Star SU Europe

We are delighted to announce that Samputensili Cutting Tools has become part of the Star Cutter Group of companies, changing its name to Star SU Europe S.r.l. and doing business under the Star SU brand.

The Star Cutter Group of companies, originally a maker of gear hobs for the Detroit automakers in 1927, has grown to be a global manufacturer with over 600 employees producing gear tools, round tools, machines and carbide.

Integrating the global reach and resources of Samputensili into the Star SU organization expands our ability to better serve customers in all areas. It will further our technical skills, enhance our product quality, expand our manufacturing capacity and improve our service offerings.

With a presence in North America, South America, China, South Korea, India and Europe, you can rely upon Star SU as a single technology source for your gear manufacturing needs across the globe.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Federico Picchio as the new Sales Director of Samputensili Cutting Tools, supporting customers and partners worldwide.

Federico, who holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna, has matured longstanding experience in the cutting tool industry, having worked at Samputensili for almost 20 years.

Deniz Sari, General Manager of Samputensili Cutting Tools, has declared: “Federico is the perfect candidate for the position as he’s extremely focused, committed and holds an exemplary track record of success in sales and business management.”

Federico has commented: “I am delighted of this opportunity to work in close co-operation with the global sales team of Samputensili Cutting Tools and Star SU to realize our aggressive growth plans for the European market.”

He went on adding: “My main priority will be to focus on gaining customer confidence through a more practical and reliable approach. At the same time, I will concentrate on increasing our market penetration thanks to a further development of the sales network. Last but not least, I will always push for innovation in each and every field, from internal processes to customer service passing through R&D. These are, of course, very demanding goals in a niche market like the gear cutting tool industry, but I am very much looking forward to this new challenge.”

The first lesson of the Samputensili master basic course on the gears tooth machining took place at SAMP Group Headquarter in Bentivoglio, last week.

This new activity has been totally organized and promoted by Samputensili Cutting Tools and it is addressed to all Companies looking for some training solutions for those employees which are engaged daily in the design, production, and control of cylindrical gears, as well as in the purchase of the right gear cutting tools.

There have been many subscriptions to the initiative, including Samputensili’s long-standing customers and partners as for example the Bonfiglioli Group – a control and power transmission’s world leader – which provided three of its process engineers with the possibility to take part in the Samputensili Master Basic Course.

At the end of the training day, during which our Application Engineer Cosimo Caforio dealt with the main issues on the gears tooth machining allowing participants to see first-hand the different production process phases, we asked Raffaele, Massimo, and Alex – the Bonfiglioli representatives – to provide us with a feedback on the training experience lived during the day.

They unanimously stated the basic course is very useful both to deepen the gear’s fundamentals and its manufacturing basic methods and to keep up-to-date with the cylindrical gears tooth machining latest developments.

To confirm the course’s usefulness, the engineers have also underlined how the information acquired could be extremely profitable to carry out their daily working activities. As a matter of fact, a deeper production process knowledge can frequently minimize the risk of errors and bring to the design of meliorative solutions.

Minimizing errors and improving the manufacturing solutions are indeed the course aspects that have pushed some of the participants to sign up to other Samputensili Master modules such as the advanced course, the sectorial courses (about hobs, shaper and shaving cutters) and the application courses that totally aimed at identifying and solving production problems thanks to the right graphics interpretation.

We can, therefore, affirm with pleasure the Samputensili Cutting tools approach not to stop at the mere product’s sale but to support the customer through a shared growth path thanks to customized training and consultancies, has been positively embraced.

According to the words of Raffaele, Massimo and Alex, only the supplier, which manufactures the gear cutting tool, is fully aware of the technical specifications and potential of the product sold and this is exactly why his support is essential to allow the customer to take total advantage of the purchased gear cutting tool.

During the Wear of Materials 2019 International Conference in Miami, FL, Samputensili Cutting Tools, together with the German RWTH Aachen University, published a scientific article about “Development of an Application-Oriented Tool Life Equation for Dry Gear Finish Hobbing”.

The full paper can be read HERE.

