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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.

RUKO GmbH Präzisionswerkzeuge, manufacturer of drilling, countersinking and cutting tools, has developed a new step drill with step lengths of ten millimeters: The ULTIMATECUT step drill revolutionizes the work process and sets new standards in flexibility and processing time by combining different tools with each other. The new ULTIMATECUT step drill will be available in specialized retailer starting in mid-April 2019.

In order to manufacture drills, a tool steel is required that best meets the requirements of the application. For the production of drilling tools for metal cutting, high speed steel is used.

Screws have heads, which in some cases have to stick out. In most cases, however, the aim is to countersink the head flush with the surface of the material. How to countersink a screw is explained in this article.