Special Inserts – Bespoke Carbide Forms
At GTS we supply cutting tool solutions to create a partnership with our customers to achieve cost savings, quality improvements, longer tool life options and higher production outputs, by manufacturing bespoke Carbide special shape form inserts.
GTS offers custom-made indexable inserts, profile tools and tool holders according to your individual requirements. It does not matter if a pattern or a drawing is available – we deliver custom inserts and profile tools customized according to your wishes.
New Design and Process improvements
- Initial Meetings to obtain customer Criteria requirements for evaluation and terms of reference.
- Create Customer and GTS design profiles.
- Generate proposals for required improvements along with design drawings for customer evaluation and suitability.
- Manufacture a trial quantity and conduct trials within customers production environment to prove and evaluate backed up by ongoing improvements.
- Implement successful improvements and processes into full production for the mutual benefit of the customer and GTS.
- Maintain if required ongoing support for further production improvements.
Existing Special shape and Form insert Users for any materials
- Evaluate and quote existing tools and inserts to provide a more cost effective solution for supply.
- Work with you (customer) for ongoing improvements.
- Maintain an on-going on time supply of special inserts with a solution that suits our customer. IE Consignments, schedules or we can work within any integrated supply or single source system that you may have in place.
Independent of the system, we offer customized special profile plates:
- in HSS, carbide or cermet
- in PCD or CBN equipped
- with innovative coatings (diamond coating, TIN, TiCN, TiAlN, TiC …)
- as special indexable inserts for internal and external machining
- The tailor-made inserts from GTS enable machining tasks that are not possible with ISO indexable inserts.
GTS offers custom-made indexable inserts, profile tools and tool holders according to your individual requirements. The special indexable inserts are produced exactly to customer-specific requirements. It does not matter if a pattern or a drawing is available – we deliver custom inserts and profile tools customized according to your wishes.
We offer Inserts PCD or CBN brazed or with technologically innovative modern coatings.
Often we work with customers to provide a service with our inserts to regrind/refurbish any inserts and tool holders that get damaged during machining operations and we can even buy your scrap carbide tooling.