MSC Enhances Metalworking Offering with Expanded Line of Hertel™ Products

New line of indexable threading, drilling and solid milling tools brings added value to meet growing market needs

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Apr 06, 2015, 10:19 ET

MELVILLE, N.Y. and DAVIDSON, N.C., April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- MSC INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CO., (NYSE: MSM) a leading distributor of Metalworking and Maintenance, Repair and Operations ("MRO") products and services to industrial customers throughout North America, is significantly expanding its Hertel line of metalworking products. This expanded offering features a wide range of new tools, including material-specific turning insert grades, spotting drills, combined drill and countersink tools as well as additional solid carbide roughing end mills. In addition to these enhancements, a threading solution has been added to the company's proprietary cutoff and grooving system to help drive greater efficiencies.

"We are constantly looking for opportunities to bring new solutions to market that will not only meet our customers' needs, but help them optimize their businesses," said Brian McGrath, MSC's Senior Product Manager for Hertel. "We recognized the need for more enhanced lines of Hertel tooling in response to our customers evolving needs. Hertel is synonymous with performance, increased productivity, cost control and profitability, and it was our goal to give them more selection to achieve their business goals." Click to Tweet: .@MSC_Industrial expands metalworking offering with new line of #Hertel products to meet manufacturers' growing needs: mscdirect.com/hertel.

Hertel has historically offered a full line of general turning inserts in common geometries, sizes and multiple grades. Its portfolio includes high-speed steel, cobalt and carbide drills in a variety of lengths, such as jobber, screw machine and taper. Threading products are available in general purpose hand, spiral point and spiral fluted taps with taper, plug or bottoming chamfers. Hertel offers a full line of general purpose end mills, including roughing, ball nose, square end, 2-flute, 3-flute, multi-flute and double-ended products. The range of expanded tooling now also includes:

Hertel turning insert products including HC115T turning grade for steel, HP410T/HT410T grades for non-ferrous materials, and HP510T grade for high temperature alloys. The new grades are available in a comprehensive selection of insert shapes and chip control geometries for fine finishing, medium, and roughing applications. In addition we've also added our next generation of insert grades which include HC1250T, HP225T, HC405T and HC315T. These new grades and chip breaker geometries work across a wide variety of applications, including steel, stainless steels and cast iron.
HertelNotch™ is our new comprehensive grooving and threading platform which includes inserts, tool holders and spare parts, all designed to cover a wide range of materials.
A threading solution adds to MSC's versatile proprietary cut-off and grooving system, increasing its flexibility and effectiveness. The system incorporates various combinations of inserts, blades and monoblock tool holders that enable tooling to be exactly tailored to specific production needs. Customers can select from material-specific grades to drive the most productivity in various work piece materials.
More than 250 new Hertel spotting drills and combined drill and countersink tools join the hole-making tooling line. With 60˚, 90˚, and 120˚ point geometries, the HSS and cobalt tools can meet a wide range of application requirements.
Added versions of workhorse M42 cobalt roughing end mills include new sizes, coatings and fine and coarse roughing geometries.

The expanded line enables manufacturers in the transportation, aerospace, oil and gas, medical and general engineering industries to realize greater speed, accuracy and precision in all of their metalworking tasks. Hertel tools are delivered exclusively by MSC, which provides a money-back guarantee on all purchases. Customers can view and purchase Hertel products online at mscdirect.com/hertel.

About MSC Industrial Supply Co.

MSC Industrial Supply Co. (NYSE: MSM) is a leading North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) products and services. We help our customers drive greater productivity, profitability and growth with more than 1 million products, inventory management and other supply chain solutions, and deep expertise from more than 70 years of working with customers across industries.

Our experienced team of over 6,500 associates is dedicated to working side by side with our customers to help drive results for their businesses - from keeping operations running efficiently today to continuously rethinking, retooling, and optimizing for a more productive tomorrow.

For more information on MSC, please visit www.mscdirect.com.

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