Acu-Rite Digital Readout App Enables Multitasking

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The Heidenhain brand offers its droPWR with split-screen, enabling users to have more than one application displayed at a time.

Valstone Acquires Henning Industrial Software

Angela Osborne | Modern Machine Shop

Henning Software designs, develops, licenses and supports mission-critical operational and financial management software to manufacturers and distributors to enable improved productivity, efficiency and profitability. Its products include Visual EstiTrack and Visual Books, which provide an integrated, feature-rich, ERP shop management solution designed to manage manufacturing companies.

Nuevos plastómeros y elastómeros circulares, Bornewables Queo

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Borealis lanza Queo, una gama de plastómeros y elastómeros de alto rendimiento con la cual espera alcanzar su meta de transformar 1.8 millones de toneladas de residuos plásticos en soluciones circulares.

Fluido semisintético soluble para la industria metalmecánica

Ángela Andrea Castro | Modern Machine Shop México

FITMA: US Technologies (stand 2846) presentará el fluido soluble semisintético CIM SOLCUT HPD que se dispersa en agua mediante agitación, forma microemulsiones de apariencia translúcida en los bordes.

PSZ Turn Modular Quick-Change System for Swiss Lathes

Angela Osborne | Production Machining

Sumitomo’s PSZ Turn system provides good ergonomics and efficiency by offering a fast, reliable process and convenient cassette changes.

Finishing Activity Ended May the Same as April

Jan Schafer | Products Finishing

Finishing Activity: The May Index reports continued contraction, closing at 48.9, about the same as April’s 49.   

Preparation for Electroplating

| Products Finishing

What you should know about cleaning and electrocleaning.

On the radar: Automated wind blade maintenance

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Several companies are making headway to ease the challenging, dangerous and manual job of wind turbine blade upkeep.

Eve Air Mobility advances eVTOL testing phase

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The Brazilian aircraft company makes strides toward maturing critical technologies for scheduled certification and entry-into-service in 2026.

EDM, Milling Systems for Mold and Die Application Enhancements

| MoldMaking Technology

MC Machinery wire and sinker EDMs like the Mitsubishi SG12 and MV2400, as well as an Ingersoll Eagle V550 graphite machining center, provide more ergonomic and efficient operations.

Dronamics composite cargo drone performs first flight

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The new milestone demonstrates the potential of the company’s Black Swan flagship aircraft to enhance product delivery efficiency.

The Gill Corp. launches more ergonomic website for composites

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

An enhanced user experience, whether its complete product information, new search functions or more mobile-friendly usability, is now available to The Gill Corp. customers.

VasanthaTech Establishes US Operations in Cincinnati

| MoldMaking Technology

Division of India-based Vasantha Group will focus on moldmaking for the medical and packaging markets.

SPE introduces second keynote for ACCE 2023

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

General Motors’ Jason Coryell will be talking sustainability initiatives in automotive in his presentation, “A Role for Composites in GM’s Vision for Simulation-Driven & Sustainable Material Impact.”  

Toray subsidiary establishes glass fiber recycling process in Europe

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Calculations from SKZ confirm that polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) made with this proprietary recycling process reduces the carbon footprint by 45%.

For This Machine Shop, Licensing Is the Answer to the Inventor’s Dilemma

Peter Zelinski | Modern Machine Shop

Machine shops are natural inventors, but not necessarily suited to supporting and marketing a product. This Minnesota shop with an invention related to micromolding will share it through licensing.

Bekum Acquires Thermoplastic Pultrusion Machinery Business

Matthew Naitove | Plastics Technology

Blow molding machine builder Bekum buys into a very different field of technology with technology and personnel from insolvent ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH.

Business Slowing? There's Still Plenty of Stuff to Do

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

There are things you may have put off when you were occupied with shipping parts to customers. Maybe it’s time to put some of them on the front burner.  

Soluciones de limpieza industrial

Ángela Andrea Castro | Modern Machine Shop México

FITMA: T5DC (stand 1024) exhibirá los productos de Borer Chemie AG, fabricante suizo especializado en soluciones de limpieza para el sector industrial.

Internal Gas Pressure Molding Offers Sustainability Benefits

| Plastics Technology

Wittmann Battenfeld says its upgraded Airmould 4.0 technology, which features a more compact footprint, saves material and cycle time — thereby also cutting energy use.

AkzoNobel Wins Airbus Award for Supply Chain Quality, Improvement

| Products Finishing

AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings achieved the highest supplier award in the Airbus Supply Chain and Quality Improvement Program.

Carbios Gets €54 Million for Enzymatic Recycling Facility and Research

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

The French government awarded grants to Carbios for the development of its facility for recycling PET using enzymatic technology.