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Advanced Carbide Tooling Ltd, Hinckley, Leicestershire
Advanced Carbide Tooling is a highly specialised tungsten carbide tooling designer, distributor, manufacturer and exporter.
Our customer base covers aerospace and aero jet engine manufacturers and subcontractors, North Sea oil industry, medical and Formula One motor racing.
Advanced Carbide Tooling has built a reputation for providing high quality tooling and first class customer service. In order to compliment our Mircona core business ACT have designed, patented and manufactured Microcut and ACT 2.2 - its own carbide insert and high speed steel insert tooling and grooving systems.
Other selected carbide insert grooving systems have been added to our range: these include Jimmore Nine9, Combidex and Dieterle.
The Mircona range
Mircona are manufacturers of the world’s longest established range of parting-off and grooving toolholders with replaceable carbide inserts. The Mircona range is demonstrably the worlds strongest and most comprehensive tooling system with over 2,500 toolholders and more than 3,000 replaceable carbide inserts.
The toolholders are solidly built being machined out of solid bar and the small insert design allows the maximum amount of supporting steel to be deployed to ensure stability for the insert and its cutting edge.
This simple sole or single design concept of the Mircona parting–off and grooving tooling has enabled its development for every aspect of grooving tooling such as internal, external, axial / annular, circlip and “O”- ring and relief grooving.
Mircona designs have an inherent strength making them the standard grooving tooling in difficult to machine, work hardening alloys such as those used by the aerospace industry. These high temperature resistant alloys were originally developed to counter the problems associated within the “hot end” of the latest jet turbine engines. These space-age materials reduce the phenomenon of “creep” or “grain growth” caused by a combination of high temperature and high centrifugal forces when the engine “spools-up”. However these high technology alloys are particularly difficult to machine, especially for grooving tooling.
The ACT Group
Advanced Carbide Tooling is the main company of the ACT Group. The others are:-
AML (Advanced Micro Lubrication)
ACM (Advanced Chamfering Machines)
ACT (Advanced Corporate Training).
The Corporate Training Division delivers mentoring at director level to our customers and potential clients. This training covers management, sales management, marketing and professional salesmanship and is often tailored to our customer’s strengths and individual requirements. Initial “taster sessions” are supplied free of charge.
Keith London, Chairman
Advanced Carbide Tooling Ltd
7 Watling Close, Sketchley Meadows Business Park
Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 3EZ
T: 01455 234000
F: 01455 234022
E: Info@advancedcarbidetooling.co.uk
W: www.advancedcarbidetooling.co.uk
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