MACH 2022 proved to be a big success for cutting tool manufacturer Guhring. The company demonstrated a complete range of products including threading, turning, drilling and milling tools — many of which received their UK exhibition premiere at the show and were demonstrated ‘live’ on a Grob five-axis machining centre.

Guhring gave a MACH show debut to the RF100 Sharp Series of high-performance end mills which visitors could see being put through their paces on the Grob machine. Designed to address the issue of machining soft, tough and high-alloyed materials that create an issue with swarf clearance, the new RF100 Sharp Series is Guhring’s most advanced solid carbide milling tool to date.

Alongside the Sharp was the Diver Series of end mills that Guhring recently extended for micromachining with the new RF100 Micro Diver. Also on display was the RF100 5-Speed and RF100 7-Speed solid carbide end mills. Developed for the machining tough materials, they are part of the highly dynamic Guhring Trochoidal Cutting (GTC) series.

As a world-leading manufacturer in the drilling and reaming arena, Guhring also had its holemaking ranges performing on the Grob machining centre at MACH. With many of its industry leading drilling lines undertaking ‘live cutting’ demonstrations, it was the RT 100T solid carbide spiral flute deep-hole drills that captured the imagination of engineers at the show.

Chris Weston, Guhring UK managing director, said: “Before MACH, expectations may have been somewhat subdued due to the unpredictable Covid-19 situation, but that dissipated on day one with a very high number of enquiries — and this continued throughout the week to give us our busiest MACH show ever.

“The enquiries we received were well balanced across our portfolio of products. We had technical engineers giving demonstrations of our vending solutions all week while the Grob G550 five-axis machine provided live demos of our deep hole drilling line and the new Sharp end mills to name a few. We have always alluded to the performance of our industry-leading lines that can achieve cutting parameters beyond alternate lines. This is especially true of our deep hole drilling range – but it wasn’t until engineers watched it on the Grob machine that they believed it.”

“It was the first time for Guhring to have a machining centre on the MACH stand to demonstrate products, and it worked extremely well. We had a crowd around the machine all week, paying close attention to the jaw-dropping performance of our tools.

We are also delighted to announce that our cooperation with Grob at MACH was just the first step in a long-term partnership that has now seen Guhring UK take the impressive five-axis machine that straddled both stands at MACH straight to the Guhring technical centre in Birmingham.

Mr Weston concluded: “Arriving at Guhring UK immediately after the show, the machine will cement our relationship and enable us to provide comprehensive demonstrations of our product lines on an extremely capable five-axis machining centre. It will also serve as a facility for Grob to invite its customers to undertake machining trials.”

Guhring engineers were also busy at MACH discussing the scope of special tooling solutions that can be designed, developed, manufactured and trialled at the Guhring facility in Birmingham. Guhring UK has a team of expert engineers that can create productivity, cost, inventory and cycle time savings for UK manufacturers.