Diamond and CBN cutting tools are powerful weapons, but when and how should they be used? Two things everyone knows about diamonds: they’re very hard and they’re very expensive. And so it is with polycrystalline diamond (PCD) as well as cubic boron nitride (CBN) cutting tools. They’re hard enough to cut extremely difficult-to-machine materials—but at a cost that has kept them as a tool of last resort in most cases, used only when there is no better, cheaper, solution.
Veranese Promoted to CEO of AMI
With the continued growth and evolution of Advanced Manufacturing International, Inc. (AMI), the