With its new “GARANT Master Alu”, the Hoffmann Group is launching a completely redeveloped line of solid carbide milling cutters, designed for high-performance cutting of aluminium.
As such, customers can now also benefit from the particular performance, process reliability and efficiency of the top-class “GARANT Master” cutters when machining aluminium, as well. This range was established in 2015 with the introduction of the “GARANT Master Steel” solid carbide milling cutter and includes high-performance milling cutters for steel, stainless steel, titanium and aluminium, as well as various high-performance drills.
The new “GARANT Master Alu” line of solid carbide milling cutters has been designed to maximise precision and cope with the most stringent high-performance cutting requirements. The range has tools to handle any application: a balanced single-cutter milling cutter, a finishing cutter, a roughing end mill with knuckle profile (SlotMachine) and a pocket milling cutter (PickPocket) – the latter also comes as a torus cutter.
The single-cutter “GARANT Master Alu solid carbide milling cutter” is precision balanced using a newly developed process, in order to optimise chip evacuation and ensure a smooth cutting action. With a balancing quality of G 1.8, it achieves optimum performance figures at high speeds. In contrast, the “GARANT Master Alu PickPocket” pocket milling cutter achieves maximum feed rates, as does the “GARANT Master Alu SlotMachine” roughing end mill with knuckle profile, which was designed specifically for slot milling. Wet machining is also required in most cases, which is why the tools are also optionally available with through-coolant. What’s more, as a result of their patented end face geometry, the pocket milling cutter and the roughing end mill with knuckle profile aren’t just able to be used for ramping and helix milling, they can even handle plunging (drilling).
To make the process more stable, the tools from the new “GARANT Master Alu” milling cutter line also feature the latest generation of high-quality DLC coating as per the ISO code in green. The single-cutter milling cutter and the PickPocket pocket milling cutter are also optionally available without the coating.
