Parting and Grooving

Parting and grooving are critical and often challenging operations in cylindrical part production, demanding precision, stability, and efficient chip control to achieve desired component quality and optimize cycle times. Duracarb’s D-Cut program offers a comprehensive suite of smart solutions for an extensive range of grooving and parting applications, integrating cutting-edge features designed to overcome these challenges:

• Economical Twin-Edged Inserts:
  Our inserts feature two usable cutting edges, maximizing tool life and significantly reducing tooling costs per component, while maintaining high stability and excellent repeatability.

• Advanced Moulded Chip-Breaker Geometries:
  Specialized chip-breaker designs are integral to our inserts, ensuring optimal chip formation and evacuation. This minimizes chip jamming, improves surface finish, and extends tool life, especially in sticky or long-chipping materials.

• Precision Alignment and Firm Holding:
  The unique top and bottom prism design on our inserts, coupled with a highly rigid seating and strong, secure clamping mechanism in the tool holder, guarantees accurate alignment and exceptional stability. This robust setup effectively counteracts cutting forces and vibrations, crucial for maintaining tight tolerances and achieving superior surface quality.

• Simple, Accurate, and Rapid Indexing:
  The intuitive design of our system allows for quick, accurate, and repeatable indexing of inserts, significantly reducing setup times and minimizing production downtime.

• Stable Support Against Side Forces:
  Our tool holders are engineered with enhanced rigidity to provide stable support against radial and axial forces, ensuring consistent performance and preventing tool deflection, particularly during deep grooving or heavy parting cuts.

• Minimized Spare Parts & Standard Dimensions:
  By designing for interchangeability and utilizing standard shank dimensions, the D-Cut program helps streamline inventory, reducing the need for a wide array of specialized spare parts.

• Versatile Application Range:
  The D-Cut program offers the smartest solutions for a diverse set of applications, including:

• • • Deep Grooving
    • Parting Off
    • Shallow Grooving
    • Recessing
    • Undercutting
    • Profiling (where applicable)

• Optimized Grades and Coatings:
  Duracarb offers a selection of advanced carbide grades with state-of-the-art CVD and PVD coatings, specifically formulated to provide superior wear resistance, toughness, and thermal stability across a broad spectrum of workpiece materials, from various steels and stainless steels to cast irons and high-temperature alloys.

• Internal Coolant Delivery (where applicable):
  Recognizing the importance of efficient cooling and chip evacuation in narrow grooves, Duracarb’s tooling designs incorporate optimized coolant channels to deliver coolant precisely to the cutting edge, further enhancing chip control, extending tool life, and improving part quality.

Duracarb is continuously working on designing and upgrading new products. Every new product is intended to provide the highest productivity level, while keeping customer costs low and ultimately enhancing their overall profitability.