We understand that the life of tools is important – especially reliable life – to avoid time lost and excessive wear. However, more important than tool life is performance. Allowing them to work faster, harder, hotter and reaching higher metal removal rates (MRR) is where there’s scope to reduce the cost of goods. Especially when…
Milling cutters come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes, and styles! From end mills to roughing and finishing mills, each type of milling cutter is designed to be ideal for a specific application. Milling cutters may be designed to cut a specific shape or size of slot, to leave a certain desired finish on…
Prima Tooling’s fantastic range of high-quality PCD Slatwall Tooling (T-Slot) are custom designed for producing Slatwalls. We make every order bespoke to the specifications provided by the customer, meaning that you get the best possible fit! Slatwall is defined by its slats running the length of the panel, which adopt a T shape inside allowing…
Prima Tooling’s extensive ranges of high-quality milling cutters come in a wide variety of different shapes, sizes, and types. Our milling cutters are available in multiple different materials, including high-speed steel (HSS), solid tungsten carbide, and polycrystalline diamond (PCD). The various ranges of milling cutters we stock and supply are designed to be ideal for…
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals, along with ultra-strong metallic superalloys, can be amongst the most difficult materials in the world to drill. Unlike woods, foams, and soft composite materials, which can be tackled with most drills, drilling these metals requires a tool crafted from a much harder metal or metallic alloy. It is important to know…
There are countless different choices and options for cutting tools available on the market today. A huge variety of factors must be considered in order for you to choose the perfect tooling solution for your application. What material you’re working on, such as whether it is metal, plastic, timber, or composite, the functionality of the…
A threading tap is a unique type of drill that is specifically designed to carve a screw thread on the inside of a pre-drilled hole. All threading taps are designed to complete this simple task, but there is still a huge range of different sizes and styles, all designed to produce a slightly different result.…
Prima Tooling’s incredible range of PCD end mills are amongst the most effective and high-quality milling tools available on the market. PCD – polycrystalline diamond is manufactured by sintering together carefully selected diamond particles. This is done at a very high temperature and pressure in the presence of a solvent/catalyst metal. The results are an…
At Prima Tooling, our extensive collections of carbide drills are crafted from the finest quality tungsten carbide of an ultra-fine grain type. Tungsten carbide is one of the strongest materials on the planet, capable of cutting virtually all other materials on Earth. This makes carbide drills perfect for drilling ultra-hard materials, ferrous and nonferrous metals,…
At Prima Tooling, ultra-fine grain carbide end mills are created to an impeccable standard from high-quality tungsten carbide. Tungsten carbide is created by blending together tungsten and carbon, using cobalt as a binding material. The resultant alloy, tungsten carbide, is one of the strongest materials in the world. It also enjoys an incredibly high heat…
