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Ball-End Tool Contours, Chamfers and Finishes in One Pass for Most Materials
| MoldMaking Technology
The new IMCO Carbide Tool Pow•R•Arc end mill, to be shown at IMTS 2022, emphasizes speed for moldmakers. The cutter is able to run and increase feed rates to machine one’s mold up to five times faster than a four-flute tool.
Ball-End Tool Contours, Chamfers and Finishes in One Pass for Most Materials
Grace Stubbins | Modern Machine Shop
The new IMCO Carbide Tool Pow•R•Arc end mill, to be shown at IMTS 2022, emphasizes speed. The cutter is able to run and increase feed rates to machine one’s mold up to five times faster than a four-flute tool.
SAMPE North America seeks active volunteers for technical committees
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
The global professional member society encourages SAMPE members and non-members who are interested in actively engaging, sharing expertise and networking to develop advanced technological solutions.
Axiom partners with NIAR ATLAS for oxide-oxide CMC research
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
Partnership breaks cost and process scalability barriers through the development of oxide-oxide CMC prepreg using AFP technology.
Combination Lathe Enables Both Manual, CNC Operations
Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop
IMTS22: Milltronics showcases its ML16II/40 combination lathe, as well as its VM3018IL performance vertical machining center.
Combination Lathe Enables Both Manual, CNC Operations
Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop
IMTS22: Milltronics showcases its ML16II/40 combination lathe, as well as its VM3018IL performance vertical machining center.
What Are the Limits to Make-to-Order Manufacturing?
Peter Zelinski | Modern Machine Shop
Automated storage and retrieval system maker Modula produces a product with 2,000 parts and hundreds of variations that has to be completed within a customer’s site. Here is a picture of what is possible in making a product tailored to the customer.
Embracing Tools for Continuous Improvement
Scott Francis | Products Finishing
Triplex Plating is a great example of how to use benchmarking, training and employee feedback as tools for continuous improvement.
#workforcedevelopment
American Plating Power Opens Vermont Facility
Scott Francis | Products Finishing
Rectifier supplier American Plating Power announces second new location in Williston, Vermont.
Waking Up to a World Without Manufacturing
Matthew Kirchner | Production Machining
The world now knows what those of us in the manufacturing sector have known all along: the incredible importance of U.S. manufacturing to the overall economy.
#economics
Maquinado en cinco ejes revoluciona el diseño y la manufactura
| Modern Machine Shop México
Además de solucionar los retos que trae el mecanizado de geometrías complejas, los nuevos centros de maquinado en cinco ejes integran capacidades de fresado, torneado, manufactura aditiva y láser, junto con las tecnologías propias de la Industria 4.0.
IRS Issues Guidance for Reinstated Superfund Tax for Key Chemicals and Metals
| Products Finishing
New IRS Guidance for July 1, 2022 Effective Date – Despite industry requests to extend the deadline for implementing the reinstated Superfund tax, the Internal Revenue Service has issued a new guidance to implement the measure.
#regulations
Carbon fiber in pressure vessels for hydrogen
Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld
The emerging H2 economy drives tank development for aircraft, ships and gas transport.
Producción y exportación de vehículos continúan recuperándose en junio
Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México
Durante junio de este año la producción de vehículos ligeros presentó un incremento de 6 % y las exportaciones de 1.40 % con relación al mismo mes de 2021.
EPA Criticized for Ignoring Environmental Justice Concerns in PFAS Strategic Roadmap
| Products Finishing
EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) claims the agency has failed to address adequately environmental justice concerns associated with PFAS in an effort to avoid another crisis similar to the lead in Flint, MI drinking water.
#regulations
Waterjet Machine Creates High-Precision, Complex 3D Parts
Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop
IMTS22: Hypertherm’s OptiMax waterjet cutting machine provides faster and more accurate print-to-part cutting.
Multimaterial 3D Printing Enables Solid State Batteries
Julia Hider | Additive Manufacturing
By combining different 3D printing processes and materials in a single layer, Sakuu’s Kavian platform can produce batteries for electric vehicles and other applications with twice the energy density and greater safety than traditional lithium-ion solutions.
Mecanizado en cinco ejes cambia las uniones soldadas por piezas monolíticas
Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop México
Pasar de la soldadura al mecanizado en cinco ejes le permitió a Barbco rediseñar sus piezas unidas con soldadura por componentes monolíticos, de mayor resistencia y repetibilidad.
EPA Announces Stringent Drinking Water Health Advisories for Certain PFAS Chemicals
| Products Finishing
EPA issued new stringent drinking water health advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS that may be below detection limits as it prepares to develop a new drinking water standards for these chemicals.
#regulations
Water Bottler Powers Recycling with Renewable Energy
Matthew Naitove | Plastics Technology
CG Roxane gets 30% of its power for repalletizing rPET at San Bernardino, Calif., from SolarEdge solar panels.
Overair's Butterfly eVTOL prototype to integrate composites-intensive design
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
Aiming for first flight tests in the latter half of 2023, Overair’s Butterfly aircraft uses Toray carbon fiber/epoxy prepreg strategically to cut weight on its battery-powered, quiet aircraft.
Moldmaking Index Continues Slowing Expansion Trend
Jan Schafer | MoldMaking Technology
The Gardner Business Index (GBI) and the majority of its components showed up in June at a slowing rate of expansion that has not been seen since early 2021.
#economics