shank adapters. The JETI technology keeps machines up and running while effectively controlling chips and heat generation.

Machine shops seek to produce a certain number of parts of a certain quality, in a certain amount of time, at a certain cost. Consistently achieving those goals involves controlling a myriad of factors including cutting parameters, tool cost and changeover times, machine tool utilization, workpiece handling expense and material and labor costs.

With the Seco Jabro^®-Mini JM500 line of more than 180 micro end mill products, production facilities effectively and reliably machine small and nano-sized parts that are often too small for the machining operation to be easy to see. The end mills ensure process control along with predictable cutting-tool performance for these challenging micro applications, typically found in demanding industries such as aerospace, medical and 3C (computers, consumer electronics, communications).

Seco Tools expands its long-reach turning and boring capabilities with additions to its well-known series of Steadyline^® vibration-damping turning/boring bars and their respective heads. These new products include 25 mm (1.00") diameter Steadyline^® bars, GL25 turning heads, 100 mm (4.00") diameter Steadyline^® bars, and additions to the range of rough and fine boring heads for Steadyline^® bars.

Seco Tools added a new grade format and several new geometries to its already expansive line of PCBN (polycrystalline cubic boron nitride) inserts. These additions enhance hard turning operations, broaden the extremely tough Seco CH3515 insert grade and introduce a new solid CBN150 insert grade, special long and short wiper geometries and laser-etched chipbreakers.