Displaying items by tag: Sandvik Coromant

Camilla Nevstad Bruzeluis will drive global sustainability strategies at the metal cutting firm

To bolster its Sustainable Business Program, Sandvik Coromant has appointed Camilla Nevstad Bruzelius as its Head of Sustainable Business. Joining in March 2022, Nevstad Bruzelius will be tasked with driving Sandvik Coromant’s sustainability initiatives forward, as the company aims to make metal cutting more environmentally friendly for people, the planet and business profit.

Camilla Nevstad BruzeluisWith 20 years of experience at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently as deputy head of the Global Agenda Department, sustainable business has long been at the core of Nevstad Bruzelius’s career. She has vast experience aligning with the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supporting international environmental and climate initiatives and further issues related to energy, circular economy and multilateral cooperation. Camilla has also served as head of the Sustainability Group at the Swedish Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York and as chief of staff to the Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate.

Now, as she takes on a new challenge at Sandvik Coromant, Nevstad Bruzelius will use her wealth of experience to drive and develop the company’s own sustainability initiatives. Sustainable development forms an important part of Sandvik Coromant’s business strategy. The company’s mission is to develop metal cutting solutions and services that use fewer natural resources and consume less energy, while making their customers’ applications more economically efficient. In fact, Sandvik Coromant has already developed its own sustainability goals for 2025, which include becoming more than 90% circular and halving the carbon impact of its production processes.

As head of sustainable business, a new role for Sandvik Coromant, Nevstad Bruzelius will champion these sustainability goals and communicate their progress with internal and external stakeholders, while also focusing on areas such as Sandvik Coromant’s cemented carbide circularity program, which allows customers to sell their used cutting tools back to Sandvik Coromant, who recycle the solid carbide to make new tools.

“Appointing a Head of Sustainable Business is the next step in our journey towards making lasting, sustainable change,” said Magnus Ekbäck, Vice President for Strategy and Business at Sandvik Coromant. “We’ve implemented many activities over the years, having started recycling initiatives for our carbide scrap as early as 1970. But we know there is always more we can do. With Camilla’s guidance, we hope to reach our ambitious sustainability goals and help our customers being more sustainable in their own operations.”

To learn more about how Sandvik Coromant is championing sustainable manufacturing in metal cutting, visit the website.

Sandvik Coromant

Part of global industrial engineering group Sandvik, Sandvik Coromant is at the forefront of manufacturing tools, machining solutions and knowledge that drive industry standards and innovations demanded by the metalworking industry now and into the next industrial era. Educational support, extensive R&D investment and strong customer partnerships ensure the development of machining technologies that change, lead and drive the future of manufacturing. Sandvik Coromant owns over 1700 patents worldwide, employs over 7,700 staff, and is represented in 150 countries.

For more information visit www.sandvik.coromant.com

Polycrystalline diamond (PCD) veined CoroDrill^® 862 micro drill offers way forward for manufacturers

Can luxury watchmaking go green? While there’s a growing onus on watchmakers to be more sustainable, they must also fashion masterpieces of micro engineering from some of the world’s toughest materials, like ceramics. But these materials can cause serious issues with regards to tool life. Here, James Thorpe, global product manager at the leader in metal cutting Sandvik Coromant, explains how advanced tools including its CoroDrill^® 862 micro drills can give enhanced wear resistance for more sustainable production.

Perhaps the most extreme recent example of sustainable watchmaking is the so-called Garbage Watch by Vollebak, a radical design-led British clothing brand that makes clothes and accessories using emerging materials, with new technologies and processes. Vollebak says its products are “of the future” while also being sustainable. Despite its name, the Garbage Watch is a coveted made-to-order item that has featured in the world’s top design publications.

“I thought, you must be able to build a watch out of e-waste,” Vollebak co-founder Nick Tidball told Esquire magazine earlier this year. Esquire’s article mentions findings from the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor report that a record 54 million tonnes of electronic waste was generated by all industries globally in 2019, which was up 21% in five years. Precious metals with a value of $1.7 billion were recovered from this e-waste, but this was only 17% of the total recyclable amount. The overall value of the precious metals would have been closer to $10 billion.

Ceramics are tough to machine but increasingly used in all-black luxury watches.

This figure shows how far industry is falling behind in making full use of recyclable e-waste. But steps are being made to rectify this, including by watch manufacturers. Let’s look at another e-waste material, ceramics — solid compounds that consist largely of inorganic and non-metallic components bound by strong chemical bonds. They are fully-recyclable and are becoming more popular among watch designers. According to SwissWatchExpo, advantages of ceramics include their exceptional hardness, especially when compared to steel and gold, and they are a good material for all-black watches which continue to gain popularity.

But ceramics are often very difficult to machine. As confirmed by a study by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the BMS College of Engineering in Karnataka, India: “Machining of ceramics is also plagued by surface damage, excessive tool wear, and edge chipping when machined using conventional techniques.” It continues: “Non-conventional techniques such as electric discharge machining (EDM) and abrasive water jet machining are characterized by poor surface finish and excessive occurrence of pits, respectively.”

