Jet Tools Lathe Enhances Safety, Performance

| Modern Machine Shop

Jet Tools expands its turning lineup with gear-head engine lathes and large-spindle bore lathes designed to provide smooth operation, scalability and built-in safety features.

Nagel Deep-Hole Drilling Systems Provide Highly Flexible Performance

| Production Machining

Nagel’s customizable deep-hole drilling machines are fully customizable and can be configured either as stand-alone systems or as fully integrated turnkey solutions.

Owens Corning Glass Reinforcements business is now operating as The Original Composites Co.

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Following finalization of Glass Reinforcements sale, the new name clearly honors where Owens Corning came from and where the company is headed.

Platinum Tooling Live Tools Support Higher RPM

| Modern Machine Shop

Platinum Tooling Technologies Inc. expands its line of Heimatec live tools for the Haas BMT turret, offering driven and static tools capable of higher rpm operation.

Through Wind, Snow and World News

Tony Deligio | Plastics Technology

PTXPO’s fourth edition came off despite wild weather and world events.

Sidel desarrolla botella retornable de PET para agua

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Sidel lanzó una botella retornable de PET para agua sin gas, más ligera y compatible con reciclaje botella a botella.

GA-EMS industrializing SiC/SiC and other CMC via MAITrX facility

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Developing materials used across General Atomics, this lab is onshoring nuclear-grade SiC fiber, innovating SiC foam and promoting collaboration to accelerate CMC production and commercialization.

Trillium raises $13 million to begin bio-based acrylonitrile demo plant operations, design of commercial version

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Project Falcon demonstrates technical performance of drop-in, plant-based ACN technology, the ability to execute at industrial scale and a significant advancement toward commercialization efforts.

MMT Tech Days: Mold Design Fundamentals: A Framework for Smarter Decisions

| MoldMaking Technology

This webinar breaks mold design down into its three essential pillars — Flow, Thermal and Mechanical. Each pillar will be covered by four leading mold builders, with each sharing their decision-making strategies for comparing common design choices, from gating and cooling to steel selection and ejection strategies.

Fundamentals of Designing the Optimal Cooling System

| MoldMaking Technology

The right mold components can help improve mold cooling and thereby produce higher-quality parts.

Filtro FCS de Fimic para reciclaje de plásticos

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

En Plastics Recycling LATAM, Fimic introduce el FCS Filter, una tecnología diseñada para mejorar la filtración de masa fundida en materiales altamente contaminados.

Stop Guessing. Start Designing Smarter.

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

Experts reveal how understanding molds as physics-driven systems — balancing flow, thermal and mechanical forces — enables smarter design decisions and better performance.

Engel Expands Wintec All-Electric Line Globally, Provides 2-Platen Updates

Tony Deligio | Plastics Technology

Engel began a global rollout of its Wintec brand e-win all-electric press and presented a streamlined portfolio of its duo and t-win two-platen machines.

Recubrimiento AlCrN para herramientas de tallado de engranes

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

Star SU incorpora el recubrimiento Alcrona EVO a su portafolio de herramientas de corte de engranes para producción en alto volumen.

ChemQuest Expands Strategy Bench with Latest Director Addition

| Products Finishing

Scott Reams’ specialty chemicals expertise and work in related areas will support ChemQuest’s Operational Excellence and Technology Development business pillars.

Nuevo León muestra señales de recuperación manufacturera

| Modern Machine Shop México

El indicador de nuevos pedidos encabezó la mejora de marzo, con un avance de 6.3 puntos que lo llevó nuevamente a zona de expansión.

Making (and Re-Making) with Large-Format Additive Manufacturing

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

OEM and social enterprise re:3D develops large-format 3D printers in the U.S. with a focus on sustainability, upgradability and enabling economic independence anywhere.

APR presenta herramientas para evaluar reciclabilidad de envases plásticos

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

En Plastics Recycling LATAM 2026, la Asociación de Recicladores de Plástico (APR) destaca su Guía APR Design y su herramienta de evaluación, que permiten optimizar el diseño de empaques plásticos y asegurar su compatibilidad con los sistemas de reciclaje.  

PCCL, Isovolta win Styrian Innovation Prize for vitrimer-based prepregs

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Austrian-based Polymer Competence Center Leoben and Isovolta win regional award for achieving economic and large-scale production of recyclable, vitrimer-based composites.

NASA, Boeing advance TTBW research in wind tunnel test

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The transonic truss-braced wing concept, originating from aeronautics-supported research and NASA and Boeing engineers, continue to shift this wing design from an idea to practical reality.

EATC releases comprehensive thermoplastic composites market study

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Developments, trends and prospects for long and continuous fiber TPC provide a systematic overview of the European market.

RVmagnetics Defence DemoKit equips defense composites with real-time structural sensing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

SNAPSHOT: Powered by ultra-thin MicroWire sensors, the Kit provides contactless monitoring of critical parameters with zero material strength loss, with custom proof-of-concept testing in-house.