Hexagon Edgecam ahora soporta mecanizado en seis ejes

| Modern Machine Shop México

El software Edgecam también proporciona mejoras para el fresado de cinco ejes con herramientas.

Registration Open for Virtual Cleanliness Expert Days Event

| Products Finishing

This year’s event will be held Oct. 18-22, 2021, with a focus on cleanliness inspection best practices for automotive powertrain and electronics manufacturing.

Video: Emerging Leader Allison Heil ‘Leans’ on Shopfloor Data to Help Customers

Lori Beckman | Production Machining

Heil does her job well with the help of her lean manufacturing background. She earned her Six Sigma Black Belt while working as a manufacturing engineer at a company prior to her employment at Amper.

Ecoclean Announces Compact Plug and Play Solvent Cleaning System

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

Reduced unit costs due to higher cleaning performance and lower energy consumption.

Four-Flute Carbide Drill Increases OWSI's Feedrate Fourfold

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

Ceratizit’s line of WTX-HFDS drills saved OWSI 3.5 minutes per part on a difficult job and completely eliminated a secondary operation, increasing profitability.

Refrigerated railcar floor expands composites horizons

Jeff Sloan | CompositesWorld

TrinityRail, in an effort to update a 20-year-old design, seizes the opportunity to apply composites in a structural application in its refrigerated railcar. It’s a first for the rail and composites industry.

Crece la integración de proyectos orientados a la digitalización industrial en México

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

De acuerdo con un especialista de Panduit, en México se han incrementado entre 30 y 35% las cotizaciones de este tipo de proyectos.

10 Billion Feet…And Counting

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

‘Our reason is water.’ Those four words explain a focused strategy that helped Advanced Drainage Systems evolve from a two-man startup into a global supplier of corrugated pipe and water-management solutions with 10 billion+ ft of pipe in service all over the world.

Solvay Develops New Process to Recycle PVDC Food Packaging

Heather Caliendo | Plastics Technology

The results of this proof of concept are opening new possibilities to test the recyclability concept on other packaging applications using PVDC.

Brown and Caldwell Employee Recognized

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

Water Environment Federation recognizes Brown and Caldwell senior associate engineer Pono Hanson with young professionals award.
#workforcedevelopment

PPG ofrece capacitación en línea para profesionales de repintado automotriz

Rosario Taracena | Products Finishing México

PPG Knowledge College es un programa de formación que permite a los clientes de la empresa aprender a su propio ritmo, en los horarios que tengan disponibles.

Con máquinas de Starlinger producen hilo a partir de poliéster reciclado

Ángela Andrea Castro | Plastics Technology México

Korteks, uno de los mayores fabricantes de hilo con sede en Turquía, comenzó a producir hilo a partir de poliéster reciclado con una línea de reciclado de Starlinger.

PPG Will Feature Office Furniture Coatings at NeoCon

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

The company will showcase its color-formulation and color-matching expertise, as well as its range of gloss levels, textures and metallic finishes.

On-Demand Webinar: How Companies are Using Metal 3D Printing on the Manufacturing Floor

| Modern Machine Shop

Join this webinar as Desktop Metal explores how metal 3D printing transforms the manufacturing environment and shares customer success stories and application examples from installations around the world.

Las dos ferias de máquinas-herramienta más importantes de Taiwán se celebrarán conjuntamente

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

TIMTOS y TMTS se realizarán simultáneamente en Taipéi, del 21 al 26 de febrero de 2022, para impulsar el estatus internacional de la industria de máquinas-herramienta de Taiwán.

Wittmann Battenfeld Makes Management Changes at Spanish Subsidiary

| Plastics Technology

Wittmann Battenfeld Spain S.L. announced the changes after the two long-standing managing directors of the Spanish division announced their retirement.

People in Composites: September 2021

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

KraussMaffei, CDI Energy Products and Massivit 3D announce new appointment hires in the composites industry this month.

Permali develops fire-resistant systems for naval vessels

Chris Pasion | CompositesWorld

Permali has developed Permaglass XGR2/4, a new specialist fire-resistant composite material grade that passes strict Ministry of Defence regulations.
#regulations

Bleeding Edge develops blast-resistant composite armor

Chris Pasion | CompositesWorld

Bleeding Edge has created a series of customized urethane composite materials that are reportedly capable of resisting the blasts from an IED and M19 landmine, as well as a polymer transparent armor that is ballistic resistant.

Koch México invita a asistir al Seminario E-Coat México 2022

| Products Finishing México

Antonio Gallegos, gerente general de la empresa Koch México, comenta los contenidos que cubrirá el Seminario E-Coat 2022, a realizarse del 18 al 20 de enero próximo en el Centro Citi Banamex de la Ciudad de México.

Vibration: An Invisible Source of Gaging Error

George Schuetz | Modern Machine Shop

Vibration can make or break a gage’s performance, but vibration errors can be resolved by using a vibration isolation table or other correction measures.

Reshoring Initiative Projects Annual Records

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

If this year stays on track, then the Reshoring Initiative projects reshoring and foreign direct investment job announcements for 2021 will be over 220,000 — 38% above 2020.