Alliance Manufacturing Acquires TDC

The acquisition of TDC gives Alliance expertise related to electronic component cleaning, printed circuit board cleaning and deionized water recycling systems.

ANCA lanza una nueva generación de brocas y fresas helicoidales

Una nueva generación de endmills helicoidales de diamante policristalino sólido (PCD) y brocas fue presentada por ANCA.

As Currier Grows in Medical Consumables, Blow Molding Is Its ‘Foot in the Door’

Currier Plastics has added substantial capacity recently in both injection and blow molding for medical/pharmaceutical products, including several machines to occupy a new, large clean room.

Lennox Internacional invertirá 150 millones de dólares en Coahuila

Lennox Internacional, proveedor de la industria de calefacción, ventilación, aire acondicionado y refrigeración, invertirá 150 millones de dólares y generará 700 nuevos en Coahuila.

MMT Chats: American Mold Builders Association on Best Practices for Employee Attraction and Hiring

MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges sits down with AMBA’s Managing Director Kym Conis and the Director of Strategic Execution Rachael Pfenninger to discuss its Employee Attraction and Hiring Playbook and the Workforce Development Task Force. This episode is brought to you by ISCAR with New Ideas for Machining Intelligently. 
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Volumetric Accuracy Is Key to Machining James Webb Telescope

To meet the extreme tolerance of the telescope’s beryllium mirrors, the manufacturer had to rely on stable horizontal machining centers with a high degree of consistency volumetric accuracy.

European R&D project Bizente researches enzymatic technologies to recover thermosets

Through protein engineering, project partners molecularly modify enzymes and resins to make it possible to recover thermoset composites and give them a second life.  

BAE Systems extends multi-year F-35 tail assembly agreement with Magellan Aerospace

Horizontal tail assembly production for the composite fighter aircraft continues at Magellan’s Winnipeg facility, targets more than 1,000 shipsets for the duration of the program.  

Ross FDA-3500 dual shaft mixer designed for high-speed polymer dispersions

Custom-built multi-agitator system is ideal for producing resin blends, filled composites, plastisols and more.  

PVD-Grade Carbide Milling Inserts Address Mold Machining Challenges

The new PVD grade from Walter USA is now reportedly capable of 30% greater performance in stainless steels and heat-resistant super alloys, and up to 75% greater performance in steels than comparable grades.

WETO funding opportunity addresses wind energy deployment challenges

Wind Energy Technologies Office releases $28 million in funding for interested parties to address barriers to the deployment of wind energy onshore, offshore and distributed.   

UD researchers advance TuFF composite's viability for aerospace

The University of Delaware’s research team continues to mature the short fiber composite’s cost competitiveness with metal through sensor embedding, virtual modeling and TuFF thermoset manufacture.  

Cryomotive opens Hydrogen Storage Manufacturing Center 

Cryomotive is to develop, manufacture and assemble Cryogas composite hydrogen tanks for commercial vehicles, buses and ships at new Pfeffenhausen site, accelerating hydrogen refueling systems production for zero-emission commercial vehicles.  

What Makes a Good Marketing Message?

Marketers need a message that’s easy to deliver in any medium — digital, physical, in person, or hybrid. With a real Message Map, your message becomes much easier to deliver and absorb.

Notched testing of sandwich composites: The sandwich open-hole compression test

A new ASTM-standardized open-hole compression test method seeks to determine the notch sensitivity of sandwich composites. 
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Speeding Up Splines

Moving small- to medium-batch production from outsourced, dedicated hobbing operations to in-house, CNC multitasking machines helps job shops achieve quick turnarounds and flexibility in supplying splines for the heavy-vehicle industry. Inserted disc cutters make this transition possible.

Microplastic Flows in the Water Cycle

Tricky questions about the bits of plastic that seem to be everywhere.

NASF Releases December 2022 Policy Update

The National Association for Surface Finishing has released a Policy Update, summarizing some of the pertinent regulatory developments and new announcements from the month of December.
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Rectificadora de Studer incorpora rueda de rectificado de gran tamaño

El campo de aplicación de la máquina S36, de United Grinding, se extiende a sectores como moldes y troqueles, aeroespacial y automotriz, entre otros.

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Springer Industrial Welcomes Technical Sales Representative

Victor Salinas joins the Spring Industrial team as a technical sales representative, providing support to customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.