December 2015—7
The Star SU booth was a particular draw, highlighting a wide variety of gear manufacturing machinery for hobbing, grinding,
shaping and shaving as well as cutting tools including hobs, milling cutters, shaper cutters and shaving tools, among others. It also
provides tooling for Proflator scudding machines from the German Machine Tool Association (GMTA), which was co-located with
Star SU.
In addition to other machine models, Koepfer America
spotlighted a K160 "Repowered" CNC Gear Hobbing Machine—
the frst Fanuc re-control of that particular model (interior
shown on cover). The company also demonstrated its Model
200 gear hobber and featured its line of Helios Ra-Cut hobs,
providing excellent material removal rates with twice the
number of cutting faces in similar designs.