Top Gear Cutting Tools with New Material and Coating

"Simply order from the catalog and two days later the new shaping tool will arrive: Liebherr makes the process as straightforward as this for customers and offers a broad range of stock tools available for immediate delivery," said a company spokesperson. "In addition, instead of cutting material ASP2030 with a titanium nitride (TiN) coating, stock tools are now made as standard from ASP2052 with Alcrona Pro."

"This is essentially a performance upgrade," said Haider Arroum, Team Leader of Tool Sales at the Ettlingen, Germany, factory. "The reason is that our customers have to machine increasingly harder materials, such as 42CrMo4 (900 to 1,200 N/sq. mm), for example, and need a higher tool performance as a result. These new materials were seen as somewhat exotic in the past, while these days they are pretty widespread. We opted for this development to ensure that our stock tools offer more flexibility for our customers."

"Due to the new material and coating combination, the tool life can be significantly extended," said the spokesperson. "It also facilitates higher cutting speeds in wet and dry machining without negatively affecting tool life."

"The changes are to the potential cutting speed and the tool life where quality is markedly improved by the new coating," said Arroum. "We already employ this cutting material and coating combination in other technologies, such as gear skiving. The technology is tried and tested and reliable." Other coatings and cutting materials are still available.

Standard compliant tools can be ordered from stock via an order form or the online catalog.

For more information contact:

Liebherr Gear Technology, Inc.

1465 Woodland Drive

Saline, MI 48176-1259

734-429-7225

info.lgt@liebherr.com

www.liebherr.com