Milling Line Offers Plunging, Ramping Capabilities

Fiona Lawler | MoldMaking Technology

Kyocera SGS Precision Tools highlights its Z-Carb XPR end mill line with plunging and ramping capabilities to enable more aggressive tool paths and a wider variety of roughing and finishing techniques while still maintaining precision and durability.  

United Grinding Signs Agreement to Acquire GF Machining Solutions

Jessica Pompili | Production Machining

United Grinding has signed an agreement to acquire the GF Machining Solutions division of Georg Fischer AG, aiming to establish a global presence in ultra-precision machining.

Post Cure: High-temperature CFC fixtures, racking systems for precise, efficient heat treatment

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Americarb serves ultra-high temperature carbon fiber, graphite and carbon-carbon product needs with products like CFC modular composite grids used as fixtures and racking systems.

Generational Quality: Balancing Tradition, Innovation and Continuous Improvement

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

Q&A with Corey Fox, an MMT EAB member and Operations Manager at Accede Mold and Tool.

Mercedes-Benz abre planta pionera para el reciclaje de baterías

Ángela Andrea Castro | Modern Machine Shop México

Mercedes-Benz inauguró en Alemania la primera planta de reciclaje de baterías en Europa, empleando un proceso mecánico-hidrometalúrgico que logra una tasa de recuperación superior al 96 % y una operación neutra en CO2.

Using Solvents to Your Advantage

| Products Finishing

With so many solvent variations it can be different to choose the ones you need for your liquid coating process. In this helpful Products Finishing Ask the Expert article, Don Boespflug of Sherwin-Williams discusses the considerations you should keep in mind when selecting a solvent. 

Hurco Slant-Bed Lathe Features Live Tooling Capabilities

Jessica Pompili | Production Machining

Hurco’s TM8MYi slant-bed lathe comes equipped with a Renishaw swing-down tool setter and a bi-directional, servo-driven live tool.

EOS amplía su portafolio de materiales pensando en los fabricantes de moldes

Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México

EOS expande su portafolio de soluciones de manufactura aditiva con la EOS M 290 1kW y EOS M 290-2, diseñadas para producción industrial en una variedad de materiales como aluminio y titanio.

Nefab Opens Moldmaking Facility in Michigan

Tony Deligio | Plastics Technology

Nefab’s says its new 19,000-square-foot Polyflex facility will enable it design, prototype and manufacture tooling for its returnable and reusable automotive logistics packaging products.

Rego-Fix Opens Manufacturing Technology Center in Indiana

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The 12,000-square-foot Center for Machining Excellence houses a wide range of technology and serves as a hub for industry innovation that is accessible to manufacturers and industry thought leaders worldwide.

Borealis y Pipelife desarrollan tuberías para infraestructura de agua

Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México

Borealis, en colaboración con Pipelife, lanza tuberías de presión de agua potable hechas con más del 90 % de polietileno reciclado químicamente, garantizando calidad y sostenibilidad.

4 Rules for Running a Successful Machine Shop

| Production Machining

Take time to optimize your shop’s structure to effectively meet demand while causing the least amount of stress in the shop.

Nearshoring y tecnología: claves para el sector plástico en 2025

María Natalia Ortega Leyva | Plastics Technology México

Tendencias como el nearshoring, digitalización y sostenibilidad destacarán en la industria del plástico en 2025. Nuestra Guía de Proveedores le permite conectar con compañías destacadas y mantenerse actualizado.

Vericut AI-Powered Tools Enhance Software Accessibility

Jessica Pompili | Modern Machine Shop

Vericut Intelligence and Vericut Assistant aim to simplify the way users can interact with and gain knowledge from Vericut’s software products.

Expanded Line of ‘Super’ Soft TPEs for Medical Devices

Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology

Kraiburg TPE has expanded its Thermolast M series of TPE compounds by additional hardness degrees.

SW-Machines México inaugura planta de construcción de centros de mecanizado en San Luis Potosí

Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México

SW-Machines México inaugura sus nuevas instalaciones, que incluyen un espacio para el ensamblaje de centros de maquinado, un cuarto de herramientas, un laboratorio de medición y un almacén de partes y refacciones.

Through-Coolant System Cuts Nickel-Alloy Cycle Times by 70%

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

Decker Machine Works recently adopted Rego-Fix’s reCool through-coolant system for ER collets, reducing the cycle times on a nickel alloy job by 70%.

Quick Turnaround is Key for Architectural Coating Shop

Lori Beckman | Products Finishing

This California metal fabricator and coater focuses on fast turnaround and streamlining its processes with 40 years of experience in the construction industry.

L.S. Starrett Vision System Increases Measurement Speed

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The Starrett AVR400 offers full CNC capabilities including XYZ positioning as well as zoom and telecentric lens options.

Wichita’s NIAR delivers fiber metal laminate test panel to FAA

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Aluminum and fiberglass fuselage panel is one of five panels that NIAR and partners are designing, fabricating and testing to assess emerging metallic structure technologies.

Mikrosam robotic filament winding cell to aid Cidetec composites projects

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Delivery of the single-spindle robotic setup with an ATP head will advance the R&D organization’s work in CUBIC, GENEX and Carbo4power initiatives targeting sustainable composites development.

Boeing machinists approve third proposed contract, end strike

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The labor standoff, the first in 16 years, is the latest setback in a volatile year for the aerospace company.