The metal cutting band mill machine is one of the most versatile of the basic machine tools in use today, handling a broad variety of operations ranging from one-or-two-of-a-kind utility cut-off to complicated 3-D production runs.

When this workhorse machine tool, with its then novel approach to shaping metal was first introduced in the 1930s, it quickly went on to become a standby in shops and on the production line in a host of industries worldwide. Since its introduction, it has posted countless significant advances in cutting rates, accuracies, ease of operation, and productivity. One major advance, for example, was the introduction of the bimetal blade in the 1960s, accompanied by machine features designed to take maximum advantage of this then-new tooling with its many-fold improvement in blade life and cutting rate over carbon steel and single alloy high speed steel blades. Older machines do not have the tensioning ability to take full advantage of this major cutting tool advance.

Band Mills are versatile. In addition to normal plate sawing, they can be used as extensions of our segmenting, notching and shaping capabilities as well as cutting larger blocks, rings and forgings.