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CASE STUDY

Cerin SpA, is pushing what is possible,

exploring exotic nickel alloys to set the

future of tool technology

Cerin invested in ANCA technology to take on these challenges and succeed - achieving precision,
repeatability, and stability in their grinding

van Cuscov, Plant Director started at Cerin SpA ten years limited knowledge on how to use solid carbide. Many people
ago as a mechanical engineer and today is responsible for in the industry didn’t know of diamond wheels and thought of
Iproduction. Ivan said, “Cerin was founded in 1971 by Mr diamond as a jewel and not a grinding material!”
Cerin and my father joined the company a few years later. “We were a pioneer with many challenges working in
We were one of the first Italian companies to work with solid unknown territories but on reflection I would say that taking on
carbide and today serve many industries, from aerospace to this challenge was key to our success.”
construction, shipbuilding, energy and automotive.”
“Half our sales are in Italy and the other half abroad, mainly Cerin continues to invest in their pioneering culture
exporting to Germany but also Russia and Japan, China, to stay ahead of technology change
England. Our customers choose to work with us because we “At Cerin we try our best to understand our customers
manufacture a good product. If you ask our customers to say production requirements. If the customer has a problem, we look
something about CERIN, they will only say, ‘A Cerin tool is a at their machining process - how the machine works, how the
good tool.’ And that’s what I think is what makes us successful.” workpiece is placed on the machine, and what are the critical
“From the beginning we never worked with high speed steel issues, vibration and so on. We have even built a Development
as we had a feeling that solid carbide was the technology of Centre to try new materials and new machine technology.”
the future and so we tried to make the biggest step possible “Currently we are looking into the exotic nickel alloys or
into the future. It was very challenging at the time as there was otherwise called high temperature alloys - which are still

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