09/09/2026
70% faster than honing.
That's the kind of number that gets attention on a hydraulic cylinder line, where bore finishing has been done the same way, with the same bottlenecks, for decades.
Honing hydraulic cylinder bores usually requires multiple tools, handling and disposing of sludge, and a process that's hard to speed up without compromising the finish.
Sugino's Skive Roller takes a different approach: a skiving head and a roller burnishing head, combined in one tool. Skive on the way in, burnish on the way out (or do both in a single forward pass) — and you're done. One tool. No sludge. A smoother, more uniform bore than grinding or honing typically produces.
For shops running cylinders for construction, ag, or mining equipment, that's not a marginal improvement; it changes what the job actually costs you to run.