WIDIA™ TopGroove™ for Shallow Grooving and Face Grooving TopGroove WIDIA has set the industry standard for threading and grooving productivity with the TopGroove clamping design. The TopGroove design provides consistent tool performance, accurate indexing, and superior clamping to provide excellent surface finish and outstanding tool life. Let us help you select the correct insert for your application needs or upgrade your current TopGroove tooling inventory to include chip control geometries and the high productivity grades available from WIDIA. Rigidity, Versatility, and Chip Control • TopGroove clamping design features a rugged bridge clamp, which locates in a groove moulded into the insert to provide superior resistance to side and radial cutting forces. • TopGroove inserts are available for shallow grooving, deep grooving, light turning, profiling, shallow and deep face grooving, back turning, undercutting, and Poly-Vee grooving. • The proprietary WIDIA chip control design works in multi- directional turning as well as radial feed applications to provide excellent chip evacuation in deep grooving applications. 1. 3. Rigid clamping generates locking forces in three directions to hold inserts in place through the toughest cuts. 2. E40 widia.com