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OSG had a ROARIN’ good time yesterday at the Brookfield Zoo 5k, Zoo Run Run, to benefit the Chicago Zoological Society’s Conservation Fund.  Twenty-one runners strong, this is the third 5K run/walk of the season for the OSG Runners Club.

Instituted over two years ago, the Runners Club has been growing in popularity among OSG employees with about 70 employees and their family members participating this year alone. This is the largest group since the club’s inception.

As part of the OSG Wellness Campaign, OSG covers the cost of registration for up to four running events per year. The group holds a meeting at the beginning of each year to choose which races to participate in, doing their best to include some local races, races that support a charitable cause and races that allow you to run or walk.

We have introduced our highly anticipated 2014 Cutting Tool Solutions Catalog in print and digital versions.

The latest catalog edition is 1200 pages and features new tap products including the EXOPRO^® CC-SUS, EXOPRO^® WHR-Ni and EXOTAP^® A-TAP^®, the EXOPRO^® PHX End Mills, and many expansions to existing quality lines such as the EXOCARB^® WXL^® and WXS^® premium performance carbide end mills, EXOPRO^® Mega Muscle and EXOCARB^® WDO^® Drills.

A notable addition to the catalog is the new Composites section that lists OSG's top tier of high performance tooling for CFRP and CFRP stacks.

The 2014 Cutting Tool Solutions Catalog can be accessed digitally here or you can request a free hard copy using the Literature Request Page.

Featured employee: Vicki Stevic

Title: Production Control Supervisor

Tenure with OSG: 19 years

If there’s one thing that Vicki’s tenure with OSG has taught her, it is that hard work and dedication do not go unnoticed.  But those things do not stop at the doors of OSG for Vicki. With her main focus being her three children and raising them to stay on the right track, she recognizes how much discipline and organization it requires to neglect neither work nor her family.

Vicki admits that her mom is her true hero, looking to her for inspiration. “She came to the United States at the age of 18 after marrying my father without any family of her own. She learned the language, raised two children and ran the household, always while working a full time job. She is an amazing woman, wife, grandmother, mother and friend.”

Although Vicki’s personal goal is to live a healthier life through food and exercise, her passion will always be her family.

David Whitmire, District Manager

There are many things that can hold job shops back, from tight tooling budgets to non-coolant through machines.  On a recent visit to a customer located in Overton, TX, the owner of a medium sized job shop had expressed a major concern regarding one of his drilling operations.  The OSG solution easily solved both these issues and more.

The customer was trying to drill a 7/16” diameter hole, 9” deep in alloy steel using a competitor’s high-speed steel drill, running at 525 RPM and a feed rate of 0.003 IPR. With that tool, at those parameters, they were pecking every 0.050” to get the chips out of the hole, which added considerable time to the process; it was taking approximately 22 to 25 minutes to drill just one hole.

Based on the cutting conditions and the trouble they were having with pecking, I knew that this was a great application for the OSG HELIOS^® Drill. OSG’s V-Series HELIOS^® drill is a high-speed, cobalt drill designed for deep-hole drilling. The unique design and patented technology of this drill gives it the ability to process deep holes without the use of internal coolant supply. State-of-the-art flute design improves chip evacuation, making it feasible to drill up to 20D without pecking. By utilizing OSG’s WXL^® coating, the V-Series HELIOS^® drill can handle a wide range of materials with up to three times greater wear resistance versus conventional coatings.