This article deals with the analysis of tool wear behavior in gear finish hobbing. Gear finish hobbing is a fine machining method for gears before heat treatment. The most common fine machining process for gears in soft conditions is the well-known gear shaving process. But with the improving technologies in hobbing machines as well as the hobbing tools the use of gear finish hobbing increases significantly. Thereby gear finish hobbing offers the opportunity to realize pre- and finishing processing with one machine at one clamping by the use of one tool. Furthermore, a complete dry process chain can be implemented by the combined use of low pressure carburizing and gas quenching as heat treatment. On account of the above-mentioned economic and ecological advantages, the use of gear finish hobbing is increasingly considered by the manufacturers of gears.

Gear finish hobbing for high-performance gears is mostly divided into two cuts, roughing and finishing.

While roughing process follows the state of art hobbing processes, finishing with hobbing in the gear industry has still a gap of knowledge regarding speeds and feeds. The results of this scientific paper are the analysis of different cutting materials to perform the finish hobbing of gears. For these investigations, tools made out of high-speed-steel, carbide as well as Cermet and CBN were used.

The results of the wear behavior were summarized in a tool life model, which allows the gear manufacturer to choose the best speeds and feeds for their applications.

The collaboration between RWTH Aachen University and Samputensili offers the possibility to investigate the hobbing processes at the level of today`s state of art and beyond. The cutting trials have been performed at cutting speeds up to 1,500 m/min, to find further potentials above today`s process limits. Samputensili is proud to be part of the scientific environment in gear cutting. With this knowledge, we will be able to support our customers in today`s and tomorrow`s gear cutting applications.

Samputensili announces it will be attending the 2019 EMO Show in Hannover, Germany from September 16 to 21.

With over 2,226 exhibitors from 44 nations and approximately 129,000 visitors, the EMO show is the largest and most important and international metalworking trade fair in the world.

We look forward to meeting clients, partners and friends to share the latest news concerning new developments, investments, technology and more!

At our Booth C78 in Hall 26, we will present exciting world premieres, numerous innovations, and state-of-the-art products both for machine tools and cutting tools solutions.

Machine Tools Solutions

The Samputensili SG 160 SKYGRIND is the first gear dry grinding machine in the world with a patented process. A ground-breaking concept that totally eliminates the need for cutting oils during the grinding of gears after heat treatment with a significant reduction in the cost of consumables and a considerable improvement of environmental impact.

The Samputensili G 160 is the fastest gear grinding machine in the world designed and manufactured to fit the requests of the automotive market. On this state-of-the-art machine, the change of workpieces takes up less than 2 seconds including meshing, synchronization and simultaneous repositioning of the tool.

Moreover, following the recent agreement with CLC, a well-known and reputable Italian producer of gear hobbing and shaping machines, Samputensili has entered the market of gear cutting machines. As evidence of this enlarged product portfolio, the newly created company Samputensili CLC S.r.l. will display at the EMO the CLC 260 H – a high performance modular horizontal gear hobbing machine that could be customized for any type of gear or shaft up to a total length of 2000 mm.

Gear Cutting Tools Solutions

A wide selection of gear cutting tools such as hobs, shaper cutters, shaving cutters, etc., enriched with new innovative materials and coatings and enhanced by the worldwide partnership with Star SU, will be on show.

We have the pleasure to display among our gear cutting tools the brand new INNO Tools. The INNO Tools represents the new Samputensili series able to offer our customers a tool with a new level of performance. In fact, this state-of-the-art tools family increases the tool life significantly compared to the standard tools, ensuring higher productivity and reduced costs.

Please write an e-mail to marketing@sampspa.com to arrange a meeting, so we can schedule our agenda in the best possible way!

We are looking forward to your visit at our Booth C78, Hall 26!

Click here to know more about the EMO Hannover 2019!

We are glad to announce our participation to the CIMT 2019 (April 15 – 20, 2019) in Beijing, China.

Star SU, Samputensili and Star Cutter are excited to invite you to the upcoming CIMT (China International Machine Tool Show), the largest and best-known international machine tool exhibition in China, taking place from 15^th to 20^th April 2019 at the New China International Exhibition Center in Beijing.

Star SU International Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., the joint venture between the Italian company Samputensili and the US enterprise Star Cutter, is looking forward to meeting customers and partners to show the results of its constant strive for precision and excellence.

