Guill lanza cruceta de extrusión Micro Medical para tubería médica

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Guill Tool & Engineering presentó el Micro Medical, cruceta de cabezal de extrusión con ajuste de concentricidad de un solo punto mediante tornillos microfinos, con una precisión de 0.008" por revolución, para tubería médica de paredes delgadas y con dimensiones precisas de ID/OD.

Querétaro se consolida como hub aeronáutico con inversión de Safran

| Modern Machine Shop México

Con una inversión de 140 millones de dólares, Safran consolida a Querétaro como un hub aeronáutico estratégico para América, dentro de la red global MRO de Safran Aircraft Engines.

Buyers Are Turning to AI for Product Research. Does Your Marketing Put Your Brand in the Right Place?

| Gardner Web

The 2025 IBI survey asked industrial buyers about AI's role in their product research. The results reveal a buyer who is cautiously engaging but a shift is happening fast and marketers should be prepared.

Haidlmair Acquires TFM Slovakia

| Plastics Technology

The Austrian toolmaker acquired the Slovakia-based provider of high-precision CNC machining and component manufacturing.

VIDEO: A Decade of the MFFD

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

CW reporting on the MFFD — the largest welded thermoplastic composite aircraft structure ever built — is collected here, alongside new video coverage from Thermoforged.

PLASTICS respalda la continuidad del T-MEC para la industria

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

La Asociación de la Industria del Plástico emitió un pronunciamiento en favor de la revisión del T-MEC, destacando que México y Canadá representan compras anuales de plásticos estadounidenses por casi 34,000 millones de dólares combinados.

SABIC Compound Supports Circularity with 75% Post-Consumer Recycled Content

Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology

SABIC's LNP Elcrin DC0051RC1 is a PCR-based, carbon fiber-reinforced polycarbonate for consumer electronics housings and structural components.

Switch to Batch Mixer Yields 'Perfect Blends' for This Compounder

Jim Callari | Plastics Technology

Replacing a ribbon blender with a rotary batch mixer helped Polymer Resources cut blend times 30% and eliminate compounding contamination.

Tego Cycle y Tego PPA: aditivos de Evonik para plástico reciclado

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Evonik participó en Chinaplas 2026 con Tego Cycle, Tego Sorb y Tego PPA, aditivos para reciclaje mecánico y para el procesamiento sin PFAS, orientados al mercado chino en el contexto del 15.º Plan Quinquenal y la transición hacia materiales de menor huella ambiental.

ORECA Group Selects Siemens Software for Motorsport Racing Vehicle Development Programs

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

ORECA adopts Siemens’ Simcenter Star-CCM+ and Simcenter Optistruct to enhance computational fluid dynamics and composite optimization workflows.

Northstar RIBs Offers Range of RTM-Built Yacht Tenders

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

Northstar RIBs completes its Vega Lite lineup using its One-Shot RTM process, said to cut production time by 50% and result in a lighter, stronger boat.

Joby Aviation, Toyota Motor Launch Initial Phase of Strategic Alliance

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The long-time partners have formed a joint venture that will establish groundwork for commercial production and support Joby’s expansion long-term, with the central goal of bringing AAM on a broader scale.

Firefly Scales Composite Lunar Lander Production With $144M NASA Moon Mission Contract

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract will deliver next Blue Ghost mission in ≈2 years, helping to support NASA’s Moon Base and multiple Moon landings/year.

Schaeffler, Delair to Scale European Drone and UAS Production

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Industrial partnership will ramp up Delair drone and interceptor production in France with a line that can deliver ~100 units/day by November 2026.

CCIC, UNNC Continuous RCF Innovation Deliver Low-Cost, Low-Carbon CFRP 

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

ContRGF is a patented re-manufacturing process that converts fragmented rCF into endless, industry-standard continuous rovings and has been validated via real-world prototypes.

Touchstone Advanced Composites Tooling, Fabrication Supports Northrop YFQ-48A Talon Blue Wingman

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Cfoam carbon foam made for composite tooling design will enable rapid and adaptable engineering processes for the collaborative combat aircraft’s eventual full-scale production.

HydroGraph Launches Pre-Dispersed Fractal Graphene Paste

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Highly concentrated, stabilized graphene enables faster, more uniform dispersion into water-based formulations such as composite resin systems, eliminating a key barrier to commercial graphene adoption.

Bcomp Biocomposites Featured in BMW M Concept Neue Klasse Vehicle

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

BMW M’s Concept Neue Klasse features Bcomp ampliTex woven flax fiber composites used to manufacture the roof among other interior and exterior components.

Radia Advances WindRunner Program With Italy, Logistics Deals

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The developer of WindRunner, the cargo aircraft designed to transport oversized wind turbine blades and other outsized freight, renewed a government partnership in Italy and struck a new logistics collaboration with Blue Water Shipping.

Maynards Announces Two Auctions Featuring Manufacturing Assets From Natural Fiber Welding

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Two webcast auctions will feature coating and converting lines, winding systems, a 2022 double-belt press, hydraulic presses, testing equipment and microscopes.

Mikron Rotary Transfer Machine Supports Greater Part Diversity

| MoldMaking Technology

IMTS 2026: Mikron introduces the Multistar Next, a flexible CNC rotary transfer machine that combines high-speed production with full CNC control for electrical connector applications.

Haddy Scales AI-Enabled Microfactories with Siemens Xcelerator Platform

| Additive Manufacturing

Haddy, a U.S.-based additive manufacturing company, has adopted the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform to expand local, large-format additive manufacturing. Supply chain gains: Haddy’s approach shortens supply chains and enables a circular lifecycle for materials.