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Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

If you are looking for an opportunity to give back by sharing your moldmaking knowledge and experience, then submit your name for consideration to serve on Moldmaking Technology’s Editorial Advisory Board.

Plastics Processing Continues to Contract

Jan Schafer | Plastics Technology

The September Index signaled a second month of declining activity for plastics processors overall, while custom processors fared even worse.
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Informe destaca perspectivas positivas para industria del plástico en 2022

| Plastics Technology México

Del informe Global Trends 2022 de PLASTICS se desprende que México y Canadá siguen siendo los principales mercados de exportación de la industria del plástico de Estados Unidos.  

KraussMaffei Extends Focus to Large-Scale, Sustainable Additive Manufacturing

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

Company adds large-scale, sustainable additive manufacturing to its portfolio of sustainable solutions for the plastics industry.

Gobierno de Coahuila lanza plataforma para atraer inversión

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

El objetivo de la plataforma CECCAV es promover las ventajas competitivas de la entidad y atraer inversión extranjera.

AddUp Joins Application Center for Additive Manufacturing in Sweden

| Additive Manufacturing

This partnership provides the opportunity for Swedish industry to take full advantage of AddUp’s experience in metal additive manufacturing.

Mastercam Mill Streamlines Multiaxis Machining Process

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The Mastercam Mill software package includes multiaxis features, 3D enhancements and 2D high-speed toolpaths.

Inkbit Vista Automated 3D Printing System Features Closed-Loop Feedback Control

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

Formnext 2022: The Inkbit Vista uses Vision-Controlled Jetting (VCJ) technology to ensure parts are repeatable and accurate to the original CAD design by employing closed-loop feedback control throughout the print.

ExxonMobil promovió soluciones para reciclaje avanzado en la K

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Las soluciones destacadas por ExxonMobil en la pasada Feria K incluyen polímeros circulares certificados que utilizan la tecnología Exxtend para el reciclaje avanzado de residuos plásticos.

Motion Ai Opens New Facility in Minnesota

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The facility features regional sales and support center, classrooms for employee and customer training, a regional fulfillment center, assembly and fabrication shops, a proof-of-concept design area and engineering labs.

Heidenhain Introduces In-Process Gage to Check Tools

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The TD 110 tool breakage detector can determine whether a tool is broken off by more than 2 mm as it passes within a machine tool.

LestaUSA Partners With Wagner

| Products Finishing

LestaUSA announces distribution partnership with Wagner to build proven automated finishing solutions.

RoboDK y BobCAD-CAM lanzan plugin para mecanizado con robots

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

RoboDK y BobCAD-CAM presentan un nuevo plugin para que los operarios programen fácilmente robots para una amplia variedad de aplicaciones de mecanizado.

Meeting the Social Challenges of Changing an Industry

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

At K 2022, Milliken highlighted its various sustainability collaborations in addition to technological achievements.

Upgraded CAM Software Tools Support 3D Mold Embossments

| MoldMaking Technology

The BobART add-on module included in BobCADCAM’s V35 software is a powerful tool that enables users to add text and logos to existing 3D models.  

IACMI names Chad Duty as CEO

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Duty will fully assume his new role as CEO in April 2023, while continuing his position as an engineering professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  

DLR, NLR extend co­op­er­a­tion in aerospace, sustainability

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Building on a longstanding, 50-year partnership, both executive boards are stepping up their game regarding aeronautics, sustainability, climate-neutral aviation, uncrewed flight.  

Massivit 3D wins IBEX Innovation Award for additive composite tooling system

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The Massivit 10000 provides automated, high-speed tooling for composite materials manufacturing, finds foothold in marine industry.    

Solving Paint Adhesion Problems

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

A farm equipment supplier’s quest to find the right cleaning chemistry.

Automatización con robots colaborativos mantiene el control de calidad

Matt Danford | Modern Machine Shop México

Los cobots ayudan a que la inspección siga el ritmo del mecanizado en un flujo de trabajo personalizado y digitalizado para piezas complejas del sector aeroespacial y de defensa.

Sistema de sujeción permite a un taller alcanzar las tolerancias requeridas

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

Este taller de Monterrey, dedicado a la manufactura de ejes para motorreductores, no conseguía alcanzar las tolerancias exigidas por su cliente. El uso de un collet chuck le permitió lograr las dimensiones requeridas y reducir los tiempos del proceso en 54 %.

Proveedores de la industria del plástico: piedra angular de la productividad

María Natalia Ortega Leyva | Plastics Technology México

Como es tradición cada año, la edición Noviembre - Diciembre de Plastics Technology México presenta una herramienta fundamental para conectar con empresas proveedoras de equipos, maquinaria, materiales, insumos y servicios para la industria del plástico en México. Se trata de la Guía de Proveedores.