Gear cutting, shaving, and shaping tools machine precise gear teeth in steel and alloy components. Using HSS or Cemented Carbide cutters with advanced coatings, they deliver accurate profiles for automotive transmissions, industrial gearboxes, pumps, and high‑precision machinery.
Gear cutting, shaving, and shaping tools are precision instruments used to manufacture high‑accuracy gears for automotive, industrial, and aerospace applications. Gear cutting typically involves hobbing or milling, where rotating cutters progressively generate the gear tooth profile under controlled feed and synchronization. Shaving is a finishing operation performed on hardened or semi‑hardened gears using a toothed shaving cutter that removes small amounts of material to improve surface finish, tooth accuracy, and noise behavior. Gear shaping uses a reciprocating pinion‑shaped cutter that gradually forms internal and external gears, especially when the geometry prevents hobbing. Tooling materials include high‑speed steel (HSS), powder‑metal HSS-E-PM, and Cemented Carbide, often enhanced with coatings like TiN, TiAlN, or AlCrN for wear and thermal resistance. Precision grinding and advanced tooth geometry design ensure high tool life and cutting performance. Applications include transmission gears, differential components, pumps, industrial gearboxes, robotics, and machinery requiring tight tolerances and optimized gear meshing.
BÖHLER S290 MICROCLEAN – “The hard stuff” The unusual alloy point of this bridge material between carbide and high-speed steel gives it a hardness of up to 70 HRC. In addition to its hot hardness and good wear resistance, its compressive strength is one of the most important properties of this powder-metallurgical high-speed steel class.
Read MoreBÖHLER S390 MICROCLEAN – “The decathlete” This grade is our PM steel with many positive usage properties. For twist drills, taps, mills, broaches, or cold-work applications, BÖHLER S390 MICROCLEAN is always a high performer.
Read MoreBÖHLER S600 – “The high-speed steel” Ideal for mills, twist drills, and taps, broaches, cold-work tools. BÖHLER S600 is the most commonly used high-speed steel and is the starting material for our customers who deal with high-speed steel.
Read MoreBÖHLER S705 – “The industrial one” The conventional high-speed steel for industrial applications in machining. With a well-balanced alloy position and cobalt content, this type always manages to get the job done. Cobalt-alloyed molybdenum high-speed steel with high hardness, excellent cutting properties, outstanding compressive strength, high hot hardness, and good toughness.
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