Manufacturers and quality professionals requiring high-precision components for automotive, aerospace, energy, medical, and other industries know that removing particles from intersected holes and ensuring no micro-contamination is an ongoing challenge. Customised complex valves, gears, pinions, and thousands of other components can be machined in seconds, but require minutes to finish completely. The results are production bottlenecks, increased costs, and longer time to market.

Proprietary technologies such as TEM (thermal energy machining) from Kennametal are solving increasingly complex finishing challenges faced by manufacturers around the world. Danfoss Power Solutions (Ames, Iowa USA) is a global company focused on fulfilling the needs of off-highway vehicle manufacturers with engineered hydraulic and electronic components. "We manufacture hydraulic manifolds for hydrostatic pumps, a high-volume component," says Lubos Hanulik, Operation Manager, Danfoss Power Solutions. "We use TEM for burr removal on intersected holes, cross-sectional holes from previous machining operations."

After much investigation, the company chose Kennametal Extrude Hone