Sandvik Coromant Becomes DMG MORI Premium Partner
They are the only tooling manufacturer to be named a Premium Partner.
Posted: December 8, 2016
Cutting tool and tooling systems specialist Sandvik Coromant (Sandviken, Sweden) has signed an agreement to become a Premium Partner of DMG MORI (Bielefeld, Germany), a leading machine tool manufacturer. This partnership gives users of DMG MORI machine tools access to the turning, parting and grooving, threading, milling, drilling, boring, and reaming tools from Sandvik Coromant, as well as their tooling systems and extensive range of knowledge, industry solutions, and services.
Sandvik Coromant is the only tooling manufacturer to be named as a Premium Partner of DMG MORI. This deal will further strengthen the relationship between the two manufacturers on a global scale and benefit machine shops around the world will benefit from the combined knowledge and experience of the two market leaders. The two companies will work together on a wide-range of initiatives, including R&D and engineering, open house events, trade show appearances, technical seminars, website collaboration, and the DMG MORI Journal publication.
“This agreement confirms our position as one of our industry’s true premium and forward-looking companies,” stated Klas Forsström, the global president of Sandvik Coromant. “As we join forces with a leading machine tool builder, for example, on turnkey projects, we take an active role in advancing technology for the industry.” Sandvik Coromant will equip DMG MORI machines with a wide range of products, services, and know-how. For example, a customized start-up tool kit and service will be supplied with each NLX series universal lathe and NT turn-mill center in selected markets. On the CLX/CMX (previously Ecoline) entry-level machines and DMC V vertical machining centers, users will receive a defined tool kit and global service provision.
Evidence of the success of this collaboration between the two companies was seen recently when they partnered with Rota Metal, a distributor in Turkey, and their customer Polat Makina, a food technology company that was ready to make the switch from individual machining to multi-tasking machines. Sandvik Coromant recommended a complete new tooling package based on their Coromant Capto® modular quick-change tooling concept. The DMG MORI machines included an NTX 2000 with Capto C6 spindle, an NT 5400 with Capto C8 spindle, and an NT 6600 with Capto C8 spindle. Additional tools that were specified to help complete the switch included Silent Tools®, CoroTurn® HP, CoroCut® SL, CoroDrill® 860, CoroTap® 300, CoroChuck® 970, and CoroChuck 930.
These changes reduced overall machining time from 41.7 hours to 8.3 hours for a finished end product, an impressive 500 percent savings that helped ensure a rapid return on the company’s investment. “Sandvik Coromant did not just supply the tools,” noted Ibrahim Polat, the owner of Polat Makina. “They supplied the solution.”
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