Ceratizit USA, part of Luxembourg-based Ceratizit Group, has developed an alternate approach to turning that it calls High Dynamic Turning (HDT), which, combined with the company's dynamic FreeTurn tooling system, uses a turn-mill center's B-axis milling spindle to perform the turning process. In contrast to conventional turning with an insert at a fixed angle of approach to the workpiece, this solution enables 360 degrees of freedom for the tool's approach, and the point of contact in the machine can be varied during machining. Ceratizit first showed the turning technology at a 2019 open house in Reutte, Austria, on an Emco Hyperturn 665 MCplus turn-mill. According to Dr. Uwe Schleinkofer, head of R&D cutting tools for Ceratizit Austria, HDT enables all traditional turning operations such as roughing, finishing, contour turning and face turning with just one tool.
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