Vertical Machining Center Designed for Production Work

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

IMTS22: Takumi’s VC1052 is a linear guide vertical machining center designed for production and batch work.

Gazelle Wind Power teams up with Ferrofab for hybrid floating wind platform

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Center for Manufacturing Excellence to be established in UAE to accelerate manufacture and deployment of next-generation offshore wind platforms.  

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: SGL Carbon

Chris Pasion | CompositesWorld

SGL Carbon showcases its entire product portfolio, from carbon and oxidized fibers as well as textile semi-finished products to finished composite components for various industrial and automotive applications.

Automatic Inspection System Performs Comprehensive, Real-Time Surface Inspections for 3D-Printed Molds

| MoldMaking Technology

LaserVision from Aligned Vision, to be on display at IMTS 2022, uses laser feedback for large-scale additive manufacturing to perform inspection without the need to stop production, ensuring continuous, quality manufacturing.

McLaren, APL unveil high-performance athletic footwear brand

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The all-purpose luxury composite footwear, inspired by McLaren supercars, presents a new silhouette, a three-piece segmented midsole and a carbon fiber plate.    

Calframax Technologies Acquired by SyBridge Technologies

| MoldMaking Technology

Precision tooling company expands opportunities in rigid plastic moldmaking, marks SyBridge’s twelfth acquisition since 2019.

Toyota Tundra composite seatback design awarded 2022 Altair Enlighten Award

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

BASF, Flex-N-Gate, L&L Products and Toyota limited an all-steel assembly, cutting 60 parts down to four composite pieces for 20% weight savings.  

MoviTHERM opens in-house NDT lab

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

New inspection techniques, excitation sources and infrared cameras enhance feasibility study capabilities for customers in the composites industry.  

MC Machinery Welcomes New Hires

| Modern Machine Shop

Alexander Wright and Erik Sweede join MC Machinery. 

The Plastics Industry Association Fills Chief Economist Role

Chris Pasion | MoldMaking Technology

Pineda helps the association generate original, scientific and data-driven research for the members of Plastics.

Arkema to Acquire Polimeros Especiales

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

Polimeros Especiales produces high-performance waterborne resins for a broad range of applications in markets such as architectural and decorative paints, textiles, pressure sensitive adhesives and construction.

New Packaging and Industrial Machines Boast Speed, Energy Efficiency, Web Connectivity

Matthew Naitove | Plastics Technology

Bekum launches two new series of machines with new clamps, extruders, and controls at K 2022 show.

Fish Waste to Nano-Onions: New Milestone in Recycling ‘Garbage’

Matthew Naitove | Plastics Technology

No, it’s not a joke, but a new means of producing a high-tech product from a high-volume waste product of food production.

Prevé AMAS escenario de crecimiento para la industria mexicana

| Products Finishing México

El presidente de AMAS, David González, comentó que la tendencia al nearshoring está trayendo a México operaciones de grandes empresas que buscan proveedores calificados.

Bosch inicia construcción de su planta en Nuevo León

| Modern Machine Shop México

Bosch invertirá 260 millones de dólares para la construcción de su nueva planta en el municipio de Salinas Victoria, en la que producirá anualmente 600,000 refrigeradores.

Sistemas de colada caliente Direct-Flo para inyección de alta precisión

| Plastics Technology México

Meximold: Incoe presenta en la feria estos sistemas que han sido optimizados para el moldeo de piezas técnicas y con uso de resinas de ingeniería.

Alfredo Santa, nuevo gerente regional de ventas de Macro

| Plastics Technology México

Alfredo Santa estará a cargo del área de ventas del fabricante de sistemas de coextrusión de láminas y películas de Macro para América Latina y Canadá.

We're going to need a lot of propeller blades

Jeff Sloan | CompositesWorld

As advanced air mobility expands and annual shipsets get into the thousands, the demand for composite propeller blades is expected to skyrocket. What are the implications for the composites supply chain?

3D Printing Increases Efficiency Of Wind Turbine Blade Alignment

Hannah Mason | Additive Manufacturing

A Markforged digital repository and 3D printers enable faster, more accurate and less costly manufacture of a variety of tools and blade components across Vestas sites.

If You're Reading This Then, You Already Know ...

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

… that a mold matters. You know that a mold is the heart of the injection molding process. You know that a mold is not just a piece of steel; it’s a machine. That is why we launched MMT and now the MoldMaking Conference!  

Soluciones personalizables para automatización y máquinas CNC de SW North America

| Modern Machine Shop México

Durante IMTS 2022, SW North America realizará demostraciones de automatización y mecanizado en vivo de una carcasa de batería para un vehículo automotor híbrido en su máquina BA W08­12.

Management Software Provides Productivity Insights

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

IMTS 2022: Fastems’ Manufacturing Management Software (MMS) Version 8 includes a module that gathers and digests production data and turns it to practical productivity-enhancing tips.