All-Digital CMM Automates Mold and Die Inspection

Angela Osborne | MoldMaking Technology

Hexagon’s Maestro coordinate measuring machine offers highly accurate and efficient inspections, handling complex geometries, detailed mold cores, cavities and tight-tolerance components.

Lightweighting Challenges: Coatings for Next-Gen Vehicles

Lori Beckman | Products Finishing

With demands on the auto industry to incorporate more lightweight structural materials in vehicles, coatings manufacturers are challenged with developing coatings that are compatible with a variety of different substrates.

Purging Compounds & Process Efficiency: Why They Must Work in Tandem To Improve Your Bottom Line

| Plastics Technology

More and more plastics processors are using commercial purging compounds to clean out their systems and help them switch from one product run to the next as efficiently as possible. But quality purging compounds aren’t cheap, nor are they a standalone solution.

Cutting 100 pounds, certification time for the X-59 nose cone

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Swift Engineering used HyperX software to remove 100 pounds from 38-foot graphite/epoxy cored nose cone for X-59 supersonic aircraft.

Juggerbot P3-44 Astra Enables Large Format Printing With PVC

Matt Stonecash | Additive Manufacturing

Process controls and safety systems specifically tailored for industrial printing with PVC.

In Case You Missed It: Top July Content

Sarah Barnett | MoldMaking Technology

Here’s a quick roundup of the top stories you might’ve missed while doing all the things that keep your shop running.

Pic of the Week: DED Replaces Hydraulic Pump Diffuser

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

After decades in service, the original cast part had severe wear and needed to be replaced. With no OEM option, wire directed energy deposition supplied the replacement.

Is AI Ready to Tackle High-Mix Grinding? Interview with GrayMatter Robotics Co-Founder

Brent Donaldson | Modern Machine Shop

GrayMatter Robotics co-founder Satyandra Kumar Gupta explains how the company’s AI-powered Scan&Grind system tackles weld blending, surface finishing and gate removal on metal parts — and why embodied intelligence is key to automating grinding in high-mix environments.

Performance resins, putties and structural adhesives

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CAMX 2025: Scott Bader illustrates its local and global materials supply availability backed by technical support, as well as a novel composite panels development with Armacell.

Sistema modular WinTwist de Ingersoll facilita el montaje en tornos suizos y multihusillo

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

El sistema WinTwist, de Ingersoll Cutting Tools, es una línea modular de herramientas de torneado que combina versatilidad en la configuración con facilidad de montaje.

MSS Relocates to New Facility in Nashville

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

Optical sorting manufacturer expands area for manufacturing, testing and demonstration.

Heller combina inteligencia artificial, automatización y precisión en EMO 2025

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

EMO: La firma alemana mostrará sus centros de mecanizado HF 3500 y F 5000 en celdas automatizadas, junto con soluciones de inteligencia artificial aplicadas a operación, servicio y planificación.

México, aliado estratégico en la sustitución de importaciones asiáticas

| Modern Machine Shop México

Según Eugenio Marín, CEO de FUMEC, México no solo puede sustituir sus propias importaciones asiáticas, sino también ayudar a Estados Unidos a reemplazar las suyas.

Sandvik Coromant Turning Adapters Enhance Vibration Control

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

Sandvik Coromant’s Silent Tools turning adapters provide improved internal turning at long overhangs.

Unilever y México Recicla apoyan acopiadores

Suset Carlos Campos | Plastics Technology México

Unilever y México Recicla renovaron un centro de acopio en Ecatepec y capacitaron a recicladores como parte de su programa “Enchúlame el Acopio”.

Baker Hughes to Acquire Chart Industries

| Valve Magazine

Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) and Chart Industries (NYSE: GTLS) (“Chart”) announced Tuesday they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Baker Hughes will acquire all outstanding shares of Chart’s common stock for $210 per share in cash, equivalent to a total enterprise value of $13.6 billion.

Xenia 3DF Materials for FFF Printing

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

Xenia filament materials for fused filament fabrication.

Architected graphene microfillers for lightweighting, reinforcement

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CAMX 2025: Dickinson presents its portfolio of “metamaterials,” looking to collaborate with industry partners to demonstrate their scaled-up mechanical capabilities and potential.

How Will Metal 3D Printing Change CNC Machining?

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing won’t necessarily take machining work, but it will reshape how machining happens and what machine shops look like. In this contributed column, CNC expert John Miller speaks to this tension and shares tips for manufacturers. 

Succeeding at Swiss & More: Our Top 10 June Articles

Cara Ready | Production Machining

The top 10 June articles featured tips on succeeding at Swiss, finding hidden talent within your organization, and more. 

MMT Chats: AI on the Shop Floor Now

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

In this MMT Chat, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mike Murakami, wire and sinker EDM lead hand at StackTeck Systems, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly—but powerfully—transforming moldmaking.

Xenia 3DF Materials for FFF Printing

Matt Stonecash | Additive Manufacturing

Xenia is introducing new filament materials for fused filament fabrication.