At the CIMT 2019 in Hall W3, Booth B111, the following products will be on display:

– the Samputensili G 160, an innovative gear grinding machine that has been especially designed and manufactured to fit the requests of the automotive market, which is focusing on high performances and excellent quality. The G 160 features a new concept for the high-productive grinding of gears up to 160 mm diameter with double work spindles, where separate X1 and X2 axes, driven by linear motors, replace the typical rotary turret, enabling a faster workpiece change and a record-breaking chip-to-chip time of less than 2 seconds including meshing, synchronization and simultaneous repositioning of the tool.
This unique, patented machine concept ensures the best production times currently on the market.

– the Star NXT Tool Grinder, a CNC 5-axis machine built with the purpose of meeting and exceeding what the market demands: a versatile tool grinder with less moving parts and a small footprint, a large grinding zone, the ability to run small and large diameter wheels with easily configurable options, a modular design and a competitive price point. The NXT features a 28 kW synchronous spindle @20,000 RPM for the grinding of tools of up to 250 mm diameter. Completely designed and manufactured in the USA, this machine is equipped with NUMROTOplus, the best grinding software worldwide, and has been engineered with the latest in linear and rotary torque motor technology to eliminate backlash, friction effects and drive vibration.
The NXT fuses the best aspects of Star’s current product line into a next generation machine that offers benefits of smaller size, greater diversity, increased capability, flexibility, durability and added value.

– a broad selection of gear cutting tools, as the perfect complement for customers’ most demanding manufacturing tasks. A special highlight among them will be the brand new INNOTools, the new high-performance tool family comprising INNOhob™, INNOshave™ and INNOchamfer™ that help customers meet their present and future manufacturing challenges successfully. Among them, the new INNOhob™, an innovative gear hob that combines a very low surface roughness with a dedicated cutting-edge geometry, ensuring an improvement of the tool life of up to 80% compared with the standard hob technology.

– in addition, a wide variety of gundrills and deep hole drilling solutions, solid carbide drills and reamers, and tungsten carbide blanks and preforms that can be used for cutting tools, dies and wear parts in a variety of specialized applications.

Come and visit us in Hall W3, Booth B111: we are looking forward to meeting you there!

Click here to know more about the CIMT Beijing 2019!

Samputensili is looking forward to meet customers and partners at IMTEX 2019 in Hall 4, Booth B120. The show will take place at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) from 24 to 30 January, 2019 in Bengaluru. The Italian company is eager to show the results of its constant strive for precision and excellence, in an effort to make customers’ manufacturing more reliable and efficient.

Samputensili G 160 – an Indian premiere

The highlight of the booth will be the Samputensili G 160, an innovative gear grinding machine that the company is very proud to launch in India. The G 160 has been especially designed and manufactured to fit the requests of the automotive market, which is focusing on high performances and excellent quality. The Samputensili G 160 features a new concept for the high-productive grinding of gears up to 160 mm diameter with double work spindles, where separate X1 and X2 axes, driven by linear motors, replace the typical rotary turret, enabling a faster workpiece change and a record-breaking chip-to-chip time of less than 2 seconds including meshing, synchronization and simultaneous repositioning of the tool. This unique, patented machine concept ensures the best production times currently on the market.

Wide selection of gear manufacturing tools

In addition, a wide selection of gear cutting tools manufactured by Samputensili and its American partner Star SU will be on show as the perfect complement for customers’ most demanding manufacturing tasks. A special highlight among them will be the brand new INNOHob®, an innovative gear hob that combines a very low surface roughness with a dedicated cutting-edge geometry, ensuring an improvement of the tool life of up to 80% compared with the standard hob technology.

Click here to know more about the IMTEX 2019!

We are proud to announce that our Chinese joint-venture Star SU International Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd won the “2018 Annual Users Good Choice Award” of “AI Automobile Manufacturing Industry” thanks to its Scudding tools features.

Indeed, on June 27, 2018, Star SU China was invited to take part in the exciting award ceremony of the “5th AI Users Favorable Comment Award “, which was held by the trade magazine of “AUTOMOBIL INDUSTRIE China ” under the German Vogel Industrial Media. Mr. Han Jinxin, Cutting Tools Sales Manager of North of China of Star SU China, proudly received the award on behalf of Star SU China.

