Metal Milling

Metal milling involves surface treating the metals. This may involve chemical etching, abrasive milling, smoothing or roughing a surface, cutting and punching. The most commonly used milling machinery is CNC milling and chemical milling.

Types of Metal Milling Machinery

Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC): Equipment for turning and milling is one of the leading means of metal milling. This equipment allows the most exacting tolerances, increases productivity and provides cost savings by producing complex parts.

Chemical milling and cleaning can help relieve the problems of refractory metal breakage that is often due to micro irregularities in the part surface. Further more different techniques of chemical, photochemical and laser etchings help create embossed products, small metal part involving grooves and holes or even decorating the metal part.

Ramping is another technique growing significantly. CNC technique is applied for this process.

Milling Cutters are used for the cutting purposes.

Platen milling is used for sizing and milling large sheets of metal.
Process planning holds the key for successful completion of a metal milling task. Various parameters like cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut, the tool design parameters, the tool path and the work-piece fixture are just a few that need to be decided way in advance for deciding on the tooling required and the