Dormer Pramet company News and Trends items

The new milling grades - M4303 and M4310 - provide durability and reliability in semi-finishing and finishing applications. Each is designed for high speed milling for the die and mold segment, offering consistent wear and longer tool life. An ultra-thin PVD coating increases cutting edge toughness, while its substrate provides high hardness and strength of cutting e...

The Force M assortment of drills provide a high level of productivity consistently across a diverse variety of machines and conditions. This makes them ideal for general engineering and sub-contract environments. Their introduction within the company’s Dormer range, follows the recent launch of the Force X drilling family for use in a wide range of materials. All...

The launch features an assortment of CNHX05 double-sided inserts, with up to four cutting edges. Its unique patented wiper edges generate a high-quality surface finish, resulting in reduced machining time in both shoulder and face milling applications. This is supported by a range of SCN05C cutters for productive copy milling of steels, hardened steels and cast irons....

Incorporating interactive technology with several embedded videos, users are taken on a 360-degree walk-through of the modern facility in Sumperk. It offers the chance to view an extensive range of round and indexable tooling, grouped by ISO material suitability. Additional information, including catalog pages and key features and benefits, is just a click away. ...

The S2 assortment includes a range of neck options for deep milling and multi-flute designs to support numerous applications in tough steels, titanium and nickel. Its differential pitch cutters (S260, S262, S264), for example, reduce chatter and offer fewer tool offset adjustments, providing effective chip removal at high feed rates. The trio of cutters - availab...

Consisting of three specific cutters – Multiside AD, Multiside SC and Multiside SD – the program covers a comprehensive variety of operations, including shoulder milling, slot milling, copy milling and face milling, through to progressive plunging and roughing. A key feature of the Multiside range, which is part of the company’s Pramet assortment, is its patented Side...

Global manufacturer Dormer Pramet tasks its product management and development department with creating new tools every year. A member of the team is product and development engineer Jan Bittner. In January 2015, Jan joined Dormer Pramet and became part of the company’s project to develop an assortment of high feed milling tools. Almost three years later, a new range ...

With a year on year increase of 2.6 per cent, the railway industry is enjoying sustainable growth and expected to be worth more than 180billion EUROS by 2020. An increasing demand for passenger and freight rail services is seeing a rapid growth in infrastructure investment around the world. Global tooling manufacturer Dormer Pramet has, for many years, supported the ...

To support the rapid expansion at its Mexico facility, the team at KUKA Robotics has appointed Dormer Pramet as its primary cutting tools supplier over the next three years. Working with local distributor CC Tools, Dormer Pramet will provide more than 150 standard round tools, special end mills and reamers, as well as indexable inserts and cutters. KUKA Robotics is an...

Milling cutters, for example, which can support roughing to finishing applications in all materials are not uncommon in the marketplace. The challenge today is to achieve versatility, while also meeting the dimensional and finish demands that were once only placed on tools designed for a specific operation and material type. Dormer Pramet’s Econ LN is a highly co...

Available in 20 languages, the comprehensive publication covers Dormer Pramet’s round tools assortment and features 50 new products since the last edition. Latest additions include the new Force X and Hydra carbide drills and a complete program of rotary burrs. Dormer’s range of threading tools has also expanded significantly with new Shark Line taps, forming taps, ...

The increase is supported by a steady demand from key segments, such as automotive and construction, as well as heavy electrical and industrial equipment. Ricky Payling, product strategy manager for round tools at Dormer Pramet, looks at why HSS remains a popular option. Despite the growing competition from solid carbide, HSS continues to be popular with manufactur...

With its unique combination of substrate, coatings and design features, the popular application-based range offers high levels of process security and performance across a range of engineering materials. Each tap features a color ring on the tool shank denoting material suitability, promoting quick and easy tool selection. The latest additions are to its yellow ri...

Suitable for finishing to roughing applications, even in unfavorable conditions, the new M8330 provides a highly reliable and versatile option when machining either with or without coolant in steels and cast iron. It is also suitable for stainless steel, super alloys and hardened steels. The M8330 replaces the existing 8230 grade and features a nano-layered PVD coati...

The versatile Pramet SBN10 cutters are suitable for copy milling, ramping, helical interpolation, slotting and plunging. Its unique pocket design can also carry inserts for shoulder and face milling, offering a complete package for, in particular, mold and die applications, from roughing to finishing. A range of diameters are available from 16 - 42 mm and multiple typ...

Dormer Pramet’s Experience Center is a major investment by the company that aims to provide expertise, training, research and development and equipment to further increase the scope and performance of its wide assortment of cutting tools. The Experience Center, or XP Center for short, is located at Dormer Pramet’s indexable production unit (PU) in Šumperk, Czech Rep...

This year’s event in Hannover (Sept 18-23) perfectly illustrated just how global the metalworking show is, with visitors from more than 45 countries welcomed to the Dormer Pramet stand in Hall 3. It was no surprise that the largest contingent came from Germany. Their numbers were swelled by more than 420 technical students who visited EMO after being invited by Dorme...

The company has a global reputation for providing high quality cutting tools that offer consistent levels of performance and reliability in hole-making, milling, turning and threading applications. Covering solid to indexable, high speed steel to solid carbide and general purpose to application specific tooling, Dormer Pramet’s ‘Product Zone’ at EMO will feature too...

