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Since 1974, the name RUKO has stood for outstanding drilling and cutting tools - and highly competent employees who seem to have been born working with the tools. With state-of-the-art production, constant product optimisation and numerous innovations, RUKO has developed into a leading supplier in the tool industry

In metal cutting, choosing the right speed is crucial to achieving the best quality end product. An incorrect speed can not only affect the quality of the machined material, but also shorten the tool life. To ensure that the correct speed is selected, speed tables are an indispensable tool in metal cutting.

Can you talk about real innovation in a countersink? Can you really make a professional countersink visibly - and more importantly - noticeably better?

To put it in a nutshell, it can. The new RUKO ULTIMATECUT 4S countersink provides the proof and completely reinterprets countersinking. It works faster, works more efficiently, saves power and is also many times more durable than conventional countersinks.

12 million tonnes of plastic waste end up in our oceans every year. Because of this, RUKO has decided to offer a sustainable, plastic-free packaging alternative.

Towards the end of the year, we will replace the majority of our assortments in sheet steel cassettes with corresponding plastic boxes. We are thus following a market development that started many years ago.

We therefore ask you to order these alternative articles in plastic cassettes with immediate effect.

The RUKO ULTIMATECUT step drill was copied by the company Karnasch Professional Tools GmbH in geometry, product design and marketing message. This case of particularly brazen imitation has now been honored by the Plagiarius e.V. campaign with its negative prize.

RUKO GmbH Precision Tools has developed an innovation in the field of step drill technology at its production facility in Holzgerlingen, near Stuttgart. With the so-called FLOWSTEP® technology, the German manufacturer of precision tools is setting new standards in metal cutting.

Ronald Weber takes over the management of the RUKO Group from today.

Basically, drilling holes does not seem to be witchcraft. Nevertheless, especially when drilling into hard workpieces, it can happen that the drill breaks and in the worst case gets stuck. Find out in this article how this may happen and how you can prevent the drill from breaking.

The use of coolants and lubricants in metal cutting is extremely important. Why this is so and the advantages of cooling and lubricating are explained in this article.

Due to the development of the coronavirus, we would like to keep you continuously up to date on the current status at RUKO.

You want to drill into a steel beam and don't know which drill to use? In this article you will learn what drill to use, and what you should be aware of.