AMPP Center Assists AM Users in Development, Sourcing of Advanced Materials
Jessica Pompili | Additive Manufacturing
LIFT’s Advanced Metallic Production and Processing (AMPP) Center is managing the testing, handling, processing and production of advanced materials for both defense and client-centered applications in additive manufacturing.
Plastics Summit 2025 reunirá a líderes globales en Lisboa
Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México
El 6 de octubre se celebrará el Plastics Summit 2025 en Lisboa, con expertos globales que debatirán sobre sostenibilidad, economía circular y nuevas regulaciones.
AkzoNobel Enhances Durability of Historic KC-135 Aircraft
| Products Finishing
AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings supports the full refinish of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker with high-performance systems, featuring a heritage tail design for the 128th Air Refueling Wing.
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.
Reifenhäuser Rolls Out Water-Cooled Blown-Film Line
Jim Callari | Plastics Technology
Aimed at barrier applications requiring more puncture resistance, transparency or thermoformability.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.