Sandvik Coromant
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Engineering |
| Headquarters | Sandviken, Sweden |
| Products | Tools for metal cutting, deep hole drilling, dies, milling, turning, machining. |
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Number of employees
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8,000 (2013) |
| Website | www.sandvik.coromant.com |
Sandvik Coromant is a Swedish company that supplies cutting tools and services to the metal cutting industry.
Sandvik Coromant is headquartered in Sandviken, Sweden and is represented in more than 130 countries with some 8,000 employees worldwide. It is part of the business area of Sandvik Machining Solutions, which is within the global industrial group Sandvik. (In 2012, Sandvik was named #58 on Forbes’ “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” list.)
The company began as a small, production unit for cemented carbide tools in Sandviken, Sweden when Wilhelm Haglund was assigned the job as manager of the unit in 1942. However, new innovations and manufacturing methods led to the establishment of a more industrialized unit in Gimo, Sweden in 1951. Today, Sandvik Coromant is a global company with production facilities connected worldwide to three distribution centers in the US, Europe and Asia.
Sandvik Coromant has received certification for international standards such as the ISO 26623 standard for tool holding systems as well as the ISO inserts, around which an industry-leading recycling program was created, and the ISO 13399 standard for simplifying the exchange of data for cutting tools between different systems such as, CAD, CAM, CAE, and PDM/EDM.
Sandvik Coromant invests extensively in R&D and has fully equipped research and development centers around the globe. Each of these Application Centers has a unique R&D focus on specific industry segments including aerospace, automotive, die & mold, and deep hole machining. In addition, Sandvik Coromant has worldwide R&D centers, nine product development centers and advanced centers for engineered solutions.
Sandvik Coromant produces a variety of milling tools for different applications, including:
The most notable of Sandvik Coromant’s milling line is the CoroMill.
Sandvik Coromant produces a variety of turning tools for various turning applications, including:
The most notable of Sandvik Coromant’s turning line is the CoroTurn.
Sandvik Coromant produces variety of drilling and tapping tools for a variety of hole making applications, including:
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