MAN Truck & Bus expands zero-emission vehicle portfolio

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Small truck series with hydrogen combustion featuring Type 4 tanks is planned for 2025, complementing the commercial vehicle manufacturer’s battery-electric portfolio.

Implicit Modeling and Metamaterials: The Cool Parts Show All Access

Peter Zelinski | Additive Manufacturing

Metafold CEO Elissa Ross describes one of the promises of more effective modeling of geometrically complex 3D printed forms: expanded use of metamaterials. To what extent can material “properties” come from geometry rather than the material itself?

How to Manage a CAD Library

| MoldMaking Technology

Learn five ways to organize your mold design information.

Fresas pasantes SGS de Kyocera mejoran la evacuación de virutas

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

Kyocera SGS Precision Tools amplió su serie de fresas H-Carb de siete filos y alto rendimiento con más de 400 nuevas opciones de refrigeración pasante.

Lithoz Establishes Japanese Technology Network for 3D-Printed High-Performance Ceramics

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

As One, Mitsui Kinzoku and Yugyōkuen Ceramics have chosen Lithoz as a technology provider in driving growth and advancement in the Japanese additive manufacturing community.

Cifras sobre la importación de centros de mecanizado en enero de 2024

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

El valor de la importación de centros de mecanizado tuvo un crecimiento de 45.48 % en enero de este año, comparado con el mismo mes de 2023.

ABB Opens Expanded Manufacturing Facility in Michigan

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The company has expanded its Auburn Hills facility with a 30% increase in facility space.

Downstream Line for High-Precision Profiles

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

NPE2024: System features calibration and cooling tables, haul-offs, cutting units and tilting tables.  

Strategically Manage Pressure to Help Ensure Quality in Co-Rotating Twin-Screw Extrusion

| Plastics Technology

Pressure measurement provides an invaluable window into any extrusion process, but it must also be strategically managed at every stage of the process to ensure a quality part is being extruded.

Eliminating No-Value-Added Services Adds Value for Customers

Lori Beckman | Products Finishing

Answering questions about how to best meet customer needs led this Products Finishing Top Shop to stop using trucks to provide value-added services and instead, start offering in-house solutions.

Riverdale Global Showing Latest Innovations and New Satellite Location in Wisconsin

Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology

NPE2024: Live demos of updated RGS controller are among the highlights at its Wisconsin facility that will house the ‘new’ color R&D lab.

7 Things You’ll Learn at the NPE2024 3D Printing Workshop

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

Are you a molder, toolmaker or OEM looking to adopt 3D printing? Here are 7 lessons about this technology that will be explored during a workshop at NPE2024: The Plastics Show.

Sandvik Coromant Parting Tool Provides Improved Surface Quality

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

CoroCut QD Y-axis parting tools feature upgraded blades with no Y offset, providing easier programming and increased stroke.

Dürr Develops New Paint Supply System for Industrial Applications

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

Dürr EcoSupply P Core minimizes paint and rinsing agent losses.

KraussMaffei resalta sus soluciones sostenibles en NPE2024

María Natalia Ortega Leyva | Plastics Technology México

KraussMaffei promueve la sostenibilidad en todas sus plataformas de fabricación, incluido el moldeo por inyección, con demostraciones en NPE2024 con énfasis en la circularidad y la reducción de la huella de carbono.   

The Cut Scene: The Finer Details of Large-Format Machining

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

Small details and features can have an outsized impact on large parts, such as Barbco’s collapsible utility drill head.

Screw Design Tips to Boost Productivity

| Plastics Technology

In this collection of articles, two of the industry’s foremost authorities on screw design — Jim Frankland and Mark Spalding — offer their sage advice on screw design...what works, what doesn’t, and what to look for when things start going wrong.

Fluent Metal Startup Launches With Focus on Liquid Metal 3D Printing

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

The company says its drop-on-demand technology can enable sustainable, production-grade additive manufacturing using high-value metal components.

Smart Granulator Control Integrates Size-Reduction Systems, Enables Predictive and Knife Maintenance

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

NPE 2024: Conair’s New SG Control is available for its Viper Granulators

Tritone Technologies Forges US Strategic Alliance With Adia

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

Tritone’s technology enables quick and easy switching between a wide variety of metals and ceramics, making it possible to simultaneously manufacture parts of different sizes, shapes and applications.

Custom Core Pins Advance Long, Thin-Walled Part Molding

| MoldMaking Technology

NPE2024: Proprietary CraftAlloy pins highlighted by Crafts Technology offer molders high thermal conductivity and high hardness for lightweighting and reduced wall thickness of parts.

Materialise adds three materials to enhance industrial 3D printing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Materialise expands additive manufacturing portfolio with early adoption of new HP PA 12S and integration of PA 11 and PA-CF materials.