Making Machine Monitoring Matter

Julia Hider | Modern Machine Shop

After seven years of inconsistent use, Pindel Global Precision needed to rethink how it used machine monitoring. From there, one change led to a 35% increase in utilization on its Swiss-type machines in three months.

Lightweight, load-bearing fasteners enhance composites assembly

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CAMX 2025: Perlane presents fastening solutions like Optisert and Onsert, and services that have supported composites manufacturers and OEMs for more than 40 years.

Bentley Motors Makes Available Custom Paint Finish Option

| Products Finishing

Bentley Motors Ltd. unveils Ombre by Mulliner, a handcrafted paint fade technique available in three color combinations for a striking visual transition.

Ultrasonic welding for in-space manufacturing of CFRTP

Stewart Mitchell | CompositesWorld

Agile Ultrasonics and NASA trial robotic-compatible carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic ultrasonic welding technology for space structures.

Borealis ampliará producción de polipropileno HMS

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Borealis anunció que reforzará su planta en Alemania con una línea para producir polipropileno HMS reciclable, ligero y de alto rendimiento.  

Struktol RP 17 and RP 53 Additives for Odor Control

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

Additives engineered to optimize processing, improve quality and facilitate increase in recycled content. 

Diplomado en inyección suma a Hasco como aliado clave

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

El programa de Arburg y el Tec de Monterrey fortalece la formación en plásticos con la incorporación de Hasco y su módulo de diseño de moldes.  

Getting You to Think in Plastic First

| MoldMaking Technology

For this summer school basics series, Pellet to Part explores each stage of the plastic injection molding process. The final step is to take the lessons learned from this series and figure out how to impart them to the future moldmaking/molding workforce.
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Finding Joy in Relationships and Empowering Employees

Lori Beckman | Products Finishing

The power of people-focused leadership is evident in this Champion of the Industry’s passion for his powder coating business and the industry as a whole.  

Schwanog Tooling Lineup Provides Productive Machining of Precision Parts

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

Schwanog’s milling and grooving lineup includes efficient, custom solutions for a wide range of applications.

Fresa de acabado SK90/EK90: alta precisión y mayor productividad

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

EMO: Avantec presentará en EMO su nueva solución de rimado que mejora la calidad superficial y permite mayores avances.

COMCE: Exportaciones mexicanas a Estados Unidos podrían crecer 2.6% en tres años

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

El COMCE señaló que México tiene la posibilidad de ampliar su participación en el mercado estadounidense y alcanzar hasta 19% de las importaciones de ese país en los próximos tres años.

Material solutions reduce critical weight, address challenges for aircraft development

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CAMX 2025: Greene Tweed highlights lightweight composite innovations such as Xycomp DLF for aerospace and advanced air mobility.

Registration opens for CW Tech Days: High-Temperature Composite Solutions

Scott Francis | CompositesWorld

CW Tech Days: High-Temperature Composite Solutions for Defense and Space Applications will take place Oct. 16, 2025.

Celebrate innovation during National Composites Week

| CompositesWorld

National Composites Week 2025 is next week! No matter your role in the industry — CEOs, researchers, engineers, educators, students — make sure to join the movement to explore, learn and celebrate the incredible role of composites.

K Offers Guided Tours on Hot Topics

Tony Deligio | Plastics Technology

K 2025 offers free thematic guided tours in English and German on topics like digitalization, materials, sustainability and next-generation workers. 

LK Metrology Surface Roughness Probe Enhances Component Inspection

Chris Pasion | Production Machining

LK Metrology’s Surfacers SRP high-resolution probe is designed for seamless surface analysis within CNC measuring cycles on CMMs.

Mazak Achieves Production Milestone, Announces Plans to Open New Technical Center

Chris Pasion | Production Machining

Mazak Corp. celebrates the completion of its 40,000th machine at the Mazak iSmart Factory in Florence, Kentucky, showcasing advanced manufacturing and digital integration.

Celdas automatizadas con inteligencia artificial

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

EMO: Stäubli mostrará soluciones robóticas intuitivas y flexibles para la automatización de procesos posteriores al mecanizado.

Tendencia al alza: producción de vehículos eléctricos e híbridos en México

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

Entre enero y julio de 2025, la producción total de vehículos eléctricos e híbridos aumentó un 63.8 % en comparación con el mismo período del año anterior.

La inteligencia artificial optimiza la celda de inyección

| Plastics Technology México

Haitian México impulsa la adopción de inteligencia artificial en el moldeo por inyección, con soluciones que mejoran la eficiencia energética, reducen scrap y automatizan decisiones clave en planta.

MMX 2025 Marks Expansion of America Makes Mission, Placing AM in Context

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

The manufacturing institute remains dedicated to additive manufacturing, but speakers emphasized AM’s utility to enable the greater promise of adaptive manufacturing, supply chain security and more. Six observations.
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