Planetary centrifugal mixers precision mix, degas composites and epoxies

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CAMX 2025: Thinky USA provides simultaneous, closed-container mixing technologies that are repeatable and scalable for multi-part systems, filled epoxies and fiber-reinforced compounds.

Craftsman Cribsheet No. 141: 10 Things We Learned at Horn Technology Days 2025

Miles Free | Production Machining

Horn's Technology Days 2025 event was far more than an open house.

Reel Power Delivers 'World's Largest' Plastic Pipe Coiler

| Plastics Technology

Machine is capable of handling coil weights up to 32,000 lbs and pipe diameters up to 8 in.  

Siemens presentará el Sinumerik Machine Tool Robot y su visión de la manufactura digital en EMO 2025

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

EMO: La empresa destaca avances en robótica de precisión y control CNC con inteligencia artificial.

Materials portfolio elevates composites scalability, sustainability

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CAMX 2025: Scalable, eco-conscious mobility is Mitsubishi Chemical Group’s strategic focus, which it highlights through a display of materials from PAN precursor to prepregs, and an EV battery case demonstrator.

ECOCE y Greenback impulsan reciclaje de empaques flexibles

Suset Carlos Campos | Plastics Technology México

Greenback implementa planta de reciclaje químico en México en colaboración con ECOCE para dar valor a empaques plásticos flexibles posconsumo.

UTAS-NOVA invierte 930 millones de pesos en nueva planta en Aguascalientes

| Modern Machine Shop México

En la planta de UTAS-NOVA se fabricarán anualmente seis millones de luces exteriores, faros antiniebla y luces de freno, así como medio millón de faros delanteros y traseros.

DLR closes the loop in fiber-reinforced 3D printing with EmpowerAX, SchallFTP projects

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Building on its work in EmpowerAX, the DLR and partners now aim to create a standardized, certifiable value chain that turns fiber waste into consistently reinforced thermoplastic filaments for 3D printing.

Base Materials announces DNV type approval across entire Subtec portfolio

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Syntactic buoyancy material range is now backed by regulatory and safety standard assurances for use in 2,000 to 11,500-meter subsea depths.

Kautex Textron wins BEV battery housing contract with automotive OEM

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Order for full BEV lower battery housing unit will incorporate Kautex’s thermoplastic composite (TPC) Pentatonic battery enclosure product, which enhances thermal management and reduces vehicle weight.

Consumer goods manufacturer orders Hexagon Agility CNG fuel systems

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Following successful piloting of X15N engine natural gas trucks, this new fleet of 60 day cab and sleeper trucks will benefit from Hexagon’s CNG systems with Type 4 tanks.

Amazement Introduces New Atomization Service for R&D

Jann Bond | Additive Manufacturing

This on-demand service is designed to provide researchers with cost-effective, small-batch production of high-quality, custom metal powders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

MSS Relocates to New Facility in Nashville

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

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

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.