México e Italia potenciarán negocios en los sectores naval, aeroespacial y metalmecánico

| Modern Machine Shop México

Más de 300 empresas italianas y mexicanas participaron en el Foro Empresarial México-Italia y acuerdan trabajar en sectores como el naval, aeroespacial y metalmecánico, entre otros.

Versa-Slide: nueva solución modular de Progressive

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Progressive Components lanza Versa-Slide, un sistema de acciones laterales preensambladas que agiliza el diseño, armado y mantenimiento de moldes.  

Zoller Opens Registration for Toolroom of the Year Competition

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

Zoller’s Toolroom of the Year competition highlights companies that exemplify operational excellence through the strategic implementation of the company’s solutions.

Some (Don’t) Like It Hot: Overcoming Thermochromism Challenges in Plastics Manufacturing

| Plastics Technology

A new means of effectively testing thermochromism’s impact on color in plastics enables accurate measurements without time-consuming cooling.

Precisión y rendimiento en rectificado CNC

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

United Grinding North America presenta máquinas de rectificado CNC diseñadas para ofrecer precisión y repetibilidad en operaciones de rectificado cilíndrico y afilado de herramientas.

Sculpteo Launches High-Performance Material for Industrial 3D Printing

Jann Bond | Additive Manufacturing

Sculpteo launches PA12 S, a high-performance material for industrial applications

Keeping the Powder Line Oil-Free

| Products Finishing

It’s a “crude” awakening when oil is found in a powder coating line’s compressed air. Here are some tips from Parker Ionics to remove the oil.

Pic of the Week: Precision DED

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

Can directed energy deposition (DED) enable precision akin to laser powder bed fusion? This week’s pic offers one example. 

Expansión de la producción manufacturera mexicana en marzo de 2025

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

En marzo de 2025, el valor de la producción de los productos manufacturados en México fue de 985,663 millones de pesos.

How Precision Blanks Help This Aerospace Shop Build Better Parts

Eli Plaskett | Modern Machine Shop

Internal stress in thin metal parts can lead to warped components and scrapped work. Matrix Machine found a better way by sourcing precision-ground blanks from TCI Precision Metals. Here’s how that decision freed up capacity and made critical parts more predictable.

How to Assess and Control Surface Texture Quality

| MoldMaking Technology

Surface texture measurement offers better methods for describing plastic surfaces.

Composites end markets: Energy (2025)

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

Despite political and supply chain challenges, renewable and nuclear energy continue to grow in use. Composite materials enable current and future energy technologies across sectors.

Tech-Fab Europe publishes LCA study on glass fiber fabrics

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The association’s study reveals the benefits of strengthening European supply chain for glass fiber fabrics to help decarbonize in line with EU net-zero targets.

HRC highlights automotive material innovation, scalable manufacturing and sustainable systems

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The composites company is meeting the transition to electrification and vehicle lightweighting via hybrid monocoques, use of thermoplastic composites and carbon fiber and recycling.

Damen, CEAD explore composite 3D printing potential via HDPE Workboat project

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Dutch innovators collaborate to investigate large-format 3D printing for functional shipbuilding at the recently opened Maritime Application Center.

RWC offers material property data calculators for ecommerce products

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Rock West has published theoretical material properties and launched several reference calculators for estimating the performance of rods and tubes offered on its website.

RJG Adds iMFLUX Technology to Injection Molding Offerings

Angela Osborne | Plastics Technology

RJG Inc. will supply and support iMFLUX’s pre-engineering, installation and service for all hardware and software components.

Optimized End Mills and Milling System Developed for Heat-Resistant Materials

Angela Osborne | MoldMaking Technology

Ceratizit’s OptiLine solid carbide end mills were developed for high-performance machining for a wide range of materials, applications and strategies, and are available in four-, five-, six- and seven-flute options.

PET (Tereftalato de polietileno): propiedades, procesamiento y reciclaje

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

El PET (tereftalato de polietileno) es un polímero termoplástico que se caracteriza por su resistencia, claridad y ligereza. Es esencial en diversas aplicaciones gracias a su versatilidad, durabilidad y reciclabilidad. En este artículo, exploramos la historia, las propiedades, la producción, las aplicaciones y el futuro de este material esencial.

Fresas de roscado Carmex FSH: precisión en materiales duros y resistentes al calor

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

La serie FSH de fresas de roscado de carburo sólido, de Carmex Precision Tools, están diseñadas para un fresado rápido y preciso en materiales duros y resistentes al calor.

Tariffs, HTS Codes and Your Company’s Scope

Miles Free | Production Machining

Scope creep has become a tsunami!
#economics

At DI Labs, Mass Customization Is a Necessary Step on the Way to Additive Manufacturing’s Production Future

Stephanie Hendrixson | Plastics Technology

The Minnesota company is applying lessons learned from its custom automotive aftermarket business, Threedom, to advance processes and workflows for AM at scale.