Stefan Steenstrup has been appointed President and CEO of Seco as of October 1, 2021, succeeding Fredrik Vejgården who decided to leave Seco to start his own business.

Seco already has well-established methods for life cycle analysis of its own products and for mapping of production processes as part of its aim to reduce the company’s climate impact. The next step is to also offer to help reduce customers’ carbon footprint.

When Jan Gravningsbråten came up with an idea for how to reduce waste in the tool production process, little did he realize the potential effect it could have on the Seco business. Several years later, his idea has the ability to track ten billion tools that in turn can generate huge amount of insight into how our products are used.

In an effort to become more sustainable in its machining practices, Seco Tools has partnered with Fusion Coolant Systems (Fusion), which offers an environmentally-friendly coolant technology that can lower overall carbon footprint while increasing overall performance. Both companies have a goal to make machining easier and more effective for manufacturing leaders and engineers, while maintaining environmental awareness, making this partnership a perfect match.

Seco Tools is uniquely placed to make a strong contribution to the circular economy, which prioritizes separating economic activity from the consumption of finite resources and designing ways to remove waste from our system of economic activity.

For the first time ever, on Wednesday, 21st April and Thursday, 22nd April, the annual Inspiration through Innovation event, hosted by Seco Tools and industry partners, will focus on precision manufacturing in the Medical industry.

From before the Industrial Revolution until the present day, manufacturers have shared common goals: producing a certain number of parts, in a certain amount of time, at a certain cost. Manufacturing processes evolved from craft-made single-item methods to mass production lines and output of increasingly greater numbers of identical parts: a high-volume/low product mix (HVLM) scenario. Most recently, digital technology in programming, machine tool controls and workpiece handling systems are facilitating a manufacturing environment known as Industry 4.0 that enables cost-efficient manufacture of highly diverse parts in small batches: high-mix/low-volume (HMLV) production.

Coolant-through tooling components and connectors that interfere with grooving, parting off and other turning operations become a thing of the past with the new additions to JETI (Jetstream Integrated) tooling from Seco Tools. Expansions to the range of MDT (Multi-Directional Turning), X4 (grooving and parting off) and 150.10 (parting-off) tool holders offer interference-free internal coolant capabilities and the choice to switch the underside stream channel on and off as the application requires.

The new Seco Tools Double Quattromill^® 14 cutter allows shops with lower horsepower machines to maximize their face milling operations. The face milling cutter uses double sided inserts with 8 cutting edges for cost-effectiveness as well as for increased in depths of cut in roughing, semi finishing and finishing operations. Seco designed the Double Quattromill^® 14 as a smaller version of the company’s Double Quattromill^® 22, which is ideal for large machines with higher horsepower and torque capabilities.

Seco Tools introduces its new Power Milling Chucks, with levels of holding power and transmittable torque rivalling those of hydraulic and shrinkfit holder types for maximized milling performance. Power Milling Chucks deliver enhanced application flexibility and cost effectiveness while they allow shops to reduce tooling inventories.