The selection of “AI Users Favorable Comment Award” had lasted for 3 months. Through the comprehensive network voting user evaluation, editorial evaluation, users telephone survey and other links, “AUTOMOBIL INDUSTRIE China” finally picked out the automobile equipment products and solutions featured with “advanced, practical, reliable, high quality, high efficiency, intelligence and cost performance”. Thus, Star SU China’s Scudding with 3757 votes, won the ” 5th AI Users Favorable Comment Award” prize.

The awarded Scudding ® tools are the result of an alliance between Profilator, Star-SU and our Samputensili company for the global market. Their manufacturing technology allows the machining of internal or external gears/splines without the need of an undercut or groove. The end of the gear can be a defined programmed ramp of radius. This process is quicker and more productive. In fact, the high number of cuts per time unit not only leads to a very short cycle time, but it also produces high quality gears with a low surface roughness.

Nowadays, Chinese automobile market has higher requirements for the manufacturing efficiency, quality and cost. In this regard, we are glad to claim that our joint-venture can provide customers leading solutions to meet all their production needs.

Born on March 1, 2015, Star SU International Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd is a key result of the fruitful partnership between Samputensili and Star Cutter in order to strengthen and extend their presence on the global market and in particular to the Chinese market. Actually, the expansion of the co-operation to China enhances the presence of both Samputensili and Star Cutter in this strategic market, strengthens their position and allows them to achieve a competitive advantage in this country.

We congratulate on our Chinese joint-venture for this trophy and we also would like to thank all customers and friends who voted for them. Customer satisfaction is always the most powerful engine to push Star SU China and our Samputensili Company moving forward!

On week 10th, 2018 Samputensili Cutting Tools organized a technical seminar in Pune, India.

Pune is known as one of India’s most important cities for automotive companies and their supplier. Especially a huge number of gear and transmission manufacturer are located there. Also, Samputensili has its facility directly in Pune city center to be close to our local customers. During that week the European management and our local Indian colleagues of Samputensili combined their forces to offer the Indian market a full day dedicated technology seminar. The group of attendants was composed by experts working for some of the most relevant powertrain companies in India, ranging from motorcycle through car to truck industries.

The seminar was focused on the full range of Samputensili’s manufacturing program showing all its aspects, advantages and technical facts. After a digression about Samputensili and its joint venture Star SU given by Teodoro Ceglia, General Manager Samputensili Cutting Tools, our Global Product Manager, Dr. Deniz Sari spoke about technical details, challenges and solutions for gear manufacturing processes. The presentation covered fundamentals, hobbing, shaping, shaving, chamfering and scudding of gears. Every chapter ends with an application example, which shows, that Samputensili is not just a tool supplier, furthermore Samputensili helps to set up new or improve existing production processes. Additionally, Dr. Deniz Sari introduced the audience in the newest tool innovations like the internal chamfering tool or a recently launched high-performance tool family.

During the full day, our customers had successful discussions with our experts from India and Europe. Many question were discussed during the seminar and our customer collected solutions and innovative ideas in their factories.

With their local facility Samputensili can offer the Indian market gear cutting tools with state of the art technology.

It has been a pleasure to have all of you on our Seminar and we are looking forwards to see you soon.

Below some images of the event

Star SU and Samputensili are looking forward to meeting customers and partners at the upcoming GrindTec Augsburg (March 14-17, 2018) in Hall 3, Stand 3100 to show the latest in advanced technology offerings, in an effort to make customers’ manufacturing more reliable, efficient and environmental friendly.

A wide selection of gear cutting tools, round tools, carbide blanks and preforms manufactured by the Italian company Samputensili and its American partner Star SU will be on show as the perfect complement for customers’ most demanding manufacturing tasks. The booth will also feature interactive displays on Star’s line of 5-axis CNC tool and cutter grinding machines which are engineered to manufacture and recondition a wide variety of complex cutting tools.

These and many more surprises will be awaiting you at GrindTec 2018, Hall 3, Stand 3100!

For more information about the show,  please click here.