WEST BOYLSTON, MA U.S.A. (July 15, 2025) EMUGE-FRANKEN USA, a leading manufacturer of high-performance end mills, taps, thread mills, drills, and other rotary tools, has announced that the EMUGE TiNox-Cut High Performance End Mills Line is now being manufactured in its West Boylston, MA U.S.A. facility. These U.S.A. made end mills, named TiNox-Cut VAR, are application-specific for the machining of tough materials, and are guaranteed to deliver unmatched metal removal rates and tool life.
The “VAR” acronym indicates the end mills are Versatile, American-Made and offer Reliable Performance. “The end mill design offers milling versatility for a range of hard-to-cut aerospace materials from stainless steel and titanium to Inconel and nickel alloys and other challenging applications,” said Craig Gosselin, Milling Products Manager, EMUGE-FRANKEN USA. “We are proud to be making TiNox-Cut VAR end mills in America, ensuring quality, reliability and consistency in every tool, made to stringent EMUGE-FRANKEN German specifications and standards.”
The TiNox-Cut VAR End Mills Line is offered in four end mill types for semi-roughing and finishing applications:
- TiNox-Cut VAR-NF end mills are high performance roughing tools for all materials that are difficult to machine, and are very efficient in Inconel and titanium. A fine chip breaker reduces chip size and cutting forces.
- TiNox-Cut VAR-N are high performance tools specially designed for the machining of titanium and titanium alloys. They feature five flutes for high feed rates and have a raised land that increases chip clearance. The end mills are also available in standard corner radius types.
- TiNox-Cut VAR Base are entry-level universal roughing and finishing tools for the machining of stainless and acid-resistant steels.
- TiNox-Cut VAR Trochoidal offers a high metal removal rate (even on low-powered machines), reducing the stress and vibration for difficult materials and thin-walled components. Trochoidal milling is the overlapping of a circular path with a linear movement, converting slot milling into contour milling.
Ideal for high impact applications, TiNox-Cut VAR End Mills are made from premium sub-micron grade solid carbide with a maximized transverse rupture strength. The tools have advanced PVD applied coatings for heat and wear resistance, and an axial internal coolant channel design offers maximum chip evacuation performance and chip cooling ability. TiNox-Cut VAR End Mills provide impressive surface roughness results when compared to traditional end mills. This high-performance end mills line is available in 4 and 5-flute configurations, and the Trochoidal cutters also offer 7-flute designs in metric sizes. The end mills have a maximum 4XD length, and the Trochoidal cutters also have an extra-long 5XD length in its metric sizes. TiNox-Cut VAR End Mills include a total of 188 SKUs and are offered in diameters from 0.125″ to 1″ and also in Trochoidal metric sizes from 6 mm to 20 mm. For exceptional machining rigidity, TiNox-Cut VAR End Mills with Weldon Shanks can be used with EMUGE-FRANKEN FPC Milling Chucks that feature an anti-pullout pin lock system.
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About EMUGE-FRANKEN USA
EMUGE-FRANKEN USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 1,950 employee German company EMUGE-Werk Richard Glimpel GmbH & Co. KG (Lauf, Germany). EMUGE-FRANKEN USA offers end-user technical support through a network of in-the-field engineers and in-house product specialists, all with extensive tooling and
application experience. Over 10,000 types of cutting tools and accessories are stocked in the company’s U.S.
and Canadian Headquarters located in West Boylston, MA, U.S.A. The recently expanded 50,000+ sq. ft. facility includes a technology center with a machining and tooling demonstration showroom and classroom, tool manufacturing and coating, reconditioning, warehouse, sales, support, and administrative offices. For more information on EMUGE-FRANKEN USA, call 800-323-3013, at 1800 Century Drive, West Boylston, MA 01583-2121, or visit (www.emuge-franken-group.com).
About EMUGE-FRANKEN
For over 100 years, the German company group EMUGE-FRANKEN has been one of the world’s leading manufacturers of precision tools for thread cutting, drilling, gaging, clamping, and milling. With 1,950 employees, EMUGE-FRANKEN offers an innovative product program with 40,000 in-stock items and a multiple of that with customer-specific tools. The product range focuses on applications in the automotive industry, power plants, aerospace industry and medical technology as well as general manufacturing. As a complete system supplier for the machining industry, EMUGE-FRANKEN has branch offices or sales partners in 52 countries.
