Suite de moldes y troqueles potencia la excelencia operativa en la manufactura de moldes

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

HxGN Mould & Die, de Hexagon, es un conjunto de herramientas dedicadas de CAD/CAM, ingeniería y automatización.

UE reduce, reutiliza y recicla: nuevas medidas para envases sostenibles

Suset Carlos Campos | Plastics Technology México

La Unión Europea se despide del plástico de un solo uso y da la bienvenida a envases reciclables y reutilizables. Conozca las nuevas medidas.  

Compact, Mobile Dryer Has Unique Conveying Capabilities

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

NPE2024:  Mobile dryer includes closed-loop conveying to minimize the use of ambient air for resin movement.  

Variable Resistance Valve Trim Achieves Lead Time Reduction Through AM: The Cool Parts Show #69

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

Baker Hughes is realizing shorter lead times and simplified manufacturing through powder bed fusion to produce valve trims previously assembled from many machined metal parts. 

Nexteer inicia la construcción de centro técnico de ingeniería en Querétaro

| Modern Machine Shop México

El centro brindará soporte de ingeniería local, incluida la creación de prototipos, validación de productos, pruebas e integración de sistemas de vehículos.

Austrian Recycler's Mission to Recycle PET Takes It Beyond Bottles

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

Mission PET supplements bottle-to-bottle capability with alternative applications for recycled PET.

Gravimetric Pump for Peristaltic Applications

Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology

NPE2024: Riverdale Global’s Maguire MS4 pump uses same load cell technology as the updated RGS Controller

From the CW Archives: I see thermoplastics in your future

Jeff Sloan | CompositesWorld

Thermoplastics are evolving quickly into larger structures and clearly will have a significant role to play in the next commercial aircraft program — whenever that’s announced. This edition of “From the CW Archives” looks back on a thermoplastics pioneer.

CW’s 2024 Top Shops survey offers new approach to benchmarking

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Respondents that complete the survey by April 30, 2024, have the chance to be recognized as an honoree.

Thousandth Increment Pins Designed for Small Cavity, Core Inserts

| MoldMaking Technology

Progressive Components’ TI Pins offerings now include 267 standard sizes.

Supplies Target Mold, Molding Challenges

| Plastics Technology

NP2024: Plastixs provides a firsthand look at a variety of solutions for hot runner mold protection, manifolds, mold cooling and fitting installations to transform injection molding processes.  

Swinburne-CSIRO Testlab grows composites competency via industrial-scale 3D printing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Industry 4.0 facility is integrating an additive manufacturing approach to its holistic processes to optimize composite component production rates, quality and cost.

Move Into Automation Adds to Mold Building Quality, Competitiveness

| MoldMaking Technology

NPE2024: Cavalier Tool is showcasing its multiphase shift into more automated processes for lifters, inserts and slides manufacturing, in addition to giving attendees a chance to step inside a mold.

Joby acquires facility in Ohio, scales up eVTOL aircraft manufacture

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Existing facility at Dayton International Airport will enable 500 eVTOLs per year, serving as Joby’s initial manufacturing footprint in the region.

Stratolaunch celebrates first powered flight of TA-1 test vehicle

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Reusable hypersonic test aircraft met primary flight objectives and approached Mach 5 speed, gathering data for concurrent TA-2 and TA-3 test beds.

Caterpillar Pullers Move Pliable Profiles, Tubing

| Plastics Technology

NPE2024: Versa Machinery’s Caterpillar pullers are designed to pull pliable materials without product deformation.

How Manufacturing Information Becomes "Golden": The Cool Parts Show All Access

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

Baker Hughes saves optimized production information in its PLM system for reuse later, creating “Golden Master” manufacturing routers. Rohan Buntval, additive manufacturing design engineer, goes into greater detail about how files become golden.

6 Cutting Tools for Machining Made Via 3D Printing

Peter Zelinski | Additive Manufacturing

By making tools, additive manufacturing aids so-called “subtractive” manufacturing (better known as machining). Here are examples of how 3D printing balances performance, coolant flow and weight in small and large cutting tools.

Crece la importación de moldes y troqueles en 2023

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

En 2023 el valor de la importación de moldes de inyección de plástico creció 20.64 % y el valor de la importación de troqueles aumentó 55.13 %.

How to Implement a Remote Validation Process

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

A review of the setup and use of a remote mold validation kit.

JuggerBot 3D Awarded $4 Million by Air Force to Develop Large Format Hybrid Additive System

Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing

The project focuses on advancing the ability to print a thermoset composite material that can transform the way an aircraft structure is designed, fabricated and sustained for limited-life aircraft.

AkzoNobel Achieves 100% Renewable Electricity in Latin America

| Products Finishing

AkzoNobel has announced that all of its Latin America-based manufacturing facilities are now operating on 100% renewable electricity.