MakerBot, Ultimaker Announce Merger

| Additive Manufacturing

By combining teams and leveraging additional funding, the merged company aims to accelerate the development of advanced solutions to provide customers with a broad portfolio of hardware and software solutions to serve a wide spectrum of customers and applications.

Pall Corporation to Open New Facility in Singapore

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

The new facility will primarily produce lithography and wet-etch filtration, purification and separation solutions that will help meet the high demand for advanced node solutions.

Unilever Argentina apuesta por el plástico reciclado nacional en sus envases

| Plastics Technology México

Unilever está buscando reducir al 50 % el uso de plástico virgen en sus empaques para 2025 y está ejecutando un plan estratégico en Argentina para lograr su meta.

Anisoprint signs MOU for space-based continuous fiber 3D printing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Continuous fiber co-extrusion (CFC) technology capacities in orbit and for the deployment of additive manufacturing have been demonstrated and validated.

3D Noodles International inaugurates aerospace-ready carbon fiber 3D noodles

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Four types of carbon fiber 3D noodle, or gusset filler dry preforms, are offered with pre-defined radii. They are also well suited for aerospace applications.

3D Metal Printing Adoption Enables Rapid Design Changes, Internal Feature Inclusion, Quality Components

| MoldMaking Technology

Xact Metals’ 3D printing technologies and services are offered for quick, efficient and cost-effective moldmaking and tooling production.

Joint declaration to lead European offshore wind capacity to 150 GW by 2050

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark cooperate to increase wind capacity, expand large-scale energy hubs and explore green hydrogen, all of which will affect carbon fiber demand.

Plataine extends digital thread technology to overcome supply chain challenges in composites

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Cloud and AI technologies provide composites manufacturers a traceable, secure digital thread to stretch from raw material to end product, improving supply chain visibility and quality control.  

The Single Most Effective Marketing Tactic That Modern Marketers Ignore

| Gardner Web

Marketing is about people and that will never change, which is why word of mouth marketing is the single most powerful tactic in all of marketing.
#brandbuilding

Meet the Gardner Business Media Advertising Team

| Gardner Web

Bill Caldwell, Advertising and Production Director, Gardner Business Media, Inc. introduces the team members of the Advertising Department and discusses its three primary functions.

Meet the Gardner Business Media Advertising Team

| GROW

Bill Caldwell, Advertising and Production Director, Gardner Business Media, Inc. introduces the team members of the Advertising Department and discusses its three primary functions.

Building Molds and Legacies

| MoldMaking Technology

Being a leader or becoming a leader isn’t just about the end product, but the people you’re leading and the history you’re making. This also means learning how to identify, address and mitigate conflict.   

Unique Coating Reduces Friction of Sliding Ceramic, Metallic, and Polymer Components

| Products Finishing

An extremely thin, hard diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating decreases the coefficient of friction (COF) of components to nearly zero, while increasing wear resistance.

Sandvik Coromant Appoints New Members to Management

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

The metalcutting tool company will add Michael Eneberg as vice president and head of Global Sales and Nicolas Dellachiesa as head of Merger & Acquisitions.

Flexing Thermoset Polymers Into Production 3D Printing

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

Chromatic 3D Materials develops tough and flexible thermosetting urethanes for additive manufacturing. The resin formulation is only part of the path to scale.

Consumidores de e-commerce hablan sobre sus preferencias de embalaje

| Plastics Technology México

El público que realiza compras a través de plataformas electrónicas prefiere los envases flexibles y sobres protectores para productos como ropa, y que el tamaño de los envases no sobrepase por mucho el del producto.

4 Tips to Gain Employee Acceptance to Change

Carli Kistler-Miller | Production Machining

Change is a good thing, right? Maybe not to all, and if you don’t have employee acceptance to change, the change is doomed to fail.
#workforcedevelopment

Faurecia invertirá 147 millones de dólares en Nuevo León

| Modern Machine Shop México

Faurecia refirió que estarán produciendo asientos e interiores y generarán 1,500 empleos directos y al menos 300 indirectos.

3 Types of 3D Printed Tooling for Injection Molding

Julia Hider | Plastics Technology

3D printed tooling for injection molding, including mold inserts, components and end of arm tooling, were on display at the Plastics Technology Expo.

Polvo para productos de exterior

Rodger Talbert | Products Finishing México

Rodger Talbert, experto en recubrimientos en polvo, analiza algunas de las cosas que se deben tener en cuenta cuando se recubren con pintura en polvo los productos destinados al uso en exteriores.

BLM Group presenta el equipo Lasertube LT7

| Modern Machine Shop México

Durante Fabtech 2022, BLM Group presentó el equipo Lasertube LT7, que permite trabajar de forma automática tubos y perfiles cerrados y abiertos, así como perfiles especiales.

A Career at the Top Helps Rebuild a Job Shop

| Modern Machine Shop

A new approach to management propels expansion into Swiss-type and multitasking machining work.
#workforcedevelopment