Keyword: Aluminum

With the publication of the updated RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU on December 12, 2025, the European Union has formally confirmed the gradual ban on lead as an alloying component in electrical and electronic applications.

Horn has expanded its PKD portfolio and offers milling tools that enable economical machining with geometries specifically developed for aluminum.

As a manufacturer of semi-finished products made of aluminum, EURAL GNUTTI SPA has developed an aluminum alloy that ensures both high mechanical properties and optimal chip formation.

The special tool experts from Müller Precision Tools in Sien, Rhineland-Palatinate, have developed specific tool configurations for every application that are precisely tailored to the aluminum alloy to be machined. Thanks to tool recycling, also with reduced CO2 emissions.

Jakob Behr Maschinenfabrik GmbH requires the highest precision for its telescopic components made of aluminum. With milling cutters from INGERSOLL and a Hermle C 62 U MT machining center, the medium-sized contract manufacturing company masters this task.

Kyocera Corporation has announced the market launch and sales start of the MD90 end mill with the closest pitch. A new milling tool specifically designed for machining aluminum parts.

The machining of aluminum presents machinists with a number of challenges: long, sticky chips, high heat input, vibrations, oscillations, and weld build-up can lead to damage...

Schabmüller relies on aluminum expertise from MAPAL

Festo was able to significantly improve the production of threads in lead-free aluminum alloys using thread cutting tools from JBO. Optimized geometries and coatings enable longer tool life during thread cutting.

The new PKD milling program from Paul Horn GmbH, focusing on productive and process-safe machining of aluminum, includes a wide range of standard and special tools from end mills to complex and modular combination tools.

In the production of its carbide drills for CFRP-Alu machining, Scheinecker GmbH based in Steinhaus near Wels, Upper Austria, relies on BALDIA COMPOSITE DC, a diamond coating from its long-standing partner Oerlikon Balzers.

Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme presents the 'BoneCrusher', a tool for dry machining of aluminum extrusion profiles that revolutionizes processes in the processing of these profiles.

ISCAR, together with its project partners OpenMind and the Regofix Group, has developed a component at the TechCenter in Ettlingen that meets all the requirements of the semiconductor industry.

MAPAL has also transferred its processing expertise in the series production of aluminum components for the automotive industry to the manufacturing of focus components for pneumatics. Cycle time and quality at high quantities are crucial here.