Sandvik Coromant expand gear milling family

CoroMill® 176 now accommodates applications up to module 9The successful CoroMill® 176 range of full profile hobs for spur gear and helical gear milling has now been extended by Sandvik Coromant to incorporate larger module 9 applications. First introduced 18 months ago, CoroMill® 176 is an indexable insert hob that can reduce cutting time by an impressive 50 percent, largely through the application of cutting speeds up to four times higher than conventional high speed steel (HSS) cutters and a large number of effective inserts. The cutter offers a full-effective design compared to the