Heavy-duty cutting places particular requirements on the machine and working processes. If this involves a material such as titanium, which is particularly hard to cut, specific know-how is necessary to deal with these requirements. The aviation industry represents an important market segment for WFL. This industrial sector increasingly requires ever more materials that are deemed to be difficult to machine. Titanium machining in particular is a field in which WFL shines with its wealth of expertise. Titanium has always placed particular demands on tools and machines during the cutting process. In recent years titanium 3.7165 has become prevalent among lightweight materials as a material with outstanding properties, especially in the aviation and space industries and also in the medical sector. It is one of the most frequently used titanium alloys, containing 6% aluminium and 4% vanadium. This alloy, normally referred to as Ti6Al4V, exhibits a very good combination of strength, corrosion resistance and capacity to withstand stresses. Although this material does have good empirical values and cutting data, processing it still remains one of the supreme disciplines in machining.
