Jacob Harpaz, CEO of ISCAR and president of the IMC Group, excitedly pitched the new products to more than 500 employees, distributors and members of the media during a day-long educational session at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, which featured a dance troupe during intermissions.
Harpaz said the company is driven by a desire to be first in the market with new products. He noted that the company continued to invest in research and development throughout the recession, a move that enabled ISCAR to remain competitive with new products as the economy started to lift.
ISCAR sees growth potential in the heavy-duty market, holemaking and by offering innovative improvements to the tool life and the efficiency of its existing products. Many of the improvements, Harpaz said, reflect ISCAR’s commitment to helping its customers reduce costs on an on-going basis. “We are not talking about one time,” he said.
New Systems for Cleaning Coolant
Machine downtime in the factory costs manufacturers dearly with lost production time. With its new mobile fluid recycling system introduced at IMTS, Eriez Hydroflow (Erie, PA), aims to boost manufacturers’ bottom line by reducing unnecessary machine tool downtime and improving machine coolant recovery.
“The new flute design on the Emuge NPT taps allows for improved chip flow and chip clearance, which results in lon- ger tap life than conventional pipe taps that often prematurely fail due to severe chipping of the cutting teeth or total break- age due to chip clogging,” said Mark Hatch, product director, Threads and Taps at Emuge.
ISCAR’s Product Onslaught
ISCAR (Arlington, TX) announced the biggest new product lineup in its 60-year history—a wide range of innovative and problem-solving products that are branded “IQ” as part of a post-recession marketing campaign. For example, ISCAR will begin offering the Dove IQ Turn, Dove IQ Drill, Dove IQ Mill and Dove IQ Grip as part of the “High QLine - Machining Intel- ligently” product launch.
The new SumpDoc from Eriez Hydroflow is a mobile inline fluid reclamation system that includes sump clean- ing and filtration in a portable system that uses its own propulsion system to move the unit between machine tools in the factory.
“The number one goal is keeping machine tools in production,” says Barry Nehls, Eriez Hydroflow general manager. “Some people have referred to this as ‘dialysis for machine tools.’”
This article was compiled by ME Media’s Senior Editors James Lorincz, Patrick Waurzyniak, James Sawyer, Michael Anderson and Editor in Chief Sarah A. Webster. SME’s Senior Editor for Journals and Technical Papers Ellen Kehoe also contributed.