ACT To Show New Products At MACH 2014

3 February 2014

At MACH 2014, the UK's showcase manufacturing event, Advanced Carbide Tooling (ACT) will be launching a number of new innovations from leading cutting tool manufacturer Nine9. On Stand 5051 in Hall 5, ACT will give the UK exhibition premiere to the new I-Center indexable centre drill and the W-Spotting tool for spotting and chamfering tapped holes.

The new I-Center is the world's first indexable centre drill that is capable of increasing tool life and process performance whilst eliminating re-sharpening and re-setting, resulting in improved cycle times and reduced downtime. With insert positional accuracy nailed to 0.05mm, tool length setting and repeatability is unparalleled. The I-Center toolholder is available in numerous lengths and diameter options to offer insert cutting widths for holes from 8 to 25mm diameters.

Furthermore, to ensure the new I-Center is capable of meeting the diverse needs of the marketplace, the K20F grade carbide inserts are available with TiAlN coatings for the machining of carbon and alloy steel, high alloy steel, cast iron, aluminium and aluminium alloys. Offered in DIN and ANSI dimensions, the new I-Center will certainly be a crowd pleaser at MACH 2014.

Also making a MACH debut alongside the I-Center will be the new Nine9 'W' spotting tool for spot drilling and chamfering holes in one operation. Eliminating the need for a spot drill and chamfer tool, the new 'W' spotting tool shortens cycle times, improves accuracy, hole position and consistency whilst reducing the customers' tooling inventory. By replacing two processes with one, the 'W' Spotting tool from Nine9 delivers a realm of cost reduction and cycle time saving possibilities for the end user.
The 'W' Spotting tool is available with two toolholder diameters of 10 and 16mm with a respective shank length of 89 and 97.5mm. Suitable for metric threads from M4 to M10 and imperial threads from 1/4 to 3/8UNC, the K20 grade carbide inserts with TiAlN coating has been created as a universal grade for steel and cast iron machining.

Both the new developments from Nine9 will appear alongside the company's established corner rounding cutting tools. Whilst already a formidable product in the marketplace, Nine9 has now extended the corner rounding range to provide corner rounding inserts from 0.5 to 1mm in 0.01mm increments. This product extension that will be introduced to the UK marketplace at MACH and will target the micro machining sector whilst bolstering the existing corner rounding range that is available from 1 to 6mm. The exceptional new corner rounding addition supports the 'flexibility' philosophy that Nine9 is renowned for, by enabling the corner rounding toolholders to also accept the Nine9 series of chamfering inserts. Thus reducing tool inventory and changeovers even further for the end user.