Meviy Batch Dimension, Tolerance Feature Supports CNC Milling Workflows

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

Meviy’s batch dimension and tolerance feature improves the user interface, making it faster and easier for engineers and designers to enter dimensions and machining tolerance specifications for holes.

Catack-H displays advanced recycled composite solutions

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

JEC World 2026: Catack-H offers a comprehensive portfolio of recycled carbon fiber technologies for automotive applications and construction, as well as tailored end-use products.

Craftsman Cribsheet No. 148: G-Code Macro Arithmetic Operators by Controller

David Wynn | Production Machining

A breakdown of G-code macro keyword functions across a range of major controllers. 

Hamar Laser Measurement System Enables Fast, Accurate Calibration

Chris Pasion | Production Machining

The L-703SP surface plate calibration system offers high resolution and accuracy, easy setup and training and fast data collection.

Plastic Additives and Fillers for Wear and Friction Applications: Part 2

| Plastics Technology

How can additives and fillers be deployed to augment the wear and friction capabilities of the base polymer, and what are the potential pitfalls for each?

Hainbuch celebra 75 años de innovación en tecnología de sujeción

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

La empresa alemana Hainbuch, especializada en tecnología de sujeción para mecanizado, celebra 75 años de trayectoria desde su fundación en 1951 por Wilhelm Hainbuch.

The technical edge behind one-piece carbon fiber wheels

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

SNAPSHOT: Among the more obvious lightweight and seamless construction advantages, one-piece automotive composite wheels delivers a host of other benefits, though there still remain some barriers to their scaled production.

L&L Products engineers foam core, thermoplastic adhesives and tailored composite solutions

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

JEC World 2026: Whether designing for efficiency, durability, workers safety or sustainability, L&L products like InsituCore and T-Link aim to push strength, weight and flexibility boundaries.

Surface Finishing Is The Hidden Power Behind Modern Manufacturing

Grace Stubbins | Manufacturing Connected

The right finish influences quality, efficiency and long-term value across industries.

Physical AI Eases Automation of High-Mix Manufacturing

Julia Hider | Modern Machine Shop

A partnership between military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries and AI-powered robotics company Path Robotics promises to reshape high-mix manufacturing in shipyards and beyond.

Sistema de medición Equator-X 500 de Renishaw mejora el control de proceso en planta

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

La plataforma Equator-X 500 combina dos métodos en un mismo equipo —Absolute y Compare— para seleccionar la estrategia de inspección óptima, con velocidades de exploración de hasta 250 mm/s (Absolute) y 500 mm/s (Compare).

Web Industries highlights material formatting strengths for composites optimization

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

JEC World 2026: Web Industries supports commercial aerospace, space, defense, UAV/UAM and energy customers with a full range of tailored, mission-critical solutions.

Royal3D launches Interlayer Control System for industrial 3D printing quality control

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Real-time, continuous monitoring helps to reduce misprints, improve layer adhesion, lower material waste, shorten lead times and enhance quality control.

Loop Technology robotic systems address confined space inspection, high deposition rates

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

JEC World 2026: On display and in action is the Bravura snake arm robot that has been created to introduce automation into tight, restricted spaces, and the FibreForm 3D conformal pick-and-place end effector.

Trilion Quality Systems certifies 3D optical testing, lowers adoption barriers with Aramis 1

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The system serves as a strategic entry point into noncontact optical metrology for materials engineers, with a clear growth path toward larger fields of view, higher resolutions or more advanced configurations. 

Fraunhofer IGCV demonstrates thin-walled, intricate helicopter inner door shells

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

JEC World 2026: Fraunhofer IGCV presents the LIGHT project’s SMV helicopter door shell with high geometric complexity, integrated features at low costs.

Gitana 18 maxi trimaran pushes boundaries of fully airborne offshoring maritime racing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

North Sails, Southern Spars and Future Fibres deliver an aero-optimized sail and carbon fiber rig package for the Gitana Team’s latest flagship multihull, born to fly offshore and to challenge major Atlantic and global races.

Farrel Pomini lanza Compact Processor para WPC

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

El sistema integra mezclador continuo y extrusor para producir wood-plastic composites con alta carga de madera y menor consumo energético.

Plastics Processing Expands for Second Consecutive Month in February

Mike Shirk | Plastics Technology

Gardner Business Index reaches 54.1, up from 52.1 in January. Stabilizing financial conditions suggest firmer footing despite continued tariff uncertainty.
#economics

Cato Composites completes W8SVR integration, expands TPC portfolio

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

JEC World 2026: Under the W8SVR brand, Cato Composites now offers a wide range of tailored TPC materials, including customized fabrics, laminates and blanks based on UD tapes.

Ford de México anuncia cambios clave en su área de manufactura

| Modern Machine Shop México

Los cambios en el área de manufactura de Ford de México incluyen a las plantas de Cuautitlán, Chihuahua, Hermosillo e Irapuato.

CCAI, Runwayz to Build Talent Awareness Tool for Future Finisher Pipeline

| Products Finishing

Collaboration will connect students and early career individuals to skilled trades and manufacturing careers through a mobile-first platform, ensuring industry navigation, pathway discovery and streamlined workforce connections.
#workforcedevelopment