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Downstream Line for High-Precision Profiles
Jim Callari | Plastics Technology
NPE2024: System features calibration and cooling tables, haul-offs, cutting units and tilting tables.
Eliminating No-Value-Added Services Adds Value for Customers
Lori Beckman | Products Finishing
Answering questions about how to best meet customer needs led this Products Finishing Top Shop to stop using trucks to provide value-added services and instead, start offering in-house solutions.
Lithoz Establishes Japanese Technology Network for 3D-Printed High-Performance Ceramics
Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing
As One, Mitsui Kinzoku and Yugyōkuen Ceramics have chosen Lithoz as a technology provider in driving growth and advancement in the Japanese additive manufacturing community.
ABB Opens Expanded Manufacturing Facility in Michigan
Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop
The company has expanded its Auburn Hills facility with a 30% increase in facility space.
Smart Granulator Control Integrates Size-Reduction Systems, Enables Predictive and Knife Maintenance
Matt Stonecash | Plastics Technology
NPE 2024: Conair’s New SG Control is available for its Viper Granulators
The Cut Scene: The Finer Details of Large-Format Machining
Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop
Small details and features can have an outsized impact on large parts, such as Barbco’s collapsible utility drill head.
Sandvik Coromant Parting Tool Provides Improved Surface Quality
Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop
CoroCut QD Y-axis parting tools feature upgraded blades with no Y offset, providing easier programming and increased stroke.
420 Stainless Steel Qualified With TrueShape 3D Printing Technology
| MoldMaking Technology
NPE2024: Mantle highlights its additive manufacturing technology designed for precision tooling, including the availability of 420 Stainless Steel.
Materialise adds three materials to enhance industrial 3D printing
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
Materialise expands additive manufacturing portfolio with early adoption of new HP PA 12S and integration of PA 11 and PA-CF materials.
Custom Core Pins Advance Long, Thin-Walled Part Molding
| MoldMaking Technology
NPE2024: Proprietary CraftAlloy pins highlighted by Crafts Technology offer molders high thermal conductivity and high hardness for lightweighting and reduced wall thickness of parts.
MCVE 3DFlaxtronics enables functional composites for printed electronics
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
The novel process produces intelligent, highly functional films embedded in flax fiber organosheets with a bio-sourced PA 10-10 resin to advance electronic parts and components development.
#electronics
Rocket Lab receives U.S. Space Force launch contract for DOD operations
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
The mission will be Rocket Lab’s third for the U.S. Space Force, further strengthening the use of its Electron carbon fiber composite rocket as a reliable and responsive small launch vehicle.
Airbus forecasts $45 billion commercial aircraft services market value for U.S. by 2042
Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld
Global Services Forecast suggests a 45% increase driven by a rise in annual air traffic, fleet growth and more digitally enabled and connected aircraft.
Powder Coating Aluminium Adhesion Failure
Rodger Talbert | Products Finishing
PF columnist Rodger Talbert offers advice for mitigating adhesion failure of powder coating on aluminum parts.
Reducing VOCs
| Products Finishing
Coating materials (paint and solvent) are one of the most significant sources of VOC generation. John Owed of Carlisle Fluid Technologies offers advice for reducing VOC consumption.
#regulations
Engel presenta en NPE sus máquinas de inyección eléctricas
María Natalia Ortega Leyva | Plastics Technology México
Engel destaca en NPE2024 su amplia gama de soluciones, desde la E-motion 50/30 TL para microinyección hasta la Duo 5160/770 WP Tech US para decoración.
Artificial Intelligence Manages Changing Conveying Conditions
Jim Callari | Plastics Technology
NPE2024: Billed as an industry first, controls autonomously adjusts the conveying system in real-time to move material under optimal conditions.
Product Finishing’s 2024 Top Shops Benchmarking Survey Deadline Approaches
Scott Francis | Products Finishing
Taking this year’s Products Finishing’s annual Top Shops Benchmarking Survey? Respondents are urged to complete the survey by April 30, 2024 in order to be considered as a qualifying top shop.
Fundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 5: Metallocenes
Michael Sepe | Plastics Technology
How the development of new catalysts—notably metallocenes—paved the way for the development of material grades never before possible.
ABB Opens Expanded Manufacturing Facility in Michigan
Chris Pasion | Production Machining
The company has expanded its Auburn Hills facility with a 30% increase in facility space.
Wintriss presentará consejos para la selección de sensores y configuración para la protección de troqueles
Eduardo Tovar | Modern Machine Shop México
La presentación pertenece a la “Serie de webinars sobre tecnología de estampado en México” para proporcionar a las empresas mexicanas información sobre las tendencias tecnológicas en la industria del formado de metales.
Mini Control Offers Central Conveying for Small Plants, Work Cells
Jim Callari | Plastics Technology
NPE2024: System supports vacuum conveying systems with up to three vacuum pumps and a maximum of up to 12 receivers.