Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group with about 45,000 employees in 130 countries and with a world-leading positions in the following areas: tools and tooling systems for industrial metal cutting; equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for the mining and construction industries; advanced stainless steels and special alloys as well as products for industrial heating. In particular, Sandvik Coromant is one of the main industrial suppliers of tools, tooling solutions and special alloys for the metalworking industry, with customers in the automotive, aerospace and energy industries.

In EXTREME it is involved with machining solutions R&D laboratory, materials characterization, modeling and simulation.