High-Performance, Solid-Ceramic End Mills

A line of high-performance solid-ceramic end mills—XSYTIN-360—combine phase-toughened XSYTIN-1 substrate with a novel cutting geometry that offers ten times higher productivity and significant cost savings. The strength of the material allows users to apply chip loads similar to solid-carbide end mills with higher speeds common to ceramic machining. These ceramic end mills provide customers with significant increases in productivity over current solid-carbide or ceramic products.

XSYTIN-1, introduced in 2016, was engineered to machine a wider variety of materials than any other ceramic in the industry. The structure of this phase-toughened ceramic exhibits high wear-resistance and outstanding thermal-shock resistance, which makes the XSYTIN-360 end mills highly predictable, versatile, high-performance products.

XSYTIN-360 end mills have shown the highest material removal rates and resulted in increased productivity on a wide range of materials. These end mills are proven to be extremely effective when machining a variety of different materials, including high-temperature alloys; 3D-printed, sintered high-temperature alloys; hardened steels; ductile cast irons; and compacted graphite iron (CGI.) In hardened steels specifically, the tool life of XSYTIN-360 end mills has proven to be equal to high-performance carbide end mills when run at high-end speeds (11,460 RPM), while also removing over 73 in³ (over 1,200 cm³) of material.

Well suited to machining materials in the aerospace, automotive, die-and-mold, and power generation industries, XSYTIN-360 inch and metric end mills are available now.