Gewefa UK Ltdis making its Southern Manufacturing debut on stand P7 (www.gewefa.co.uk) .

A leading developer and manufacturer of tool-holding solutions, it also offers a comprehensive range of spindle nose tooling, driven tools, speeders and angle heads, heat-shrink clamping and spindle-monitoring equipment — plus a
particularly comprehensive range of collets — from companies such as EWS, Pibomulti, OTT-Jakob, Nann and Rineck.

The products on display at the event will include Gewefa’s Securlok universal tool-clamping solution with the Venturi coolant system, and the Grindtec zero-run-out tool-holder.

Securlok has been designed primarily for aerospace applications where the arduous precision machining of ‘challenging’ materials is becoming increasingly commonplace.

Meanwhile, the Grindtec hydro chuck extends the range of standard and special-purpose hydraulic tool-holders into applications for bespoke tool-grinding machines.

A key feature is an adjustment mechanism that allows the run out at the tip of the clamped cutter to be set to a zero.

This is achieved by adjusting three screws located in a ring fitted around the tool-holder body. Also featured will be Gewefa’s recently introduced HydroPin single-point boring bar tool-holder.

This uses the proven tool grip features of a hydraulic chuck with the added advantage of guaranteeing fixed orientation when positioning the bar.