Rising Supplier Delivery Reading Sustains Expansionary Index Trend

Michael Guckes | Products Finishing

Industry Signals Slowing Business Expansion Excluding Rocketing Supplier Delivery Activity
#economics

PLASTICS Releases New Safety Standard for Robotics and Injection Molding

| Plastics Technology

New standard establishes guidelines for the design, implementation, set-up, operation, maintenance and modification of robots in use with injection molding machine systems.
#regulations

TUMI unveils premium composite capsule luggage and travel collection inspired by McLaren

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Nine-piece collection embodies TUMI and McLaren’s mutual focus on quality, lifestyle and advanced material usage for elegant business, and travel.

Multi-Tasking Machine Enhances Flexibility, Speed and Automation Integration

| MoldMaking Technology

Smaller footprints, faster spindles, new turret design and ease of automation underscore new series from Mazak Corporation.

Thermwood completes first LSAM 1010 system

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Large-scale additive manufacturing system simultaneously prints and trims via a single, large gantry and offers speeds up to almost three feet per second. 

Refined Shoulder Milling Cutter Design Offers More Teeth and New Insert Mounting Positions

| MoldMaking Technology

The expanded Walter USA Xtra-tec XT M5130 family offers greater penetration depth and increased reinforcement for improved tool body productivity.

Amerimold 2021 Is Returning, And We Want to See You There!

| MoldMaking Technology

After surviving a global pandemic, moldmakers, molders, OEMs and tier suppliers are more than ready to come together. This premier mold manufacturing event will make it happen.

Verisurf to Distribute Peel 3D Products

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

Verisurf has signed an agreement to become worldwide distributor of Peel 3D’s product line, which centers around versatile 3D scanners.

Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP is Scalable, Cloud-Based

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

Aptean Industrial Manufacturing ERP is a cloud-based software solution that gives users real-time visibility and control over manufacturing and business operations.

JM Performance's High Torque Retention Knobs Lower Chatter

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

JM Performance Products has launched a specially designed High Torque retention knob for V-Flange tooling that the company says reduces chatter and tool wear.

Five-Axis Grob G550T Tightens Cycle Times and Accuracies

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

The five-axis Grob G550T not only cuts cycle times and tooling costs for aluminum aerospace applications, but provides exacting accuracy for titanium and Inconel applications.

Aramco, ACI launch new center to develop, promote nonmetallic material use for construction

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Center of Excellence for Nonmetallic Building Materials to develop, disseminate and adopt consensus-based standards for concrete design, construction and materials.

Machinery Sales Co. Wins Kitamura Outstanding Achievement in Sales Award

| MoldMaking Technology

Despite limitations caused by COVID-19, team exceeded goals in unit sales, sales revenue and market share.

Combining AC and DC dielectric measurements for cure monitoring of composites

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Lambient Technologies advances dielectric analysis (DEA) for more reliable, affordable composites manufacturing.

Cadillac Blackwing Models Are First GM Cars Using Additive Manufacturing for Full-Scale Production

Peter Zelinski | Additive Manufacturing

Three functional components are 3D printed thanks to cost savings and design freedom. Layers lines on the shift knob signify this advance.

Férulas de polímeros y madera incursionan en los deportes

Ángela Andrea Castro | Plastics Technology México

Woodcast es un material ligero biodegradable de madera y de polímeros que se desarrolló para reemplazar los vendajes de yeso usados en los hospitales y que, gracias a su facilidad de moldeo con calor, ahora se utiliza en los deportes de alta competencia.

Acción de corte de Turbo 16, de Seco Tools, aumenta la vida útil de las herramientas

| Modern Machine Shop México

Seco Tools amplía su línea con Turbo 16, que ofrece una mayor longevidad de la herramienta y un aumento de la tasa de eliminación de material.

Compuestos ZD, de Tosaf, para fabricación de películas perladas de BOPP

| Plastics Technology México

Para la industria de embalajes y etiquetas, esta nueva línea de masterbatches perlados y perlados blancos proporciona a sus usuarios eficiencia y flexibilidad en producción.

Braided carbon fiber & resin transfer molding for complex composites

Jeff Sloan | CompositesWorld

Hawthorn Composites, a division of SpinTech Holdings Inc., reviews case studies of its high-value complex composites parts developed by deploying low-cost materials with resin transfer molding and novel manufacturing methods.

Probing Feedback Keeps CNC Machining On Track

Matt Danford | Modern Machine Shop

CNC machine tools that operate like self-contained, automated smart factories can be an introduction or an addition to digital manufacturing workflows.

Una nueva familia de rectificadores

Scott Francis | Products Finishing México

Dynapower anunció la salida al mercado de su nueva familia de rectificadores RapidX, que incluye rectificadores SCR prediseñados y SMPS refrigerados por aire.

Custom Tooling, Workholding Help Whip Rotors Into Shape

Derek Korn | Production Machining

Whipple Superchargers uses unique form tools and dead-length-collet workholding for its B-axis turn-mill enabling it to create more accurate rotors for its brand of engine power-adders.