Aluminium | Leitz

The processing of aluminium and non-ferrous metals repeatedly present manufacturers with requirements that need special solutions. Thin-walled profiles are likely to vibrate, whereas solid materials present completely different behavior during machining.

Drawing on its long experience in the professional machining of non-ferrous metals, Leitz continually develops its range of tools and is able to offer solutions for the many challenges in the machining of profiles, blocks, plates or sheet metal.

Thin or thick, coated or sheathed. The types of aluminium profiles are many and varied and to ensure the optimum machining of workpieces, the requirements on the tool solutions are just as varied.

Profile processing with circular sawblades

Leitz has an extensive range of circular sawblades for sawing aluminium and other non-ferrous metal profiles, be it cutting to length, cutting to size or mitre sawing, whether thin-walled, coated or uncoated profiles. The Leitz saw programme offers many advantages, including high cutting quality, low noise and reduced set-up times – always with the aim of keeping processing times and costs as low as possible.

Leitz circular sawblade fibre reinforced plastic profiles

Profile processing with shank cutters

For the cutting of aluminium and non-ferrous profiles, Leitz offers a wide range of tool solutions in its standard range, which are designed with the purpose of achieving perfect cutting results with minimum production times.

In order to keep the heat development (the friction of the cutting edge on the material) as low as possible, manufacturers have a choice. Either additional coolants and lubricants are needed, or tool designs with corresponding geometry, construction and cutting material are required. Leitz has specialized in so-called ‘dry machining’ and offers efficient and economically interesting tool solutions for sawing and cutting non-ferrous metals without coolant.

Dry machining with circular sawblades

Smooth cutting surfaces and edges, high feed rates, long tool life and energy-saving machining ensure that the circular sawblades from the Leitz sawing range are highly efficient, productive and economical in the processing of aluminium.

Dry processing with shank cutters

Leitz has designed special high-performance shank cutters with PCD cutting edges to machine aluminium plates. This provides significantly higher feed rates and better finish qualities than with comparable “cooled” tools.