All News
SGS Tool at the Tooling Show 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Extreme-performance, solid carbide tooling from specialists
Stand No. T122
With a wealth of experience and expertise in the manufacture and supply of an extensive range of precision tooling for the aerospace industry, SGS Tool is highlighting at the Tooling Show its pre-eminence in high-performance solid carbide tool technology.
Answering unique tooling challenges is fundamental to SGS Tool’s everyday existence, and the company’s status as official Product Supplier to the pioneering BLOODHOUND 1,000mph World Land Speed Record project is indicative of its collaboration with extreme technology projects.
Headquartered in Ohio, USA - with European subsidiaries in France, Germany and Italy, and further representation globally - SGS is a major international player with very extensive facilities, and its growth and success is due in part to its very substantial R&D resource. This is directed at developing and manufacturing tool solutions for the highest technology applications, particularly in cutting exotic metals and composites within extreme tolerances and exacting standards of finish.
Equally, with a significant manufacturing base in the US, and a further operation at the European headquarters in the UK, together with rapid turn-around of orders for both stock items and specials, SGS is well-equipped to fulfil the very specific needs of its aerospace customers.
Within the SGS Tool high-performance solid carbide product portfolio - featured on the Show stand - are leading-edge products including the latest generation Z-Carb-AP (‘Advanced Productivity’) end mills which, as the name implies, enables very significant user benefits.
The patented variable rake design of these latest SGS end mills lifts the product’s performance into a new dimension, with the core benefits of superior finish and greater productivity, due to the ability to cut deeper and wider without suffering the potential degradation caused by the creation of a damaging harmonic sound cycle.
The four-flute SGS Z-Carb AP features TI-NAMITE-A (AITiN) coating and is available in an extensive range, both fractional (1/8” to 1”) and metric (8mm to 38mm) diameters.
The well-established two- and three-flute SGS S-Carb end mill is also showcased in Paris. Once again, excellent productivity and finish are major benefits, with the design focus of flute design and symmetrical end gashing contributing to improving tool balance at higher spindle speeds, to deliver a superior surface finish on the workpiece.
The design of the S-Carb allows effective chip removal at high feed rates and lower cutting forces than comparable products, as well greater efficiency when it comes to plunging.
The growth of carbon composite material usage in aerospace, and the absence of effective cutting tools, led SGS to develop its unique, purpose-designed CCR-20, Carbon Composite Router, which is also featured strongly on the SGS stand.
This 12-flute router, now in use with major aerospace and F1 motorsport companies, has been developed specifically to eliminate fibre-breakout when machining or trimming carbon-fibre reinforced polymer materials, whilst the patented even-helix flute form and cutting-edge, chip breaking geometry, provides a smoothly machined finish that results in a reduction in the cutting forces required.
The benefit to the user is also an increased tool life, underlined in recent cutting trials on various carbon-fibre weaves, when SGS Series-20 CCR tooling lasted at least twice as long as PCD (polycrystalline diamond) tooling.
Further information:
SGS Carbide Tool (UK) Ltd
Unit 1
The Metro Centre
Toutley Road
Wokingham
Berkshire
RG41 1QW
UK
Tel: + 44 (0)1189 795200.
E-mail: sales@sgstool.co.uk
Web: www.sgstool.com
