Media Release 29 Aug 2023

Media Release

DRILL BETTER WITH ALPEN

Austrian Alpen makes quality bits for every drilling job

Proudly Austrian, specialised drill bit manufacturer Alpen has a simple philosophy. Drill better! With 60 years' experience, every Alpen drill bit is exclusively manufactured to the best possible quality in its factory in Austria. That allows Alpen to consistently control its entire production process and guarantee quality, reliability and the perfect drilling job.

Alpen drill bits are exclusively distributed by Vermont Sales in South Africa. Alpen prides itself on its innovative guaranteed products delivering more accurate and more reliabile work, through a longer working life. Beautifully packaged to stand out at point of sale, Alpen drill bits are certified and quality controlled by a broad spectrum of institutions.

The drill expert for the professional, Alpen's intensive and broad product range of specialised, metal, masonry, and wood drill bits, is designed to provide you with the right bit to solve any possible drilling job. Faster, more efficiently, and more precisely than ever.

Alpen's range of specialised bits include C protector and tungsten carbide multipurpose, granite, glass, diamond tile and rotary ceramic bits, a new specialised porcelain tile bit, and cavity brick and hex shanks. Easy to position and centre, and stable to drill with, most Alpen specialised bits feature highly accurate centring, an anti-slip shank, a patented tungsten carbide plate, and that Alpen quality seal.

Alpen's tungsten carbide tools and solid carbide stub drills are best to bore into heat resistant, high carbon and similar tough steels, bronze, high silicium aluminium and other difficult to machine materials. Featuring a multi faced point to optimise chip flow, multi facet geometry for self-centring, and high cutting speed and feed, these durable Alunit-coated high performance Alpen bits benefit are suitable for dry drilling. They do not require cooling but are also not suitable for percussion drilling.

If it's hammer-active bits you need, Alpen's range of high performance SDS and SDS-Plus concrete and masonry bits and chisels will cater for problem-free boring in reinforced concrete. Boasting four tungsten carbide cutting edges and a new progressive spiral design with a dowel length indicator for exact drilling depth, these vibrationless bits ensure fast dust removal and reinforce jamming protection for a quick and effective concrete drilling.

Alpen's range of metal bits includes high speed steel super, double-ended and HSS stub drills for rivets. These sturdy, break resistant bits have sharp cutting edges for the precise drilling of thin metals in portable hand tools. Perfect for body and car repair shops and the like. Highly efficient, short, stable and break resistant industrial quality 5% cobalt-alloyed HSS Stub Drills meanwhile boast highly accurate centring for stainless, acid-resisting and spring steel boring with a hand drill.

Alpen's 5% cobalt-alloyed HSS jobber dowels and wood drills are heat resistant up to 650°C. They have sharp pre-cutters and highly accurate centring to ensure precise holes drilled into hard wood, chip and fibre boards, and dowel holes. Alpen also makes high speed steel cobalt hand tap sets, countersinks, step drills, conecuts and drill file rasps.

Supported by Vermont Sales, Alpen supplies its bits individually, or in a broad variety of sets packed in either metal or plastic cassettes. They vary from combinations of popular and quick-selling sets to a selection of mixed content multipurpose sets, and even single type sets bits of a particular bit.

Alpen is a Vermont Sales brand. Established in 1985, Vermont Sales offers a huge range of tool solutions from more than 50 leading, tried, tested, and guaranteed brands. Available through well over 3,000 outlets throughout Southern Africa, and backed by the Vermont Sales Force, the company also offers comprehensive training across all its brands. Learn more at vermontsales.co.za.