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SyBridge Technologies Completes Active Industrial Solutions Acquisition
| MoldMaking Technology
Transaction to create a transformative company to better meet customer needs in today’s global tooling industry.
AeroVironment secures $5.9 million Puma 3 AE UAS contract award
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
Composite-intensive tactical UAV, offering surveillance and reconnaissance in maritime and land operations, to be delivered to European allied nation.
Let’s Finish Closing the Quoting Gap
Mark Albert | Modern Machine Shop
Sharing accurate, timely and actionable data is the key to an effective, respectful relationship between a machining job shop and the subcontracting finishing shop. Software that streamlines the quoting process can make this happen.
Inside Stellantis Advance Color and Materials
Gary S. Vasilash | Products Finishing
La Shirl Turner, head of the Stellantis North America Advance Color and Materials Department, talks about how she got there and what they do in one of the auto industry’s most imaginative creator of colors.
Self-Contained Portable Air-Cooled Chiller Line Launched
| Plastics Technology
Frigel’s MRS line marks the company’s first foray into air-cooled portable chillers.
Precision Machining Technology Review: Turning Machines
Angela Osborne | Production Machining
Production Machining’s March Showcase includes Tsugami/Rem Sales, Expand Machinery, NexTurn Swiss Machine, Mazak and Romi Machine Tools.
Inversión extranjera directa en la fabricación de productos metálicos durante 2020
Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México
En el periodo enero-diciembre de 2020 aumentó la Inversión Extranjera Directa para el Maquinado de Piezas y Fabricación de Tornillos con relación al mismo periodo de 2019.
Centro de mecanizado vertical GenMill 4024 para corte de alta resistencia
| Modern Machine Shop México
La rigidez del bastidor de hierro fundido procesado Meehanite del centro de mecanizado vertical GenMill 4024 de Expand Machinery proporciona una plataforma de corte de alta resistencia para amortiguar la vibración y tasas eficientes de remoción de metal.
Automated weaving system targets high-performance, high-volume applications
Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld
Startup WEAV3D Inc.’s technology produces highly tunable, woven lattice reinforcements for cost-effective, high-volume automotive composites and precast concrete applications.
Additive manufacturing/compression molding technology for next-generation composites
Jeff Sloan | CompositesWorld
9T Labs’ deposition process places continuous carbon fiber only where necessary to save material, reduce waste, and more precisely control the structure of preformed composites.
Controlled Containment System Enclosures
| Products Finishing
HEMCO’s controlled containment system (CCS) enclosures are engineered to safely contain and control airborne particulate to and from sampling procedures.
‘First’ Carbon Fiber Smartphone Developed by German Startup
Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology
Lanxess Tepex dynalite 208 TPU is the matrix material for Carbon Mobile’s ultra-thin and extremely light smartphone.
#electronics
Pure Loops Shredder-Extruder Delivers Impressive Recycling of Challenging Production Waste
Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology
Erema’s Pure Loop technology can efficiently handle thin-walled HDPE drip tapes and HDPE irrigation pipes.
Antimicrobial Based on Elemental Zinc Reduces Coronavirus on Surfaces by Up to 99%
Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology
Parx Materials’ Saniconcentrate expected to be a strong and safe tool in preventing the future spread of viruses.
The Federal Reserve’s Blunt Tools for Managing Interest Rates Lack the Precision to Achieve Post-COVID Economic Goals
| Gardner Intelligence
The last 25 years of data of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Fed Funds rate, corporate loan rates, inflation and economic growth testify to the complexities of the modern economy. The data reviewed in this piece provide recent examples of just how unpredictable the economy can be and just how little control the Fed has when trying to construct a particular economic outcome.
#economics
Carbon Offers Lattice-Generating Design Tech
Gary S. Vasilash | Additive Manufacturing
The design software is said to accelerate the time from "idea to design."
Sistema de pintura Delfleet One, de PPG, fue aprobado por Daimler Truck
| Products Finishing México
Daimler Truck North America aprobó el sistema de pintura Delfleet One, de PPG, para reparaciones de garantía y posventa en sus camiones Freightliner y Western Star.
Bond Building and Blitz Programs
Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology
It’s relationship and experience and not shop size that allows the Enterprise Mold team to tackle some nontraditional mold projects—at least they are nontraditional for the shop’s Windsor location.
En México, botellas de PET son transformadas en escobas ecológicas
| Plastics Technology México
La pandemia y un tutorial en Youtube impulsaron a Roberto Rea Hernández a elaborar escobas a partir de botellas de PET y otros materiales reciclados.
NewStar Adhesives relocates to new Cartersville, Georgia, plant
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
The plant is designed to be scalable to meet the company's growth needs for years to come, and indicates the company’s expectations to grow more than 20% above its pre-pandemic levels in 2021.
Galco Industrial Electronics Appoints Allison Sabia as CEO
Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop
Galco Industrial Electronics has appointed Allison Sabio as its CEO. She was previously the company’s president and COO.
Brass Knuckle Spectrum Features Durable Anti-Fog Finish
Evan Doran | Products Finishing
Brass Knuckle’s Spectrum eye protection combines anti-fog protection with different lens colors to enhance productivity and safety in different conditions.