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Haviland Celebrates 90 Years

| Products Finishing

Commemoration of the company’s founding in 1934 highlights its legacy and ongoing efforts to provide tailored chemical solutions for new and existing markets.

How to Overcome Cutting Tool Vibration

| MoldMaking Technology

Advanced indexable milling cutting tool design provides secure, predictable machining, increased metal removal rates, reduced cycle times and fast changeovers.

Register for IHEA’s Industrial Heating Decarbonization Summit

Lori Beckman | Products Finishing

The Summit is designed to assist everyone using heat technologies to understand and overcome important concerns and provide potential solutions as manufacturers plan for a sustainable future.

Horizon Aircraft provides update on technical flight testing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Positive progress during eVTOL prototype testing approaches full transition to forward flight, aids in final full-scale aircraft design for completion and testing in 2026.

ATA Industrial Group report evaluates the state of the global carbon fiber market

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Carbon fiber composites market report provides statistics, analyses and trends regarding 2023 demand in China and around the world.

Lilium looks to France to establish high-volume eVTOL production

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Lilium is keen to expand its industrial footprint through leveraging of France’s aerospace heritage and vast supplier base in aerospace and electrification, in preparation for the eVTOL aircraft market demand.

Plataine grows facility visibility, control with 3D Live Map launch

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Composites manufacturers are able to proactively track, manage and streamline production status and resources use via a holistic, real-time view of the production environment.

Gantry Machines Handle Diverse Machining Applications

| MoldMaking Technology

The Soraluce High Rail Gantry Machines offer high-speed cutting capabilities, high precision rates and handling of high-volume machining tasks for mold and die and other sectors.

Airbus finalizes Aerovel acquisition

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Per the agreement, Aerovel’s Flexrotor, a vertical takeoff and landing UAS aircraft, will provide enhanced and expanded mission capability offerings to Airbus customers.

NASF/AESF Foundation Research Project #120: Electrochemical Destruction of Perfluorooctanesulfonate in Electroplating Wastewaters – January – December 2023

| Products Finishing

This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers quarterly reporting for the year 2023 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The objective of this work is to utilize a cost-effective reactive electrochemical membrane (REM) for the removal of PFAS from synthetic electroplating wastewater. Discussed here are the oxidation of PFOA with three different catalysts, development of a method for detecting PFAS, as well as work on 6:2-fluorotelomersulfonic acid (6:2 FTS) and electrodeposited bismuth/tin oxide catalysts.

Wittmann Shifts Some Production out of Austria

Tony Deligio | Plastics Technology

Manufacture of several core products, including specific models and sizes of injection molding machines, automation and auxiliaries have shifted out of Austria and into Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Sowa Shrink-Fit Machine Conserves Toolholder Life

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

The ShrinkSmart shrink-fit machine’s Smart Coil assesses the distinct resistance of each toolholder to prevent excessive heating.

How to Make Data Work for Mold Productivity and Performance

Christina Fuges | MoldMaking Technology

The use of digital workflows improves the impact of mold design libraries, conformal cooling and machine learning.

NASF/AESF Foundation Research Project #121: Development of a Sustainability Metrics System and a Technical Solution Method for Sustainable Metal Finishing - 15th Quarterly Report

| Products Finishing

This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the twelfth quarter of project work (October-December 2023) at Wayne State University in Detroit. In this period, our main effort focused on the development of a set of Digital Twins (DTs) using the Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) technology with application on parts rinsing simulation.