Who’s Smith & Company’s Top Quality Tooling Performance Partner

When you think of HAIMER what’s the first thing that springs to mind? High quality tool holders? Well that’s what most people think but did you know HAIMER also make a comprehensive range of top quality solid carbide end mills. MTDCNC’s Tony Gunn is at Smith & Company with Robert Smith discussing just how good these end mills are. A few months ago, as recommended by their tooling supplier, Smith’s decided to try a HAIMER 12mm solid carbide end mill, cutting aluminium on their Hermle C 400 5 Axis Machining Centre. Two months on the HAIMER end mill is still running and producing the same stunning results it gave on day one. Used in conjunction with a HAIMER tool holder the combination are giving great feeds & speeds, tool life, surface finish and accuracy. Robert has been in the engineering business some 40 years and in that time has learnt some hard lessons, but says if you buy a good machine a good tool holder and a good tool those problems just disappear. With that in mind Smith’s Hermle 5 Axis mills and HAIMER tool holders and end mills have helped them produce better quality parts quicker with no headaches. As with most things in life, quality pays.