Preventing Metal Corrosion with Metalworking Fluids

| Production Machining

All manufacturers deal with metal corrosion and rust. Learn about the causes of metal corrosion and options for preventing it. 

Conceptos clave para el acabado superficial en mecanizado de cinco ejes

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

Carlos Maya, jefe de proyectos de Hemaq, habló sobre las estrategias de mecanizado implementadas para alcanzar mejores resultados de acabado en máquinas de cinco ejes.

Index Corp.’s Sliding Headstock CNC Lathe for Small Parts Machining

Angela Osborne | Production Machining

The frontworking attachment and counterspindle are now housed on separate slides, which is said to eliminate potential interdependence between front-end and counter-spindle machining, enabling greater programming flexibility.

Plastic Reimagined: recurso educativo de ALPLA sobre sustentabilidad y reciclaje de plásticos

Ángela Andrea Castro | Plastics Technology México

El micrositio educativo de ALPLA desmiente los mitos sobre los plásticos al tiempo que informa y promueve soluciones hacia la circularidad de este material.

Index Corporation Introduces Sliding Headstock CNC Lathe for Small Parts Machining

Angela Osborne | Modern Machine Shop

Index Corporation’s Traub TNL12 sliding headstock lathe features a variety of design changes to boost speed, flexibility and accuracy.

Karl Weiler Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From ISA

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

The John J. Buckley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Industrial Supply Association recognizes individuals for their long-standing service, as well as their contributions to supporting the success of the industrial supply industry.

Refurbishing bridges at half the time, cost versus replacement

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Instead of demolishing and rebuilding bridges, SUREbridge doubles the strength and durability of existing structures with an FRP deck for a smart, sustainable solution.

Purdue-related startup Araqev creates quality-control software for additive manufacturing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Araqev software expected to help reduce estimated $2 billion in global losses when using AM through machine learning models that simulate shape deviations for future prints.

Basanite basalt rebar chosen to reinforce underground concrete structures

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Indian Creek Village, an island municipality located in Florida, selected BasaFlex and BasaMesh fiber reinforcement products as alternatives to steel rebar.

LSR Cold Deck Design Facilitates Repeatable, Short Production Cycle

| MoldMaking Technology

Mastip’s LSR solution fits mold plates, manifold and nozzles with cooling channels to ensure the curing cycle only once it enters the heated cavity plates.

InfraCore develops composite helideck for 85-meter seagoing patrol vessel

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Nominated for the JEC Innovation Awards 2022, the FRP deck has undergone rigorous impact and hydrocarbon fire tests, proving that it is robust enough to resist a helicopter crash.

Top five CW news stories for Jan-April 2022

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Read news covering recent acquisitions in the composites industry, Joby Aviation’s progress in UAM, the 2022 JEC Innovation Award finalists, repurposing wind blades and James Webb telescope updates.

Scott Bader commits support to the Indian composites market

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Anticipation of +£20 million investment in India over the next five years in addition to supply of composite and adhesive technologies and technical support.

Magnomatics designs air-cooled propulsion motor for UAM

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Carbon ThreeSixty will be evaluating composite materials use to further reduce weight and increase torque for the 86-kilowatt magnetic gear motor.

INCA Renewtech to build advanced biocomposites manufacturing facility in Alberta, Canada

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The fiber processing and composites manufacturing facility will ramp up INCA’s production of highly refined short and long fibers to substitute increasingly scarce balsa wood in boats, wind turbine blades, rail and automotive.  

3 Examples of How Polymer 3D Printing Is Still Advancing in Important Ways: AM Radio #16B

Peter Zelinski | Additive Manufacturing

On AM Radio, a conversation about ways the basic operation and capabilities of additive manufacturing with plastics is still changing.

PAMA Supports 3D Printing Innovation, Standards

| Additive Manufacturing

PAMA is a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and RadTech, the nonprofit trade association dedicated to advancing ultraviolet and electron beam technology.
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Tri-Mer Offers Tanks for Range of Processes

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

The company develops tanks using rugged, long-life materials that won't delaminate or embrittle, even with exposure to aggressive chemicals over long periods of time.

Precision Machining Technology Review April 2022: Cutting Tools

Angela Osborne | Production Machining

Production Machining’s Cutting Tools showcase includes Ceratizit, Suhner, Horn, Sandvik Coromant, Ingersoll and Allied Machine & Engineering.

Avantium Holds First Piling Ceremony for its FDCA Flagship Plant

Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology

Scheduled for completion by end of 2023, the plant will enable the commercial launch of PEF from 2024 onwards.

BMW producirá nuevo modelo en la planta de San Luis Potosí

| Modern Machine Shop México

A finales de 2022, la segunda generación del modelo BMW M2 se producirá en México para el mercado mundial.

NASF/AESF Foundation Research Project #121: Development of a Sustainability Metrics System and a Technical Solution Method for Sustainable Metal Finishing - 7th Quarterly Report

| Products Finishing

Development of a Sustainability Metrics System and a Technical Solution Method for Sustainable Metal Finishing