BMS College’s report identifies achieving dimensional accuracy and minimizing collateral damage, such as surface cracks, as the main challenges of machining ceramics — and neither obstacle is conducive to sustainable manufacturing. How can watchmakers overcome these challenges?

Drilling ceramics

The answer lies in more wear-resistant tools. Sandvik Coromant has evolved its tool offering by introducing two new micro drill families to its product range, CoroDrill® 462 with -XM geometry and CoroDrill^® 862 with -GM geometry, which each offer a wide range of cutting diameters and lengths. Both tools are designed to be ideal for precision machining in industries dealing with small parts, while also offering more sustainable performance.

In particular, each tool is designed to offer superior wear resistant properties that deliver outstanding performance with challenging materials within all ISO applications areas, including ISO P, M, K, N, S, O and H. This is further enhanced by the option of purchasing the micro dill with a polycrystalline diamond (PCD) vein cutting edge. Based on successful tests of PCD drills on micro parts made from platinum, Sandvik Coromant has found that PCD is up to 100 times more wear resistant than solid carbide and, in addition, is more accurate and can produce tighter tolerances than solid carbide tools.

The tools are also suitable for machining ceramics and semi-fired ceramics. In one test, a Sandvik Coromant CoroDrill® 862 tool with a veined PCD cutting edge was used in a horizontal machining centre to drill 8.38 mm (0.330 inch) deep blind holes in an alumina ceramic workpiece, a fine ceramic material well-known for its chemical and physical stability, with no pecking. The tool was run at a diameter (D_c) of 1.70 mm (0.067 inches), a cutting speed (v_c) of 53 m/min (174 ft/min) and feed rate (f_n) of 0.025 mm/z (00.001 in/z).

Sandvik Coromant’s CoroDrill® 862 with -GM geometry can be further enhanced with a PCD vein cutting edge.

In the end, 933 holes were drilled and the hole quality and tool life were both excellent. Aside from these results, the key takeaway is the lifecycle advantages of CoroDrill^® 862 micro drill. Customers can achieve longer-lasting, reliable and predictable performance that better-complements the plant’s sustainability strategy. Sandvik Coromant’s engineers also recommend PCD to those seeking to drill micro-sized holes in notoriously difficult-to-machine materials, such as titanium, aluminium, glass and also ceramics.

As with macroscale applications, the importance of coolant must also be considered in microscale applications like watchmaking. It’s critical to have quality coolant delivery to effectively evacuate chips when performing deep-hole drilling with micro tools.

The features and performance of veined PCD for extended tool life, are shown to overcome the machining challenges posed by tough materials like ceramics. Sandvik Coromant’s expanded CoroDrill^® family of tools show that more productive and sustainable production processes are available, and can help contribute towards a greener future for watchmakers.

Sandvik Coromant

Part of global industrial engineering group Sandvik, Sandvik Coromant is at the forefront of manufacturing tools, machining solutions and knowledge that drive industry standards and innovations demanded by the metalworking industry now and into the next industrial era. Educational support, extensive R&D investment and strong customer partnerships ensure the development of machining technologies that change, lead and drive the future of manufacturing. Sandvik Coromant owns over 1700 patents worldwide, employs over 7,700 staff, and is represented in 150 countries.

For more information visit www.sandvik.coromant.com

~ HCL CAMWorks® software to implement industry-first steel turning concept ~

Machining solutions leader Sandvik Coromant has announced its partnership with global technology company HCL Technologies, to integrate its PrimeTurning™ technology into HCL CAMWorks software. The new partnership allows users of HCL CAMWorks to efficiently and securely plan PrimeTurning™ operations and maximise machining productivity.

The PrimeTurning™ methodology and supporting tools provide manufacturers with the industry’s first true ‘all-directional turning’ solution. Unlike conventional turning operations, which have remained largely unchanged for decades, PrimeTurning™ allows machine shops to complete longitudinal (forward and back), facing and profiling operations with a single tool.

Using two innovative and multipurpose tools, CoroTurn® Prime A-type and B-type, PrimeTurning™ is proven to deliver greater efficiency and productivity results compared to conventional turning. HCL provides information technology services to various sectors of industry and offers a range of product solutions, such as its computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software, HCL CAMWorks. The platform is a feature-based CAM software that helps to increase productivity with adaptable automation tools, to optimize CNC code for easy implementation and to help users set up proper parameters and variables to secure maximum output.

HCL CAMWorks facilitates associative machining, which ensures changes to designs are always reflected in the toolpath. It also eliminates common time constraints with file transfers and gives users the ability to work with multiple platforms.

As part of the new partnership, HCL CAMWorks has integrated PrimeTurning™ technology into its software products. “Partnering with HCL CAMWorks is vital to ensuring customer satisfaction and helping them to improve efficiency” said Marko Stugbäck, Product Manager for Digital Machining Business at Sandvik Coromant.

