Pic of the Week: Large, Hybrid Milling Cutter with Complex Internal Coolant Channels

Derek Korn | Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing offers various benefits for cutting tool manufacturers such as reduced tool weight and the creation of complex internal coolant channels that cannot be produced via traditional CNC machining methods.

Automated RTM, SQRTM enhance aerospace composites serial production transition

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CAMX 2025: Coexpair, in partnership with Radius Engineering, combines equipment development and fabrication with engineering of composite parts, demonstrated in its European customer support, deliveries.

Hainbuch presentará cambio automático de mordazas e IQ clamping

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

EMO: La empresa exhibirá soluciones de sujeción automatizada e inteligente para mecanizado flexible en series pequeñas y medianas.

Top 3 productos mexicanos con mayor potencial de exportación en 2029

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

En el episodio 38 de Industry News le informamos sobre los 3 productos con mayor potencial de exportación de México, estimados para el 2029.    

Palsgaard lanza aditivo vegetal para PE y PP

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Palsgaard presenta Einar 987, aditivo vegetal para PE y PP que mejora el proceso de polimerización y reemplaza ingredientes cuestionados.  

SPS Atlanta 2025 Addresses Manufacturing Challenges With Automation-Focused Solutions, Dynamic Education Programs

Chris Pasion | MoldMaking Technology

Taking place September 16-18, 2025, at the Georgia World Congress Center, the U.S. debut of Smart Production Solutions (SPS Atlanta) offers a focused platform to drive automation forward and reinforce American industrial strength.
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Nuevo impulso al desarrollo de la industria de autopartes

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

La Corporación Financiera Internacional, la Industria Nacional de Autopartes y la Secretaría de Economía firmaron acuerdo de cooperación y anuncian nueva fase del Programa de Desarrollo de Proveedores.

Feddem To Introduce Laboratory Twin, Novel Pelletizing Tool

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

Compact lab twin and new tool to minimize die residue to debut at K 2025.  

Robotic Machine-Tending Ideas for Production Shops

Derek Korn | Production Machining

Here are five examples of how machine shops have benefited in various ways by adding robots to tend machine tools.

Wittmann Plans 7 Injection Molding Machine Displays at K 2025

Tony Deligio | Plastics Technology

MacroPower and EcoPower debut with micro, closure, 2K, LSR, vertical molding and more.

CARBOWAVE studies microwave and plasma-induced carbonization for carbon fiber production

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The European research consortium is holistically exploring the process’ improvement and commercialization for more energy-efficient, affordable materials manufacturing.

IACMI’s Chad Duty presents SPE ACCE 2025 third keynote

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Duty will share the ways in which IACMI, over its 10-year history, has led to successful and commercialized composites technologies in the automotive industry.

Zoltek celebrates 50 years serving the carbon fiber industry

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Since its founding in 1957 by Zsolt Rumy, Zoltek has grown its global carbon fiber capacity into what it is today, and is looking ahead to the next five decades under Toray leadership.

Airbus completes A350F freight horizontal stabilizer in Spain

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Like other parts of the large cargo aircraft, the HTP is composite, to be fitted to the first A350F aircraft for 2026-2027 flight tests.

Carbon fiber boosts dry-processed battery performance

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

ORNL researchers have found that dry-processed films incorporating long carbon fibers improves strength and conductivity for more affordable lithium-ion battery electrodes.
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CAD/CAM Software Streamlines the Moldmaking Process

Angela Osborne | MoldMaking Technology

Eastec 2025: TopSolid’s TopSolid'Mold CAD digital design and manufacturing platform combines 3D CAD and CAM tools to enhance mold design, tooling and manufacturing.

AEC Rolls Out Two Compact Desiccant Wheel Dryers

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

Products aimed at low-throughput processes such as medical molding and extrusion.  

Severance Countersinks Reduce Machining Vibrations

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

Severance countersinks feature staggered cutting edges, which inhibit the occurrence of resonant (harmonic) vibration.

Coperion's Latest in High-Performance Compounding Extruders

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

At K 2025, Coperion will display two representatives of its high-performance compounding extruder offerings: ZSK 58 Mc18 and STS 35 Mc11.

Critical Success Factors for Precision Micro Drilling

| Production Machining

Component miniaturization requires smaller features with tighter tolerances, often in difficult-to-machine materials.

AI's Achilles Heel

Stephanie Hendrixson | Manufacturing Connected

The rise of artificial intelligence parallels that of cobots and other “autonomous” technologies. But even AI can’t do everything. 

Supertec Machinery Grinders Enhance Precision Grinding Efficiency

Chris Pasion | Production Machining

Supertec Machinery’s Mini Genie CNC cylindrical grinder and EGM-80CNC universal ID/OD grinder, designed for space-limited manufacturing environments.