Project: Development of ceramic cutting tools based on a hybrid FAST/SPS manufacturing process

The main objective of the project is to manufacture top-grade indexable ceramic cutting tools for the machining of hard materials (hardened steel, nickel-based alloys). The main challenges of the project are: i) Use of hybrid FAST/SPS equipment for the manufacturing of industrial scale blanks made of an electroconductive ceramic. It will be also performed the design and manufacturing of powder conditioning systems (debinding furnaces, powder handling systems and blanks preparation) for industrial scale SPS equipments. ii) Design and post-processing of these blanks to produce the cutting-tool by means of advanced machining techniques (EDM, ultrasonic machining, laser machining) that will introduce radical cost-effective processing times for cutting tool finishing. Results of the project will be validated in service conditions and compared with those corresponding to current commercial products.

Acronym	Ceratool
Duration	01/10/2013 - 30/09/2016
Project Topic	Adaptive manufacturing technologies: processes for removing, joining, adding, forming, consolidating, assembling
Network	MANUNET II
Call	MANUNET Call 2013

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Nanoker research	Coordinator	Spain
2	Shuton S.A.	Partner	Spain
3	Industrias Mail S.A.	Partner	Spain
4	Termolab, Fornos Electricos Lda.	Partner	Portugal