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Shop Replaces Two Verticals With One Horizontal

By trading two VMCs in to help finance the purchase of a new HMC, this shop was able to significantly increase production and move to lights-out machining.

Sistema de medición Equator para fabricantes de piezas de precisión

FITMA: Renishaw (stand 2210) exhibirá el sistema de medición Equator.

Breathable Epoxy Flooring System for Floors With Elevated Moisture, Salts

The Vent-E is a breathable epoxy system for floors with elevated moisture and salts, creating a new market for epoxy floors, according to Dur-A-Flex.

Pretend Your Audi EV Is the Prototype

While camouflage car coverings are meant to disguise surfaces of development vehicles, what Audi is doing to the RS e-tron will turn a whole lot of heads — and it is an electric vehicle that you can have in your own driveway.

Norco facility expansion bolsters aerospace, defense project capacity

An additional 10,000 square feet will accommodate increasing demand for the company’s composite services.

Hexagon Agility Mobile Pipeline supplied to CNG project in Jordan

Headed by fuel station chain Masanseer Oil & Gas, the lightweight composite X-Store modules will enable large-volume CNG transportation and distribution, improving project economics, scalability.

SGL Carbon Gardena site purchased by Tex Tech Industries

Transaction of SGL Carbon’s U.S. business activities includes certain assets of SGL Composites Inc., as well as plants, machinery and customer contracts.

GF Divisions Present the Grand Opening of Mexico Facility

GF Piping Systems and GF Machining Solutions will be hosting the grand opening of their Apodaca, Mexico, facility on May 3, 2023. Tour the facility and learn more about the companies’ full solution capabilities.

Qualified Tool Steel Enhances Thermal Transfer, Long Tool Life

Next Chapter Manufacturing has successfully qualified HTC-45 tool steel, an optimized version of H13, to support better thermal transfer and faster cycle times for molders and die-casters.

LifePort acquires Aeromatrix Composites advanced materials line 

The aircraft manufacturer solidifies its capability to provide next-generation advanced materials solutions to aerospace and defense customers.

Lanxess, DSM Engineering Materials venture launched as Envalior

New global engineering materials contender combines Lanxess’ high-performance materials business with DSM’s engineering materials business to offer a variety of material solutions.

Norsepower secures €28 million for modern mechanical rotor sail

New funding will accelerate composite rotor sail production, R&D, marketing, recruitment and more to expand the reach of Norsepower’s fuel-saving and emissions-reducing technology for ships.

Why Towns Want Manufacturing Plants

A manufacturing facility can harness and focus the native ability of people growing up in a town, and channel this into livelihoods and homes for the town’s next generation. Is this something we lost sight of and are now seeing again?

Two Injection Molding Grades of Biobased Materials Enhance Sulapac’s Cosmetics Packaging Portfolio

Sulapac Luxe, ideal for replacing hard plastics such as ABS and its more flexible edition Luxe Flex open up new opportunities.  

Maier Machine Tools' Digital Twin Shortens Development Time

PMTS 2023: Maier’s Virtual Engineering supports developers and engineers in optimally integrating digital twins into their processes.

Oqton Partners With Baker Hughes on AM Production Solution

Baker Hughes is integrating Oqton’s Manufacturing OS into its workflow, including its own proprietary AM solutions.

Pennsylvania Mold Builder Doubles Footprint, Maintains Quality and Company Values

Quality Mold Inc. doubles its manufacturing footprint but maintains its private company values and structure, delivering quality and fast turnaround from mold design and build through sampling.

Tap Magic Waxx Stick for Metalworking Lubrication

PMTS 2023: Tap Magic’s high-performance formula in a solid stick form offers a professional grade cutting fluid for applications on most metals when a liquid cutting fluid is not desirable.

iMFLUX Goes Royalty-Free and Transitions to Mainly R&D Role

By July, P&G will close the iMFLUX site and move to royalty-free licensing through injection-machine vendors and third-party retrofitters. An iMFLUX R&D team will continue to develop the technology.

NOVA Chemicals appoints Roger Kearns as President and CEO

Kearns to accelerate implementation of NOVA’s vision to become North America’s leading sustainable PE producer.

Nexa3D QLS 820 High-Throughput Laser Sintering Platform

This high-throughput thermoplastic production system combines ultrafast printing with open materials and cloud-based software platform to deliver production volumes much greater than other powder-bed solutions on the market.