Covering maintenance departments and fabrication workshops to international suppliers for the railway, automotive and aerospace industries, Dormer Pramet’s product program is one of the widest in the market. A particular focus at EMO 2017 (18 – 23 September) in Hannover will be the company’s offer for the heavy engineering industry. An example of Dormer Pramet’s g...

The company has two global product brands: Dormer, featuring a wide assortment of HSS and solid carbide round tools for drilling, milling and threading applications; and Pramet, covering a variety of indexable tools for turning, milling and hole-making. The new Dormer logo brings it in line with the company’s global identity, creates a closer connection between the t...

It is the first time the company will exhibit at EMO in Germany following the merger of round tools manufacturer Dormer Tools and indexable specialist Pramet Tools in 2014. Although still a relatively new entity, Dormer Pramet’s product brands can boast more than 150 years’ collective experience in specialized cutting tool manufacture. During this time, both have bui...

The negative NRM turning chip breaker is for roughing and semi-roughing of stainless steel and low alloy steel. Launched under the company’s Pramet brand, NRM is available for both double-sided and large single-sided inserts. It has been designed for continuous and mass levels of production, offering consistent performance and high feeds. However, the NRM has excellen...

The R970 head has been added to the existing Hydra program, which already includes types for steel (R950) and stainless steel (R960). All three heads are suitable for use on the existing range of High Speed Steel drill bodies. A key feature of the Dormer branded range is that it offers easy and quick head changes, without the need to remove the body from the machine,...

Expanding the company’s comprehensive range of milling cutters, the new addition adds an adaptable option to support a wide range of insert shapes and operations from roughing to finishing. The new SOD05 cutter, developed under the Pramet brand, reduces tool change-over time and inventory costs with its universal pocket capable of carrying octagonal, round and square...

Force X is the new family name given to the Dormer range of drills, which replaces its MPX assortment. All existing product codes have been retained to ensure a smooth transition, but the incoming drills have received a significant upgrade, including new geometry, corner design and edge preparation. The improvements apply to the 3xD R457 and R458 and the 5xD R453...

The 2017 indexable publication is the company’s largest in its history, containing more than 1,000 pages of products and machining advice for a wide range of applications. It is the first regular edition where all Pramet turning, milling and hole-making tools have been presented together in one printed, multi-lingual publication, for numerous countries. In total...

Designed primarily for smartphones, the “calculators’ app” will help determine a variety of data on popular operations including milling, turning, drilling, threading and boring. By entering different job settings including tool diameter and material type the user can quickly and easily establish the optimum conditions for an efficient machining process. A wide range...

Stefan, previously the company’s Global Sales Director, takes over from Fabrizio Resmini, who retires as of 1 January 2017. Having worked for the Sandvik Group for the last 20 years, Stefan has held various senior positions after initially joining Dormer as technical specialist. In 2007, he became managing director of Dormer Italy, before moving into the company’s g...

The 350-page publication details the company’s comprehensive range of tool holders, which covers the most popular spindle taper specifications. This includes DIN 69871, MAS 403 BT, DIN 2080, HSK-A, VDI and MORSE. The easy to follow catalog features simple menus and icons to support navigation and cross reference between different tooling systems, adapters, spare part...

The new chip breakers – developed under the company’s Pramet brand - target finishing and medium to roughing turning operations in steel and cast iron, high temperature alloys and stainless steel. Firstly, the NF1 and NF2 positive chip breakers support turning applications in stainless steel. The balanced shape of these new inserts offers excellent chip control, with ...

Offering a good quality cost-effective option, the new taps will be of particular interest to customers who work with motors, pumps, engines and valves within various industry segments, including automotive, aerospace, oil and gas. Suitable for use in hand held or portable machines, the versatile taps – developed under the company’s Dormer brand - are manufactured fr...

The new spot weld drills have been specifically designed for drilling out spot welds to release steel panels and sheets. A number of standard sizes are available to suit common spot welds found in the automotive and trailer repair industry. Manufactured from high speed cobalt (HSS-E), the A723 drill, which has a bronze surface finish, offers high hot hardness to reta...

The TNGX10 double-sided triangular inserts – launched under the company’s Pramet brand - offers depth of cut up to 5mm and feature six cutting edges for excellent economy and low machining costs. A wide range of cutters are available with the new assortment, from 18mm up to 80mm, and with a high number of teeth available - even for small diameters - the cutters provi...

The Dormer forming taps are a dependable option when creating threads, offering both dynamic strength and high dimensional accuracy. The comprehensive program now includes designs and thread forms for the majority of applications and materials across all major industry segments. The five new lines of forming taps, added as part of the company’s November 2016 launch, o...

Rotary, also known as solid round tools, forms one entire piece made up of the cutting edge and shank. It is typically associated with drilling, threading and milling applications. Indexable tools are predominantly made of inserts or tips, where the cutting edge is a replaceable shaped piece which is welded or clamped on to a tool body. These are generally used for ...

Increasing reliability through new tools, materials and machining techniques, as well as supporting productive and cost effective maintenance of existing infrastructure, is crucial. The railway segment has been a focus for Dormer Pramet for many years, with the company offering customers a wide range of cutting tools to help with both production and maintenance. Tomá...