ITC Signs Hanita Re-Grind Agreement

Industrial Tooling Corp (ITC) is delighted to announce that it has now signed an agreement with Kennametal that sees the Tamworth based cutting tool specialist appointed as an official re-grind facility for the Hanita brand of Kennametal round carbide tools.

ITC has been the UK’s primary distributor of solid carbide and HSS end-mills, cutters and drills produced by Hanita Metal Works Limited for over 15 years. The marquee brand of Hanita tools are manufactured from premium quality tungsten carbide and high-speed steel. The diverse Hanita product range delivers cutting tools specially adapted to meet the demands of advanced manufacturing processes and materials that are commonly used in the Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, Motorsport and Mould and Die industries.

The Hanita product offerings compliment ITC’s renowned series of cutting tools, enabling the round tool specialist to now provide industry with over 100,000 off-the-shelf cutting tools for immediate delivery. The Hanita brand is recognised for its product quality and all tools are manufactured to ISO: 9001, ISO: 14001 and OHSAS: 18001 certification standards. With such impeccable quality standards, Hanita is delighted to have found a distributor with a world class re-grind facility that can return its cutting tools to an ‘as new’ condition and maintain its quality standards.

ITC’s Managing Director, Mr Peter Graves comments: “This announcement recognises that we are the only UK facility that has access to the original Hanita end mill geometries. This enables us to return all Hanita end mills to an ‘as new’ condition. Our customers will be delighted with this announcement, as it now enables us to provide our full remit of customer services to Hanita users. Our re-grind service has grown considerably in recent years. This is credit to our investment in state-of-the-art technology that enables us to deliver consistently high quality levels.”

ITC has been providing a re-grind and recondition service for its customers for over 13 years, cost effectively returning customers HSS and solid carbide cutting tools to an ‘as new’ condition. This service goes beyond standard products with the highly skilled technical staff producing special tooling from blanks and providing the re-grind service on special and standard items. ITC's reconditioning service extends the life of tooling by returning it to its original geometry and if necessary re-coating, so in many instances the tools work better than new.

Just one look at the state-of-the-art grinding facility at ITC, is reason enough to see why Hanita has placed its trust in the ITC re-grind service. The company’s production facility now includes new manual and CNC machines from leading Swiss and German specialists including Schneeberger, Walter, Deckel and Rollomatic, with new machines set to be delivered imminently. ITC places such a high emphasis on quality; it is the only UK cutting tool manufacturer to have two Walter Heli tool check automatic measuring machines.