Carbide costs are up. The tools you own are an asset.
With carbide pricing climbing, the tooling already sitting in your crib is one of the fastest cost levers on the floor. Through ARCH’s RECON360 program, NSIT turns used cutting tools back into like-new ones — reducing tooling costs by up to 50% while keeping carbide out of the scrap bin. Send us any brand of used insert, indexable cutter body, tool holder, or solid round tool: we quote what’s serviceable and recycle what isn’t.
Replicate the original geometry of solid round tools farther down the shank — a worn tool back to like-new.
Clean up worn areas on inserts and solid round cutting tools by regrinding the edges — then straight back into the cut.
Strip and reapply coating to increase tool life, improve process security, and reduce friction.
Braze a new carbide, CBN, PCD, or ceramic cutting edge onto inserts and round tools.
Restore damaged areas of indexable cutting tool bodies to like-new condition.
Grind inserts or solid round tools down to a different size, shape, or application — used into useful.
Over $200,000 saved per year — five-plus years running
ARCH designed a custom solid carbide tapered ball nose end mill for a medical end-user machining cobalt-chrome and titanium-based alloys, held to a ±0.0005″ radius tolerance with TIR under 0.0002″. Through a recurring re-manufacturing program, that same tool is reground and remanufactured again and again — saving the customer over $200,000 a year for more than five years and counting.