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TANGENTIAL MILLING OF Check out how this old concept is bringing new life to the slab milling process. In most die and mold shops, one of the biggest single chunks of machining time goes to slab milling, so speeding that operation exerts a lot of positive leverage on profitability and competitiveness.
![]() Tangential mills, now available in smaller sizes, improve roughing throughput and edge life on difficult small grooves and pockets. Just ask Riviera Tool Company (Grand Rapids, MI) a very progressive die and mold shop that runs 24/6 serving the automotive and truck-body market. Over the past year, the company has switched over to tangential milling for the rough and finish slabbing work, and raised throughput more than 40 percent. Tool life rose as well, while power consumption dropped.
Riviera does the slab milling with an assortment of Ingersoll tangential milling cutters – 4 in, 6 in, 8 in, 12 in and the new 1 in diameter cutters, the smallest tangential milling cutter available.
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