“This new partnership means that our mutual customers can enjoy the benefits of our technology through an integrated channel, which makes the programming of machining operations more efficient and easier to manage. For instance, PrimeTurning™ can deliver a 50 per cent productivity increase, turning flexibility in all directions and greater machine utilization, reducing time set up and tool changes,” continued Stugbäck.

“HCL CAMWorks software is not only vital to machining operations like that of turning methods, but it also plays a major role in helping the wider manufacturing sector adapt to Industry 4.0. With this partnership, we aim to bring more value to end users and equip them with the tools needed for manufacturing in a digitalised world.”

For more information about PrimeTurning™, visit www.sandvik.coromant.com/primeturning/, or to learn more about more about HCL CAMWorks, visit www.camworks.com.

Sandvik Coromant

Part of global industrial engineering group Sandvik, Sandvik Coromant is at the forefront of manufacturing tools, machining solutions and knowledge that drive industry standards and innovations demanded by the metalworking industry now and into the next industrial era. Educational support, extensive R&D investment and strong customer partnerships ensure the development of machining technologies that change, lead and drive the future of manufacturing. Sandvik Coromant owns over 3100 patents worldwide, employs over 7,600 staff, and is represented in 150 countries.

For more information visit www.sandvik.coromant.com

Sandvik Coromant has found an interesting and inspiring way to use its automotive expertise to support a good cause; by sponsoring three teams comprising apprentices and graduates from the UK’s Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) who plan to drive classic British Minis across Italy to raise money for charity. As well as sponsorship of the MTC entries in this year’s ‘Italian Job’ Mini car rally, Sandvik Coromant will also provide support to the MTC as it renovates and restores the vehicles - one of which dates back to 1966 – for the event.

Now in its 25^th year, the Italian Job Mini car rally involves driving Minis and other cars featured in the 1969 Michael Caine movie across Italy to raise funds for children’s charities. This year the rally’s nominated charity is ‘Variety’ and the route will see hundreds of cars drive from Turin to Trento, taking in the mountain roads of Piedmont and Trentino and including a drive on the world-famous Monza circuit.

The MTC is entering three original British Minis into the seven-day rally. Once they have been prepared the Minis will leave the MTC’s home in Coventry on 21^st October and then drive across France into Italy, reaching Turin in time for the start of the rally on 23^rd October.

Painted red, white and blue respectively, the cars are ‘Mike’, built in 1981, Tango’, from 1966, and ‘Charlie’, who rolled off the Mini production line in1992. Each vehicle is currently being restored and repaired using the Centre’s facilities, which includes some of the latest Sandvik Coromant metal cutting tools.

Sandvik Coromant is a leading provider of cutting tools and tooling systems that deliver the high levels of accuracy, productivity and security needed for machining the diverse mix of materials used in modern vehicles. The company partners with a wide variety of automotive manufacturers and suppliers in the proactive development of innovative solutions that address the technical and commercial challenges of manufacturing components for next-generation engines, transmissions, and other vehicle applications and subsystems.

A Tier One industrial member of the MTC since 2011, Sandvik Coromant works closely with the MTC in line with its commitment to developing new machining solutions and sharing knowledge that will help manufacturers address future engineering challenges. This commitment and cooperation also extends to support for graduate and apprentice training and sponsorship schemes and other initiatives designed to address the ‘skills gap’ by attracting, encouraging and nurturing new engineering talent.

Commenting on its sponsorship of the MTC rally entry, Howard Meachin, senior manager – Engineering at Sandvik Coromant, says: “Support of the UK MTC is an important part of our commitment to the advancement of innovative manufacturing techniques across a variety of industries, including the automotive sector. Sponsoring the MTC rally entries and offering our technology and services to help with the restoration of the vehicles is an opportunity to highlight this commitment and our strong relationship with the MTC while helping the Centre to raise money for a great cause.”

About Sandvik Coromant

Sandvik Coromant is a global leading supplier of cutting tools, tooling solutions and know-how to the metalworking industry. With extensive investments in research and development we create unique innovations and set new productivity standards together with our customers. These include the world's major automotive, aerospace and energy industries. Sandvik Coromant has 8000 employees and is represented in 130 countries. We are part of the business area Sandvik Machining Solutions within the global industrial group Sandvik.

For more information visit the website at www.sandvik.coromant.com.

About the Manufacturing Technology Centre

The MTC opened in 2011 and was founded by the University of Birmingham, Loughborough University, the University of Nottingham and TWI Ltd. The MTC’s industrial members include some of the UK’s major global manufacturers and SMEs.

The MTC aims to provide a competitive environment to bridge the gap between university-based research and the development of innovative manufacturing solutions, in line with the Government’s manufacturing strategy. The MTC is part the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by the Technology Strategy Board.

For more information visit the website at www.the-mtc.org