ABB OmniCore Robot Controllers Feature 1,000+ Functions

Angela Osborne | Production Machining

Controllers are said to offer faster performance and enhanced flexibility to enable improved productivity and ability to respond to changing market demands.

Carbon Launches New M-Series Printers

Heather Caliendo | Plastics Technology

The printers have a wide range of high-performance materials tailored for applications across industries, including automotive, life sciences, dental, consumer products, and industrial.  

Salt Spray Vs. Cyclic Corrosion Tests

| Products Finishing

Joseph Subda, ecoat specialist for Axalta Coating Systems, explains the difference between these two corrosion resistance tests. 

Protección contra la corrosión directa al metal en una capa

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing México

El sistema de recubrimiento VpCl-396 de Cortec Corporation está diseñado para aplicaciones en las que se necesita un primer anticorrosivo y una capa superior para proteger los sustratos metálicos.

America Makes Announces $500,000 Project Call

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

Leveraging Additive for High Velocity Applications (LAVA) project call aims to help advance AM’s role in securing the domestic supply chain.

Video: Functional Excavator Features 3D Printed Parts

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

Oak Ridge National Lab's Project AME swapped an excavator's cab, stick and heat exchanger for 3D printed parts. Stephanie Hendrixson and Peter Zelinski get the scoop. 

Technology Marketing highlights Armor-Mask APE 200 polymer elastomer formulation 

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Coatings, maskants and sealants are effective sealant barriers in high-temperature, corrosive environments, from composite tooling to industrial equipment.

Hexcel composite materials lightweight Sunseeker 90 Ocean luxury yacht

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Hexcel’s HexPly XF and HexPly SuperFIT surface technologies yields parts with paint-ready surfaces for builder of luxury yachts.

AERO Technology Exterior Finish Featured on Land Rover Defender

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

AERO Sustainable Material Technology finishes reportedly offer a durable finish with self-healing properties and reduced environmental impact. 

Heartland, Ravago leverage engineered hemp additives for next-gen plastic resins

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The carbon-negative and renewable plastic additives will reduce the carbon footprint of plastics manufacturers while producing composite products that are stronger, lighter, cheaper and more sustainable.

Gema USA Inc. Expands Sales, Service and Operations Teams

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

The Indianapolis-based powder coating technology company has hired five new employees.

Umicore Combines Electroplating, Thin Film Business

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

The company’s new Metal Deposition Solutions business unit combines the former Electroplating and Thin Film Products business lines.

Magnetic Ring Encoder Delivers Functional Safety for Machine Tool

| MoldMaking Technology

Heidenhain’s contamination-resistant, absolute modular magnetic angle ECM 2400 is suitable for high rotational speeds, angular accelerations and limited space.
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MoldMaking Technology Announces Booth Featured For PTXPO 2022

| MoldMaking Technology

The brand will feature live recordings of their popular MMT Chats web series, the Mouldmaker Card Game and other giveaways during the three-day show schedule in March.

Branding: Making a Name for Yourself

| Gardner Web

Branding continues to be the rage. Companies spend funds trying to brand or rebrand. So what is branding, and how does it apply to your business? How can you use it to make your company more successful, or avoid unnecessary expense? This paper looks at these issues.
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NLR, Synthesites work toward intelligent manufacturing for aerospace structures

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

NLR acquires fully operational intelligent resin monitoring system for noninvasive, real-time resin viscosity and glass transition temperature estimation.

Bye Aerospace all-electric eFlyer 800 program advances 

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Production backlog reaches 135 purchase deposits and option agreements, approaching a total of 900 units in backlog.

WSU opens registration for online composites courses in March

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Join WSU, industry experts and the FAA for hands-on Composite Maintenance Technology (CMT) and Composite Structural Engineering Technology (CSET) courses beginning March 7 and March 14, respectively.

IHC Launches New Program to Facilitate Global Trade of Recycled Plastic

Heather Caliendo | Plastics Technology

Scheduled to open for trading in mid-2022.  

Top Grade Molds Is All About Innovation and Collaboration

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

Top Grade Molds develops technology solutions with a heavy emphasis on R&D, recyclable material trends and collaboration.

Manufacturas generan el 55% de los empleos en Nuevo León

| Modern Machine Shop México

Durante 2021 el 55% de los empleos generados en Nuevo León correspondieron al sector manufacturero.

Plastic Bank Stops 2 Billion Plastic Bottles from Entering the Ocean

Heather Caliendo | Plastics Technology

In reaching this milestone, the social enterprise worked with more than 30,000 collectors across the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and Egypt.